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Abyss & Apex
Abyss & Apex's mission is to publish the finest in human-written (no AI!) speculative and imaginative fiction and poetry, with special attention to character-driven stories that examine the depths and heights of emotion and motivation from a broad variety of cultural and social perspectives.
Analog
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine continues to bring together celebrated authors, new talent, and award-winning stories, poems, and articles, as it has since its launch in 1930.
Anathema
Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a free, online tri-annual magazine publishing speculative fiction (SF/F/H, the weird, slipstream, surrealism, fabulism, and more) by queer people of colour on every range of the LGBTQIA spectrum.
Andromeda Spaceways
Andromeda Spaceways is a quarterly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine, publishing short stories, poetry, interviews, articles of interest, and book reviews.
Apex Magazine
Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display.
Apparition Literary
Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork.
Archive of the Odd
Archive of the Odd is a biannual magazine of found fiction—stories told in the style of found footage, also known epistolary, neo-epistolary, found file, or found document fiction. Essentially, stories told in the form of other documents.
Asimov's
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine continues to bring together celebrated authors, new talent, and award-winning stories, poems, and articles as it has for over 35 years.
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Augur Magazine
Augur is a literary magazine that makes room for writing from uncommon perspectives, and brings together the often disparate realms of literary and genre fiction.
Aurealis
Aurealis is Australia’s most successful SF/fantasy magazine. Our aim when we released our first issue in September 1990 was to produce something that had never been produced before in Australia: a professional mass market SF/fantasy magazine. We’ve been doing that ever since.
Baffling Magazine
Baffling Magazine is a quarterly online magazine of flash fiction.
We love fantasy, science fiction & horror stories with a queer bent.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a non-profit online magazine dedicated to publishing literary adventure fantasy: fantasy set in secondary-world or historical paranormal settings, written with a literary focus on the characters.
Bourbon Penn
Bourbon Penn, a weird-lit magazine featuring stories of the imagination and odd.
Cast of Wonders
Cast of Wonders is the leading voice in young adult speculative short fiction. The show aims to demonstrate the versatility and breadth of young adult fiction, and to welcome new and diverse voices to the conversation.
CatsCast
CatsCast publishes speculative cat stories monthly. We hope that each story leaves its cat-loving listeners a little happier after listening than they were before. See the sidebar for instructions on how to subscribe, or listen to (or read) individual episodes on Patreon.
Clarkesworld
Clarkesworld is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. Each issue contains interviews, thought-provoking articles, and between six and eight works of original fiction. Our fiction is also available in ebook editions/subscriptions, audio podcasts, print issues, and in our annual print/ebook anthologies.
Cosmic Horror Monthly
Terror awaits...
Cosmic Horror Monthly is a monthly tome of tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. Bold new horror delivered to your inbox or your mailbox.
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Deadlands
The Deadlands is a monthly speculative fiction magazine. We publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.
Diabolical Plots
Diabolical Plots started publishing original fiction in 2015 and continues to publish original fiction. In 2020, Diabolical Plots published “Open House On Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell which was nominated for both the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, among others.
Dirty Magick Magazine
Dirty Magick Magazine publishes original short fiction, from 2,000 to 12,500 words. Urban fantasy, sword & sorcery, and gothic & supernatural horror.
Drabblecast
The Drabblecast is a weekly audio fiction podcast featuring short and flash fictions from a variety authors. Their singular focus is off-beat, funny, eclecticism in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Dreamforge Anvil
At DreamForge Magazine, we welcome readers with a passion for positive fantasy and science fiction. Here you will find stories where characters endure, overcome, and embrace that spirit of wonder and discovery through which sentient beings invest the universe with meaning and purpose.
Escape Pod
Escape Pod is the original genre fiction podcast. Edited by Hugo and Campbell winner Mur Lafferty and Clarke Award finalist Valerie Valdes, Escape Pod specializes in science fiction of all forms.
Fabilist, The
The Fabulist has published short fiction, poetry and art, in digital and print editions, since 2007. We began publishing nonfiction in 2019, including online reviews, previews and pop-cultural news blogging.
Our interests include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, myth, folk traditions, comics, magic realism, “literary fiction,” pop culture, film, music, and more.
Fantasy
Welcome to the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, published quarterly by Psychopomp, under the editorial direction of Shingai Njeri Kagunda and Arley Sorg
Our next issue features amazing short stories, flash fiction, and poetry.
FIYAH
FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora.
This is the future of Black SFF.
FIYAH rises from the ashes of the Black literary tradition started by Fire!! in 1926. We aren’t here for respectability. We’re here to ask what it means to be Black and extraordinary.
Flash Fiction Online
Bold Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in Fewer Words.
Fusion Fragment
Fusion Fragment is a science fiction magazine that does justice to the hard work and the brilliant minds of the writers who create these amazing stories for all of us.
GigaNotoSaurus
Giganotosaurus (the dinosaur) lived about ninety million years ago, and it was almost the largest carnivorous dinosaur. A little bigger than Tyrannosaurus, a little smaller than Spinosaurus.
GigaNotoSaurus (the webzine, edited by LaShawn Wanak) publishes one longish fantasy or science fiction story monthly. Longish meaning longer than a short story, and shorter than a novel.
Gwyllion
Gwyllion is a non-profit, bi-annual genre fiction semiprozine which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror from Wales. We publish two online issues a year as well as a limited run of physical copies.
Haven Spec
Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more. We publish six issues every year, two of which (the DRY Issue and the WET Issue) are focused exclusively on the climate crisis and themes of displacement (very broadly defined).
Hearth Stories
Hearth Stories is an always free, twice yearly fiction magazine. We mostly publish speculative fiction that explores connection, family, relationships, comfort, and the natural world. However, we have recently opened up to publishing literary fiction works that fit our style and setting.The stories often take shape as slice of life fiction in a fantasy or medi-style setting. Our stories are meant to be cozy, quiet, and largely devoid of fast action and high tech settings (we publish stories with technology <= that of the mid-1800's). We like magic, new worlds, deep forests, and stories of home, hearth, and companionship.
Heartlines Spec
Heartlines Spec is a Canadian SFF short fiction and poetry magazine focused on long-term relationships: platonic, romantic, or familial. We publish stories and poetry with strong, confident relationships amid all the sci-fi/fantasy. We are especially interested in stories featuring queer platonic relationships, ace/aro love stories, and polycules.
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is an ezine dedicated to publishing short works of heroic fantasy. More than that, through both prose and poetry we hope to hearken back to an older age of storytelling — an age when a story well told enthralled audiences.
Hexagon
Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine is a quarterly digital magazine collecting the work of international authors, poets, and visual artists.
We showcase prose and poetry that take us on journeys to other worlds or other times, where elements of the fantastic, absurd, horrifying, or humorous might exist.
HyphenPunk
Established in February of 2021, HyphenPunk is a magazine that focuses on the human condition through the lens of the postmodern. Cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, solarpunk, and other -punks are engines that allow an aspect of what it means to be alive to be examined in a microcosm.
Sometimes that means high action, sometimes that means deep philosophy. It always means a great story.
Stories will appear online weekly and will be published in ebook format once per quarter on the solstice or equinox.
Inner Worlds
Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We publish works which use elements from science fiction, fantasy, or horror to illuminate the different ways we experience ourselves and our world.
Interzone
Interzone publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet.
Every issue of Interzone is illustrated with full-colour art. Subscribe to get issues delivered to your door – free shipping, planetwide.
Interzone has an online sister zine, Interzone Digital which is like Interzone, but digital.
khōréō
khōréō is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction and migration. They are dedicated to diversity and elevating the voices of immigrant and diaspora authors.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
LCRW is an Occasional Outburst, an arrow shot into the future, a harbinger, a break from the daily meh, a lightness, a laugh, an incredibly serious archiving of a moment, a cinder from an old star set to light once more in the hands of readers.
LCRW is also a 1/2-legal-sized paper zine, saddle-stitched, running about 52 – 64 pages (sometimes 61), printed in black ink on white or ivory 30% recycled paper with a cardstock cover. We generally publish it in June and November.
Lightspeed
Lightspeed is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Lightspeed October 2023
Cover of Lightspeed Magazine, October, 2023, showing an apparent water/storm dragon attacking people with watery breath
Little Blue Marble
Because there is, at the moment, only one little blue marble for all of us, our goal is to bring greater awareness of the consequences and potential solutions to anthropogenic climate change. We do this by linking to great content from around the web, and publishing original articles and works of speculative fiction.
Little Blue Marble is published and edited by Katrina Archer, a software engineer, author, and editor.
Little Blue Marble is a passion project, and as such is entirely funded by advertising, donations, and purchases of our year-end anthologies.
Lost Colony
Lost Colony Books is an independent publishing company specializing in masterfully crafted speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy in all of their manifestations). Currently, it publishes Lost Colony, a quarterly magazine of mid-length (10,000-25,000 words) stories.
Luna Station Quarterly
The on-going mission of Luna Station Quarterly is to display the vast and varied talents of female-identified speculative fiction writers. We believe that women have a unique and universal voice in fiction and we aim to get it heard.
Magazine of F&SF
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast
Each week (from February thru November) we deliver to your podcast feed a short-short story (almost never more than ten minutes). The stories range widely in theme and style. Some are more like audiobooks, some more like radio plays or found-recordings. Some are literary, some are romantic, some are silly, but they lean heavily toward science fiction and fantasy.
Metaphorosis
Metaphorosis is a magazine of science fiction and fantasy. We offer intelligent, beautifully written stories for adults.
Mystery Magazine
At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.
Mythaxis
Established in 2008 by Gil Williamson, Mythaxis has always been focused on the fiction, with as little distraction as possible - no ads, no clutter, just words on the page to transport you somewhere else.
Mythaxis is forever free-to-read, but if you would like to support the magazine you could always buy us a coffee.
New Edge Sword and Sorcery
NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY magazine is made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling!
Each issue holds approx. 45,000 words of Sword & Sorcery fiction, as well as interviews, essays, book reviews, and more!
All of these wonderful words are paired with gorgeous art.
NIGHTLIGHT
NIGHTLIGHT is a World Fantasy and IGNYTE-award winning horror fiction podcast featuring creepy tales written by Black authors from all over the world.
Nightmare
Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales to visceral psychological horror. We believe that horror is for everyone, and we aim to publish the widest possible variety of the most delicious, spine-tingling tales.
Old Moon Quarterly
Old Moon Quarterly is a small, independent online magazine devoted to publishing weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action.
Omenana
Omenana is a tri-monthly magazine that publishes speculative fiction from Africa and the African diaspora.
On Spec
On Spec is SF with a uniquely Canadian Perspective. We discover and showcase quality works by predominantly Canadian writers and artists, in the genre we call “Fantastic” literature. We foster the growth of emerging writers in this genre, by offering support and direction through constructive criticism, education, mentoring, and manuscript development.
Penumbric
Penumbric is an online magazine dedicated to riding that ever-changing edge of new and original fiction and art and sound and everything into tomorrow.
Planet Scumm
FRIENDS, BOUND TOGETHER BY A COSMIC CAUSE…
Our anthology was inspired by science fiction magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction and Weird Tales. And while we genuinely love the bold, kitschy, experimental early days of those publications, we also recognize that the genre has come a long way since then.
When you open an issue of Planet Scumm, you’re not just getting a collection of bleeding-edge science fiction—you’re getting to know us through our passion project.
Podcastle
PodCastle is a short fantasy fiction podcast that began in 2008 as the third Escape Artists podcast with editor and host Rachel Swirsky. PodCastle specializes in all genres of the fantastic. PodCastle’s stories span the genre, from classic sword & sorcery tales to the bleeding edge of speculative realism, hurtling through worlds both imagined and just to the left of our own.
PseudoPod
PseudoPod is dedicated to bringing its listeners the best short horror fiction on the planet.
Radon Journal
Radon is a triannual online journal publishing prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia.
We are here to embody the wholesome values of anarchy (direct democracy, equality, free association, mutual-aid) and provide an avenue for writers to join the conversation.
Reckoning
Reckoning: a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice.
rhapsody
Third Flatiron's new all-original science fiction/fantasy/horror/humor anthology, Rhapsody of the Spheres, presents short stories about things that give us joy or meaning.
Savage Realms Monthly
Savage Realms Monthly brings you tales of heroic barbarians, lusty wenches, and vile sorcerers to satisfy your craving for adventure. Savage Realms is jam packed with pulse-pounding sword and sorcery fiction from some of today’s most talented new fantasy authors.
Seize the Press
Seize The Press is an online magazine for dark speculative fiction and anticapitalist sci-fi, fantasy and horror pop culture analysis.
Small Wonders
Small Wonders Magazine publishes original and reprint flash fiction and narrative poetry, all tinged with the wonder of other worlds both science fictional and fantastic. Stories and poems arrive three weeks of every month.
Solarpunk Magazine
The time for solarpunk has come, and the mission of this magazine is to become one of many important catalysts for an important and necessary revolution within both the literary world and our larger culture.
Starline
Star*Line is the official print journal of the SFPA, established in 1978. It is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and poetry enthusiasts, and features interviews, articles, reviews, member news and letters, association business, and poetry—by members and nonmembers.
Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is a weekly magazine of and about speculative fiction. We publish fiction, poetry, reviews, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, and art.
Our definition of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and all other flavors of fantastika. Work published in Strange Horizons has been shortlisted for or won Hugo, Nebula, Rhysling, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree Jr., and World Fantasy Awards.
Stupefying Stories
Edited by Philip K. Dick Award-winning author and cyberpunk legend Bruce Bethke, STUPEFYING STORIES is the place to read tomorrow's famous writers today! Whether your taste runs to science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, or something so new it doesn't yet have a name, you're sure to find it in STUPEFYING STORIES!
Sunday Morning Transport, The
Sunday Morning Transport readers are authors, thinkers, scientists, artists, dreamers. With a single science fiction or fantasy short story each Sunday, we connect across space and time. We deliver, right to your inbox: a moment of whimsy; a deep dive into an unknown world; a single illuminating transformation; a vibrant community of readers and writers built around the best new speculative stories each week.
Tales & Feathers
Here at Tales & Feathers Magazine, we're committed to the cozy, the comforting, and the sentiment "no plot, just vibes." Throughout the year, we'll release a new short stories of 2,500 words or less that luxuriate in the slice of life fantasy genre.
So pour yourself a cup of tea, grab a blanket, and enjoy!
Tales From the Magician's Skull
Tales From the Magician’s Skull is a fantasy magazine dedicated to presenting all-new sword-and-sorcery fiction by the finest modern crafters in the genre. These stories are the real thing, crammed with sword-swinging action, dark sorceries, dread, and ferocious monsters—and they hurtle forward at a headlong pace.
Third Flatiron
Third Flatiron Publishing was established in 2012. It is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, and Ayr, Scotland. (No relation to Macmillan’s more recently founded Flatiron Books.) We publish digital science fiction and fantasy anthologies with accompanying print editions.
Three Lobed Burning Eye
Three-Lobed Burning Eye (3LBE) is an online magazine of speculative fiction, bringing you stories of horror, wonder, and the weird. Each issue features four short stories.
Translunar Traveler’s Lounge
Translunar Travelers Lounge is a biannual speculative fiction magazine that aims to explore the fun side of fantasy and science fiction. Put down your bags, take a seat, and relax with our fine selection of short fiction.
Trollbreath Magazine
Trollbreath Magazine is a journal of speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, publishing electronic issues on a quarterly schedule. Our interests are as varied as the endless amount of genres, from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism, and everything in between.
Uncanny
Uncanny Magazine is an online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture.
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine
Welcome to Utopia Science Fiction (USF) Magazine. Founded July, 2019, we are a growing science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. We put out a new issue on the 30th of every other month, and we release a free story and poem every three weeks.
Weird Horror
We are a home for the strange, the macabre, the eerie, the esoteric, the fabulist, and the gothic. The darkly numinous. The odd. We are not interested in extreme horror. Do not send science fiction or fantasy.
Weird Tales
Since 1923 we’ve been the home of prophetic tales of dark fantasy, cosmic horror, supernatural revenge, and the sorcery of terror. And the next century begins now.
Worlds of Possibilities
Worlds of Possibility works leave us with a sense of hope, peace, or contentment.
For this project, Julia Rios buys original stories, poems, and art by other creators to display on this website. Paid subscribers directly sponsor these pieces with their subscription fees, and get to see the contents before the general public! As of August 2022, issues are released to subscribers in ebook format on a bimonthly basis before individual pieces are released online and on the OMG Julia Podcast.
The magazines on this list are active speculative fiction publications with regular publishing schedules who pay authors at least a nominal fee for their stories. If you would like to suggest addition markets or corrections to the current list, please use the form below.