Reckoning Press Podcast

Reckoning Press Podcast

creative writing on environmental justice

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July 14, 2025 35 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: We're here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, bringing you a story written by Mario Coelho, and read by Reckoning's Bernie Jean Schibeling. "We Will Not Dream of Corals" is, at its core, revenge by way of a wish. Coral, a creature which has carried the brunt of climate change for decades, a...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Hey there, listeners. It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and today we're hearing "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" from Reckoning 9, written and read by Idé Hennessy. What's there to do four thousand meters below the surface of the sea? If you're thinking, "hit a cocktail lounge", then buddy, y...
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May 20, 2025 16 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader and author for today's story. Andrew Kozma brings us "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3. This one's a story of a small group of desperately underfunded researchers battling the ecological collapse of a lake made all the worse by eariler a...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome once again to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning and the reader for today's story. Hope you're having a good one. Our story today is Reckoning 7's "The Air Will Catch Us" by Rajiv Moté. As a flash fiction piece, it's a short listen. But Moté has filled every line with gentle worldbuilding, histo...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's time once again for the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, and this story's audio producer—but our reader is Anna Pele. Today we have Nadine Aurora Tabing's wonderul "The Bright in the Gyre" from Reckoning 7. This one's got a favorite theme of mine: becoming. Our protagonist races against terminal ill...
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February 24, 2025 35 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Bernie: Hello again, Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Bernie Jean Schiebeling, the reader for this episode, with Aaron Kling as producer. Today we're sharing C.G. Aubrey's "A Predatory Transience" from Reckoning 7. What I admire most about this piece is its grounding in a present moment. The rich imagery that C.G. brings to the landscapes of the South...
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December 16, 2024 8 mins
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast. It's me, your still-reeling host, Michael J. DeLuca. This will be our final episode of 2024, and I am afforded an unusual opportunity in that I'm actually recording this the week it'll be released instead of months in advance. Things may very well have changed a great deal by the time I get to ...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. We're here again with the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, Reckoning's new audio editor, the reader and producer for today's story. How's it going, everyone? This time we have Ellis Nye's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" as featured in Reckoning 8. This one's a fictional obituary, but don't let that get you down. Since...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: You're listening to the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, editor for Reckoning's audio in general and this story in particular. Glad to be recording another one of these! Today, listeners, we have Monica Wendel's "A Shape that Has No Name" from Reckoning 8. In this story, we follow a young teacher as she navigates a difficult relat...
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Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Hi folks, this is the Reckoning Press podcast, and it's me again, Michael J. DeLuca, publisher. This month we have for you Naila Francis's poem "After encountering the grey whales in El Burbujon, Laguna Ojo de Liebre", read by the author. This piece originally appeared in Reckoning 7, our "oceans" issue. I'm of the feeling any preamble to this wou...
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