"[O]ne of those speculative fiction magazines that I get genuinely excited to read because the kind of stories they publish are always some concept or execution I've never seen before." -Alex Brown, reviewer for Tor.com
Reckoning 7, edited by Octavia Cade, Priya Chand, and Tim Fab-Eme, focuses on oceans and the global water cycle.
Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Elsie Andrewes, Priya Chand, Tim Fab-Eme, Octavia Cade, Nadine Aurora Tabing, Emily Alta Hockaday, Tehnuka, Naila Francis, C.G. Aubrey, Anastasia Jill, Dheepa R. Maturi, The Reverend Emilie Teresa Smith, E.C. Barrett, Rajiv Moté, Sam Claussen, Virginia Boudreau, Sera Gamble, Ruth Joffre, Ivy Raff, Colm O'Shea, Elizabeth Wilson Davies, Oyedotun Damilola Muees, Ejiro Elizabeth Edward, Aparna Paul, Amanda Yskamp, Maria S. Picone, Susan L. Lin, Micah Nemerever, Mo Usavage, Varun U. Shetty, L. Chan, Justine Norton-Kertson, Sara E. Palmer, Filomena Acosta, J.H. Lee, Floris M. Kleijne, Cristina Legarda, Dyani Sabin, Kelsea Yu, and T. K. Rex.
Ebook release: January 8, 2023 Print release: July 2023 Trade paper, perfect-bound. 256 pages, 65,000 words.
Contents Art Drua - Elsie Andrewes Sacral - Amanda Yskamp Essays Editorial - Priya Chand Editorial - Tim Fab-Eme Editorial - Octavia Cade A River Dance: Cauvery in Crisis - Dheepa R. Maturi From the River to the Sea - The Reverend Emilie Teresa Smith The Dream Catcher's Island - Ejiro Elizabeth Edward Fiction The Bright in the Gyre - Nadine Aurora Tabing Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea - Tehnuka A Predatory Transience - C.G. Aubrey Swimming Whole - E.C. Barrett The Air Will Catch Us - Rajiv Moté Icediver - Ruth Joffre A Song for the Selkies - Oyedotun Damilola Muees Little Apocalypses - Aparna Paul Inclement Weather - Susan L. Lin What It Means to Love a City - Mo Usavage The Sand Knows Its Way Home - L. Chan A Glass of You - Filomena Acosta Yellow River Burial - Floris M. Kleijne A Scarcity of Sharks - Kelsea Yu SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER - T. K. Rex
Poetry Lies You've Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch - Emily Alta Hockaday After encountering the grey whales in El Burbujon, Laguna Ojo de Liebre - Naila Francis Facebook Event: Run into the Category 5 Winds of a Woman Pretending to be a Hurricane - Anastasia Jill The Split-in-Half Lumberjacks - Sam Claussen Aftermath - Virginia Boudreau the world as it is - Sera Gamble In Memory of Thwaites Glacier - Ivy Raff Carbon Sink - Colm O'Shea Cantre'r Gwaelod - Elizabeth