Mission

Consequence Forum addresses the consequences, realities, and experiences of war and geopolitical violence through literature, art, and community events. We provide the public with works and voices from around the world to promote a clearer and more nuanced understanding of what’s at stake in choosing to wage war or engage in conflict.

WHAT WE DO

Literary Journals

A biannual anthology of international authors and artists in both print and digital formats

Substack

Our blogging platform spotlighting guest contributors, book lists, and less-traditional work

Online Features

New biweekly prose, poetry, and visual art, including video essays and author readings

Of Consequence

An online series of readings, panels, and Q&As with artists and those with expertise in conflict

Writing Workshops

Online courses that help individuals develop their creative writing craft or professional writing skills

Partnership Opportunities

Opportunities for interns, volunteers, organizations, or those for whom cost is a participation barrier

Newest Publications and Events

The Beinart Notebook: A Review

A Review by David Roochnik

“The Beinart Notebook is a Substack site with a weekly “show” (via Zoom) in which the journalist Peter Beinart discusses issues concerning Israel-Palestine with his guests. These presentations are a marvelous, even inspiring, model of rational conversation about politics. Given the vast amount of money and weapons the United States has given to Israel, the Beinart Notebook should be required viewing for all Americans who care not only about how their tax dollars are being spent but about actions being taken in their name.”

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The Donkey

Fiction by Gus Biggio

“Fighting the Russians would give Hamid the chance to prove his túra (bravery) and nang (honor), some of the Pashtunwali  values he’d been taught since childhood. He often plucked at the scant whiskers on his chin, convincing himself he was ready for war and glory. But he knew that his father would never let him go.”

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Poetry and Intergenerational Trauma

This workshop invites poets of all levels to explore how they write with, through, and about the traumas they may not have experienced personally but which live on in their bodies, minds, and words. 

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Here’s Looking for You

Nonfiction by Lori Friedman

A personal essay where the author remembers her father and how an unexpected source, the movie Casablanca, helped her connect with him and his experiences as an Armenian refugee.

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From Personal to Public Narratives: Advanced Writing Workshop

This advanced writing class is designed for writers seeking to refine their nonfiction narrative skills through personal experiences linked to major social events. Over six weeks, participants will bring their own writing—essays, memoirs, or personal narratives—to develop and receive feedback.

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Three Poems by Olga Bragina

Translations by Olga Zilberbourg

Our latest translation feature looks at the poetry and photographs of Ukrainian author and poet Olga Bragina, who records the reality of life in Kyiv two years after the Russian invasion of her country.

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What previous contributors and attendees have to say

Phil Klay—former Marine Corps officer, National Book Award Winner, and Guggenheim Fellow

In a culture where war-making is obscured, and the costs rendered invisible, Consequence performs the essential function of highlighting the experience of war from every angle, from participants and observers, combatants and civilians, and artists of all types across international boundaries. That’s why I’m especially grateful to have been included in their pages at a time when most other journals passed on my work. If there is a way forward, it must come from the sort of thinking and humanistic engagement done in the pages of Consequence.

Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella—shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize for their translation of Natalka Bilotserkivets's Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

Consequence Forum gives dignity to damaged and threatened communities, to lives that refuse to settle silently in the thresholds between displacement and a sense of place and self. We are grateful to include our co-translations from the Ukrainian of poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets and Halyna Kruk among other voices that rise above hard-hitting realities to hard-earned revelations.

Elliot Ackerman—former Marine Corps special operations team leader, New York Times bestselling author, and National Book Award nominee

Consequence nurtures the voices of Veterans and brings their stories to both a reading audience and an artistic community, which they have created. Finding community and being heard is what allows Veterans to reintegrate into society, making the work done by Consequence essential.

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