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April 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our submission portals are open on Moksha through April 14th. Send us your solarpunk short stories, poems, nonfiction, and art! We pay 8 cents per word for fiction. You can read more about our payrates and submission guidelines by hitting thelink. #solarpunk #solarpunkmagazine #demandutopia
Reviewers on Reviewing: in the this roundtable discussion, @chloroformtea.bsky.social asks @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, and @princejvstin.com about the effects of payrates (and lack thereof) in the SFF reviewing scene.
Reviewers on Reviewing: Paying for Reviews
In 2025, ARB contributor Roseanna Pendlebury arranged a series of roundtables with SFF reviewers, originally intended for Nerds of a Feather. For some involved publishing reasons, this wound up bei…
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June 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Reviewers on Reviewing: in the this roundtable discussion, @chloroformtea.bsky.social asks @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, and @princejvstin.com about the effects of payrates (and lack thereof) in the SFF reviewing scene.
Hard same. If you don't list your payrates I assume you're up to something sketchy.
I need magazines to publish their rates of pay for me to sub there. I'm sorry. I cannot recommend magazines even in this time of everything closing that don't list their rates of pay because I can't guarantee to people I'm reccing the mag to that everyone is receiving the same payment.
January 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hard same. If you don't list your payrates I assume you're up to something sketchy.
I'm unsure of their payrates, perhaps we could see some information.
December 3, 2024 at 6:59 AM
I'm unsure of their payrates, perhaps we could see some information.
iirc subtember used to be that many years ago, but twitch gutted it because it was too lucrative for the biggest partners who don't have dogshit payrates
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
iirc subtember used to be that many years ago, but twitch gutted it because it was too lucrative for the biggest partners who don't have dogshit payrates
But what sources told me, the magazines will remain in print and the current editors will be retained. As for payrates and contract rights for stories, we'll have to wait for that info. 4/
February 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
But what sources told me, the magazines will remain in print and the current editors will be retained. As for payrates and contract rights for stories, we'll have to wait for that info. 4/
Remember that big news @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social has been mumbling about? It happened: Reckoning has received a substantial grant from ARLA, allowing us to significantly raise payrates AND produce a new special issue! Some details here, more forthcoming: reckoning.press/big-news-arl...
Big News: ARLA Grant, Payrate Increase, Special Issue Call Forthcoming! | Reckoning
The big news I have been murmuring about here and there on social media and elsewhere these past few weeks is finally ready for primetime: Reckoning Press has been awarded a substantial grant from Acc...
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August 16, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Remember that big news @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social has been mumbling about? It happened: Reckoning has received a substantial grant from ARLA, allowing us to significantly raise payrates AND produce a new special issue! Some details here, more forthcoming: reckoning.press/big-news-arl...
Honestly, yes. While I love the act of writing, writing and "being a writer" aren't the same. Do I love submitting my work for the judgment of others? Do I love the payrates? Do I enjoy all the things between "I have just written" and "people can read it"? Taking it
Too Seriously isn't good for us.
Too Seriously isn't good for us.
You got into this because you love reading, not because you love scaling pyramid schemes of late stage capitalism. Somewhere in between that tragic wasteland are the bodies of millions of writers who tried before you! Live forever, no problem, it's only creative writing
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Honestly, yes. While I love the act of writing, writing and "being a writer" aren't the same. Do I love submitting my work for the judgment of others? Do I love the payrates? Do I enjoy all the things between "I have just written" and "people can read it"? Taking it
Too Seriously isn't good for us.
Too Seriously isn't good for us.
Granted, the next logical step in our cultural evolution should be something similar to the Nordic economy (higher payrates, free/affordable healthcare, extended vacations, etc) but a money-free society should be the end goal for humankind until the sun explodes.
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Granted, the next logical step in our cultural evolution should be something similar to the Nordic economy (higher payrates, free/affordable healthcare, extended vacations, etc) but a money-free society should be the end goal for humankind until the sun explodes.
Again, the devil is in the details and we'll have to see what the official announcement says, along with the long-term plans for the magazines, contract terms and payrates.
As someone who both reads these magazines and publishes fiction in them, for now I'm optimistic. 9/9
As someone who both reads these magazines and publishes fiction in them, for now I'm optimistic. 9/9
February 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Again, the devil is in the details and we'll have to see what the official announcement says, along with the long-term plans for the magazines, contract terms and payrates.
As someone who both reads these magazines and publishes fiction in them, for now I'm optimistic. 9/9
As someone who both reads these magazines and publishes fiction in them, for now I'm optimistic. 9/9
He's doing that whole, deleting tweets thing, to make it seem like his words are just being twisted too. So people saying it's unhealthy to work 80hr weeks for these payrates isn't worth it, are looking petty, so i think screencaping him here has purpose.
October 26, 2024 at 2:08 PM
He's doing that whole, deleting tweets thing, to make it seem like his words are just being twisted too. So people saying it's unhealthy to work 80hr weeks for these payrates isn't worth it, are looking petty, so i think screencaping him here has purpose.
About time. If you are considered old enough to vote, enlist in the military, legally buy alcohol, get a tattoo, and watch a R-rated film, among other things, then you should be paid an adult wage. #wages #auspol #income #payrates
Fair Work abolishes junior pay rates for adult workers, with half a million young Australians to be paid more
Union celebrates ‘landmark decision’ that will mean adults aged 20 or younger are no longer paid less
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...
One More Call for Support | Reckoning
I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise ...
reckoning.press
June 12, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Support for Reckoning has flagged a bit since our 2022 fundraiser. We don't want to roll back payrates--we want to pay more, so more marginalized folks can have room to write about environmental justice and teach us how to be better! Please help if you can? reckoning.press/one-more-cal...
Both these places were my "dream jobs" when I was younger. Then I met and spoke to people once I was in the industry, who had worked at both these places...and the payrates and workplace stories shocked me.
August 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Both these places were my "dream jobs" when I was younger. Then I met and spoke to people once I was in the industry, who had worked at both these places...and the payrates and workplace stories shocked me.
Unless this announcement comes with a pledge of massively expanded and funded training, plus enhanced payrates and employment conditions, for care workers, it's no more than pandering to the racists and hugely counterproductive.
May 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Unless this announcement comes with a pledge of massively expanded and funded training, plus enhanced payrates and employment conditions, for care workers, it's no more than pandering to the racists and hugely counterproductive.
Now, the next thing is that would I go for an instrumentation job and leave my AutoCAD drafting job? It depends really. I'll still apply for instrumentation jobs and see what offers are available. I'll then compare the benefits and payrates and see which would be the better pick.
August 25, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Now, the next thing is that would I go for an instrumentation job and leave my AutoCAD drafting job? It depends really. I'll still apply for instrumentation jobs and see what offers are available. I'll then compare the benefits and payrates and see which would be the better pick.
Raise payrates -> tons of new queries and submissions! Thank you all! Also, though: please read the guidelines; 90% of the answers you're querying for are there:
reckoning.press/submit/
reckoning.press/submit/
Submit | Reckoning
[Leer en Español] We're always open to submissions. 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 ...
reckoning.press
September 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Raise payrates -> tons of new queries and submissions! Thank you all! Also, though: please read the guidelines; 90% of the answers you're querying for are there:
reckoning.press/submit/
reckoning.press/submit/
Around 14,000 Glasgow council workers are set to see higher payrates, while 2000 are set to see a pay cut as councillors vote in favour of a new system looking to end a long-running dispute👇
Tens-of-thousands face pay changes as council votes on divisive new measures
www.thenational.scot
August 20, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Around 14,000 Glasgow council workers are set to see higher payrates, while 2000 are set to see a pay cut as councillors vote in favour of a new system looking to end a long-running dispute👇
I can’t think of a part of the tech industry degree programs haven’t destroyed. In a more ideal world retraining would be free. Job placement would exist. Instead we have cycles of degree rushes, unpaid/low-paid internships/short term contractors and suppressed payrates, poorly spec’d positions
November 29, 2024 at 11:03 PM
I can’t think of a part of the tech industry degree programs haven’t destroyed. In a more ideal world retraining would be free. Job placement would exist. Instead we have cycles of degree rushes, unpaid/low-paid internships/short term contractors and suppressed payrates, poorly spec’d positions
China is way better at the actual physical aspects of manufacturing most stuff because they've been doing it very intensively for decades! We haven't! It's not all just payrates or whatever!
April 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
China is way better at the actual physical aspects of manufacturing most stuff because they've been doing it very intensively for decades! We haven't! It's not all just payrates or whatever!
This article is interesting because it illustrates the underlying factors that bedevil writing as an artform and as a job. Writers will write regardless of pay, suppressing payrates. And commercial writing both supports and undermines writing as an artform. It's unsustainable and inequitable.
Late to this from Vince Czyz, but such a good view of @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's "Big Fiction" from an aspiring author's perspective. Not whiny either...instead the simple conundrum of facing an industry whose "first allegiance [isn't] to talent" clereviewofbooks.com/the-age-of-c...
Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration - Cleveland Review of Books
I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take i...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This article is interesting because it illustrates the underlying factors that bedevil writing as an artform and as a job. Writers will write regardless of pay, suppressing payrates. And commercial writing both supports and undermines writing as an artform. It's unsustainable and inequitable.
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In the future, we're going to see more closing, and some maybe dropping their payrates to cover the issues.
If you want to write novels, write novels. Will it take longer to get published? Yes. Because novels are longer. But if you don't love to read and write short stories, why do that to yourself
If you want to write novels, write novels. Will it take longer to get published? Yes. Because novels are longer. But if you don't love to read and write short stories, why do that to yourself
November 13, 2023 at 8:27 PM
In the future, we're going to see more closing, and some maybe dropping their payrates to cover the issues.
If you want to write novels, write novels. Will it take longer to get published? Yes. Because novels are longer. But if you don't love to read and write short stories, why do that to yourself
If you want to write novels, write novels. Will it take longer to get published? Yes. Because novels are longer. But if you don't love to read and write short stories, why do that to yourself
The deeply romanticized view of mag heyday era payrates given to the vanishingly small group of highly in-demand lit writers forgets the bone-crushing poverty under which most writers relying solely on shorts lived.
It's a beautiful dream. But unless you were already famous, not really doable.
It's a beautiful dream. But unless you were already famous, not really doable.
July 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The deeply romanticized view of mag heyday era payrates given to the vanishingly small group of highly in-demand lit writers forgets the bone-crushing poverty under which most writers relying solely on shorts lived.
It's a beautiful dream. But unless you were already famous, not really doable.
It's a beautiful dream. But unless you were already famous, not really doable.