Publications
Here are some of Zachary Calhoun's most recent publications in print and online.
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Moon City Review
2027 (Forthcoming)
Climate fiction story about a trip to New Mexico to see the first deployment of aerosol geoengineering, which will block the sun, cool the earth, and allow fossil fuel usage to continue. Scheduled for publication in 2027 in Moon City Review.
Potomac Review
Issue 79, Fall 2026 (Forthcoming)
Braided creative nonfiction essay about personal trauma, environmental ethics, and philosophical biography. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2026.
Union Spring Literary Review
Issue 4, Summer 2026 (Forthcoming)
Solarpunk short story about a physical media collector facing the apocalypse. Scheduled for publication in Summer 2026.
Five on the Fifth
Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2026
Short story about a grocery store worker who finds the clothes of a missing person and doesn't know what to do about it.
Last Leaves Magazine
Issue 9, 2024
Eco poem about possums, Iowa winters, and dissociation, published in Last Leaves Magazine in 2024.
Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, 2024
Review essay about the history of environmental justice film adaptations, focusing on Daniel Goldhaber’s 2022 film adaptation of Andreas Malm’s book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Details recent currents in environmental activism.
After the Pause
Volume 9, Issue 1, 2022
Eco poems about the aesthetics of apocalypse, Midwest animals, and “the outcry of mute things,” a doubled phrase referring both to repressed memories and paved-over ecosystems.
Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, 2022
Review essay about the currents of animal ethics, ecology, community care, and scientific practice in Cormac McCarthy's novel about descendants of the Manhattan Project.