Consequence Forum addresses the human consequences 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.

Literary Journal

Our biannual anthology of international authors and artists, including in-depth features on specific conflicts, cultures, or regions.

Substack

Our partner online platform for new featured pieces, guest contributor posts, and event announcements. Every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday.

Literature & Art

Home to all of our featured online fiction, nonficiton, poetry, reviews, translations, and visual art. Published bi-weekly and always free.

Writing Classes

Online classes taught by established instructors designed to help sharpen craft, discuss project ideas, and find new communities.

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What Previous Contributors Have to Say

Phil KlayFormer 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 KinsellaShortlisted 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 AckermanFormer 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.
Matt GallagherFormer US Army Captain, Iraq War Veteran, Ukraine correspondent for Esquire, and author of three novels.
It's not that the work of Consequence is vital—in an America mired in a forever foreign war, that's self-evident. It's that the work of Consequence is excellent, consistently piercing and true, devoted to hard reckoning and hard peace and writers who believe in both.
Dr. Teresa FazioFormer Marine Corps communications officers, Iraq Vet, freelance journalist, and author of the memoir Fidelis.
Consequence offers a space for Veterans to create, read, and submit art reflecting their diverse wartime experiences. By publishing material from all perspectives on our recent wars—not just that of the stereotypical American infantry soldier—Consequence also broadens the war lit canon, creating space for empathy and healing.

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