Consequence Forum
@consequencef.bsky.social
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.
https://consequenceforum.org/
https://consequenceforum.org/
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.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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.
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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 [email protected]
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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 [email protected]
Submit at consequenceforum.org/submissions
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Submit at consequenceforum.org/submissions
Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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 [email protected]
September 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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 [email protected]
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.
August 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/flash-four...
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #FlashFictionFriday
Flash! Four Works of Micro-Fiction (with audio recordings)
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
August 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/flash-four...
#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #FlashFictionFriday
Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org
August 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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...
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
The Art of Peace: On Amichai, Darwish, and the Poetic Imagination
By Yahia Lababidi. "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
August 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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...
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
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-origin...
#veteransupport #veterans #veteranshelpingveterans #VeteranStrong #Essays #nonfictionreads #nonfiction #nonfictionauthor
The Original “Occupy DC” Movement
The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam
consequenceforum.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
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
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/empire-sta...
#bookrecommendations #militarybooks #usmilitary #USMilitaryHistory #USMilitaryPower
Empire State of Mind
Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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
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!
To learn more and register for the livestream: nepoetryclub.org/event/longfe...
Congrats, Martha!
July 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🎉🎉 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!
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
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/i-remember...
#nonfiction #nonfictionreads #vietnamwar
I Remember Buddy
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
July 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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
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/
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/
July 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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/
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...
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/found-fami...
Found familial photograph
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
July 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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...
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/found-fami...