Reckoning Press Podcast

Reckoning Press Podcast

creative writing on environmental justice

Episodes

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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Podcast Episode 36: A Shape that Has No Name

October 13, 2024 • 43 mins
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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Podcast Episode 35: After encountering the grey whales in El Burbujon, Laguna Ojo de Liebre

September 15, 2024 • 2 mins
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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Podcast Episode 34: Climate Writing Roundtable

August 19, 2024
Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! I hope you've enjoyed these last couple of episodes featuring fiction from Reckoning 8 edited, produced and hosted by Aaron Kling, because there will be more of them! But for this month, it's me again, and we're taking a short interlude from fiction to run a roundtable conversation I had last fall with ...
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