Reckoning Press Podcast

creative writing on environmental justice

Episodes

Podcast Episode 46: What It Means to Love a City

October 21, 2025 • 27 mins

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And today we have "What it Means to Love a City", proudly featured in Reckoning 7, written by Morris Hinkle and read by Andrew Kozma. Consider a city, those mosaic aggregates of homes, industries, and the systems needed to support them. I'm sure you've...

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Podcast Episode 45: Within the Seed Lives the Fruit

August 18, 2025 • 53 mins

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning. And for today's podcast, we have "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit", from Reckoning 8, by Leah Andelsmith. This is a story about a family living and caring for their loaned land. But make no mistake: this is a decades-long fight for survival that sees our cast twine round a territory that, in time...

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Podcast Episode 44: We Will Not Dream of Corals

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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Podcast Episode 43: The Piano Player Has Eight Arms

June 16, 2025 • 10 mins

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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Podcast Episode 42: Exit Here

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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Podcast Episode 41: The Air Will Catch Us

April 21, 2025 • 8 mins

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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Podcast Episode 40: The Bright in the Gyre

March 17, 2025 • 35 mins

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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Podcast Episode 39: A Predatory Transience

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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Podcast Episode 38: Inclement Weather

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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Podcast Episode 37: The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest

November 17, 2024 • 11 mins

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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