Consequence Forum
Consequence Forum addresses the consequences of war and geopolitical violence through literature, art, and community events to promote a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the realities and experiences of conflict.
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- We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
- We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- Our reading period will open on January 15th. To submit, go to consequenceforum.org/submissions
- “A Plan to Save the World,” a poem by Hassan Akram translated and read by Ibrahim Fawzy has been anthologized in @bestliterarytranslations 2025 edition. To hear the poem, check out @deepvellum for a reading by Ibrahim Fawzy.
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack
- Here's CF poetry reader Fadairo Tesleem in Lagos at the Aké Arts & Book Festival. The festival, now in its thirteenth year, has brought together over a thousand writers, poets, musicians, actors, filmmakers, artists and thinkers to celebrate creativity, network and share stories.
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
- One of our past contributors, Jehanne Dubrow, has a new book coming out and she will be leading a special one-day class based on it later this month. We’re proud to be a partner in the event! Follow the registration link above to learn more and register.
- Thank you, TLA Network, for the recognition as a 2025 Transformative Language Arts Award winner. It’s an honor to be recognized and we can’t thank you enough. @tlanetwork.bsky.social
- Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack
- Please join us in the celebration of our most recent issue. Go to consequenceforum.org to register and learn more.
- We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- Submit at consequenceforum.org/submissions
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops
- We spoke with Raphael Badagliacca, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about what the organization means to him. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.
- Learn more and submit at consequenceforum.org/submissions
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops. We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org
- We spoke to Peter McKinney, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about knowing when his pieces are truly finished. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.
- Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these stories combine compression and narrative in a form that, author Dana Wall says, “effectively captures the compressed intensity of war.” consequenceforum.substack.com/p/flash-four... #shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #FlashFictionFriday
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org
- By Yahia Lababidi (@ysl.bsky.social). "Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai write from fractured geographies: two sides of a wound too deep for slogans." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
- The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-origin... #veteransupport #veterans #veteranshelpingveterans #VeteranStrong #Essays #nonfictionreads #nonfiction #nonfictionauthor
- Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/empire-sta... #bookrecommendations #militarybooks #usmilitary #USMilitaryHistory #USMilitaryPower
- 🎉🎉 On Sunday, August 10, at 3 pm, Consequence Forum's Contributing Editor Martha Collins will be awarded the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award, one of the nation’s oldest literary prizes. To learn more and register for the livestream: nepoetryclub.org/event/longfe... Congrats, Martha!
- Nonfiction by James J. Kirschke. “Well, now that I am blind, when I go out to supper with my wife and children, the waiter or waitress always asks my wife . . . what I would like to eat." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/i-remember... #nonfiction #nonfictionreads #vietnamwar
- A new prose workshop! Bringing the Receipts: Using Personal Documents as Prompts to Write about the Past *We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. To learn more: consequenceforum.org/workshops/
- A poem by Vaughn Hayes that imagines a convincing world for the people found in a photograph, telling us of their lives and sacrifices, and ends on the hope for someone "to say something soft." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/found-fami...
- Writing Sci-Fi War Stories *Please note that we offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. To learn more or register: consequenceforum.org/workshops/
- An interview by C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) with Taiwanese artist Chang Ping-Cheng (張秉正). "Although my imagery draws from the generation of my father, I’m not simply telling their stories." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/father-a-p...
- New Poetry Workshop: The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. To learn more and to register: consequenceforum.org/workshops/
- A Featured Review by Alice Stephens. "As a Korean adoptee . . . the film deeply resonated with me in its depiction of the calamitous, and yet hidden, trauma of family separation." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/film-revie...
- By poet Gunilla T. Kester. "Yet the most central theme in his collected oeuvre, perhaps, is his ongoing dialogue, not to say, argument with G-d." consequenceforum.substack.com/p/yehuda-ami...
- Fiction by Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social. “Lucifer literally means light bearing. It’s the morning star. Maybe that’s why. You know?” consequenceforum.substack.com/p/jupiter-be...
- A personal essay about testing the limits of trauma from Jgp MacAdam consequenceforum.substack.com/p/on-firewor... #Veterans #VeteranSupport #nonfiction #personalessay #nonfictionreads #nonfictionwriter #nonfictionreading
- A deep dive into Isaac Asimov's 1961 short story, which holds some clues about the opportunity (or threat) of AI. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-machin...
- Our reading period is open from 7/15 - 10/15. As always, we’re after the strongest fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translations, and visual art that address the consequences of war. Have work you want to submit or want to learn about our pay rates? Go here: www.consequenceforum.org/submissions
- As part of our Young Writers Nonfiction Project, we're launching a FREE three-part nonfiction workshop series for writers aged 15-24. Learn more about the project: consequenceforum.org/young-writer... To register for the workshops, please email us at info@consequenceforum.org.
- Writer Naya Clark speaks with author Amina Tawasil about, among other things, her new book, Paths Made by Walking. consequenceforum.substack.com/p/highlighti...
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops
- Fiction by Houshang Golshiri. Translated from Persian by Samuel Thrope. “Isn’t writing like giving birth because, let’s say, at a certain moment a person is forced to write?” consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-painte...
- Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops
