Literary & Genre E-Zines
Literary e-zines around the world are full to the brim with short stories, poetry, flash fiction and intelligent essays that challenge perceptions of what can be written into reality. Explore this selection of literary e-zines — mainly Fantasy, Science Fiction, speculative fiction and Horror — that you can subscribe to or send your written works to.
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Discover established and independent publications showcasing speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, essays, poetry and audio storytelling.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies (BCS)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a non-profit, SFWA-qualifying pro-rate 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.
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Clarkesworld Magazine
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.
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Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and nonfiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews and roundtables.
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Apex Magazine
Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. It publishes short stories filled with marrow and passion: works that are twisted, strange and beautiful, where secret places and dreams are put on display.
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Asimov’s Science Fiction
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine is a science-fiction e-zine established in 1977 and one of the long-standing publications represented in this ProseWeaver collection.
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Lightspeed
Lightspeed is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine ranging from near-future and sociological SF to far-future hard SF, alongside epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, urban tales, magical realism, science-fantasy and folktales.
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Salon Futura
Salon Futura is an online non-fiction magazine devoted to the discussion of science fiction, fantasy and related literature.
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Pseudopod
Pseudopod is a genre magazine in audio form that looks for dark and weird fiction. It publishes highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as more visceral pulp fiction.
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Escape Pod
Escape Pod is a science fiction podcast magazine, founded in 2005 by Serah Eley and built around bringing science fiction stories to audiences through audio publishing.
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Bull Spec Magazine
Bull Spec Magazine is a speculative-fiction e-zine founded in November 2009.
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Tor.com
Tor.com is an online science fiction and fantasy publication featuring fiction and related ideas. It is published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers.
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