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We’ve closed to all submissions (except reviews and critical essays) for the first time ever as of September 23, 2025. Look for our reopening announcement in 2026!

There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying “professional” rates upon acceptance; click below to see how much for different kinds of work. Response time has ranged from one to six months and is slowest October through January, when we’re putting together a new issue and editors for the following issue have not been chosen.

What we’re looking for: creative writing and art about environmental justice.

We are always seeking work from Indigenous writers and artists, racialized writers and artists, queer, trans and/or disabled writers and artists, and anyone, anywhere in the world, who has suffered the consequences, intended or otherwise, of dominant society’s systemic disconnect with and mistreatment of the natural world. And we’re seeking new ways to reach all of the above. Seriously, if you know of a way we can do that, please share.

We don’t publish ecofascism or work we perceive to be prejudiced in any form, including sexism, racism, ableism, ageism. We reserve the right to point it out—respectfully—when we see it, though we’re as prone to mistakes and misunderstanding as anyone else.

We don’t publish work which was created using any of the tools now conventionally referred to as “AI”.

Here’s a start on a list of what else doesn’t work for us.

We do accept simultaneous submissions; you are welcome to submit a piece both to us and simultaneously to other publications, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere either using the contact button in Moksha or by contacting us at [email protected].

To get a better sense of what we publish, please try Reckoning 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the special issues, the podcast, the interviews, or even LCRW 33.

For genre-specific guidelines and to submit, please choose from the categories below:

25 thoughts on “Submit”

  1. When is it OK to query you about the status of a story? (I understand you allow for sim subs, but many magazines unfortunately do not!)

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  3. Hello there,

    May I know if you consider entries from authors/writers outside North America?

    How do you pay? Via Paypal?

    Thanks

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    1. Yes, we welcome and encourage submissions from authors outside the North America! So far we’ve seen submissions from the Caribbean, Spain, Australia, Germany, the UK, Canada, and I’m sure I’m forgetting some. A few semi-autonomous Native reservations in the US, do those count? Seriously, I wish English were not such a determining factor. I would love to publish some biligual work. I wish I had the capacity to appreciate artistic brilliance in languages other than English.

      We pay by PayPal or by check. And I don’t mind mailing checks internationally if needed.

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  5. Good afternoon, do you review subs as they come along or will you wait till the deadline to chose? Thanks!

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  9. Is there a minimum amount of time you would prefer people to wait between being rejected and submitting a new piece? Some places have no minimum, as long as you wait until one piece is rejected before sending another but others seem ask writers to wait a month or so.

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