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Greetings earthlings, It's hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since the launch of Red Planet Magazine... Since October of 2019...

The Truth about "Going Tiny"

It's Not Enough to "Go Tiny" as Individual Households - Our Communities must also Become Smaller Greetings earthlings! It's been a while ...

Self-Care Tips for the Creative Community (and others who may find them helpful!)

Now a days I find it difficult to sit and write. Not only because I have become my children's teacher and primary source of entertainment...

12 Months of Fighting Climate Change: Self Sufficiency

When I began blogging about climate change with the intention of preventing the kind of dystopian world you might find in speculative fic...

Checking In...

Greetings earthlings, I hope this finds you safe and healthy. Just wanted to check in with a quick update: Issue 7 is underway, and will ...

All Back Issues FREE Until March 31st...

Starting today, all back issues of Red Planet Magazine are available to download for free until March 31st. Let's keep each other lifted <3

12 Months of Fighting Climate Change: Transportation

Greetings earthlings! I'm in the process of selling my car, which means I now have the opportunity to find a more environmentally-conscio...

Meet the Contributors: Interview with Mike Turner

Mike Turner retired from a career in Federal investigations to the US Gulf Coast, where he took up songwriting, poetry and short story wr...

Meet the Contributors: Interview with Edward Kline

Edward Kline is a short story writer and poet. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts. "The Most Egregious Crook" (below) was featured in th...

Carbon Footprint of Shopping

Happy Monday Earthlings :) Starting off this entry with a little fact about me: I hate shopping. Maybe it was the years I spent working i...

The Plastic Purge: Food Packaging

Do me a favor. Next time you buy groceries, try keeping a tally on how much plastic is used to package the food (styrofoam too!). It seem...

"Meatless" Mondays

Greeting earthlings! The plastic purge is still underway. My new eco-friendly soaps and cleaners arrived, and I'm very pleased with them ...

Issue 4 is here!

You may notice this month's cover image is a bit different from the first few issues. Due to the the disparity of opinion about the legit...

Plastic Purge: "The Soap Dilemma"

Greetings earthlings! This past week has been an adventure. Replacing all the soaps with plastic-free containers seemed like an easy chan...

12 Months of Fighting Climate Change

If you're a first time visitor to the red planet- welcome! My name is Megan, (though most call me Meg) and I am the editor-in-chief of Re...

Take the Pledge!

Red Planet Magazine needs your help to take action against climate change in 2020, because despite the magazine's aesthetic I really don'...

Issue 3 is Here!

Issue #3 is FULL!

Recent submissions are being considered for Issue #4, and will receive a response as soon as possible.

Issue #3 is nearly FULL!

Submit now to be considered for the last issue of 2019- (cue the "see you next year" new year's eve jokes)

Introducing Issue #2- Poetry

"SLEEP INTERRUPTED" by Frank C Modica "POEM 2" by Simon Chiatante "OVER-PLANETING" by Larry D Thacker "ONLY 25,000 YEARS FROM NOW" by Eri...

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