Fantasy Magazine

11/07/2025

hey it's FANTASY FRIDAY ✨🦄

Arley Sorg asks World Fantasy Finalists Alix Harrow, Wole Talabi, and Martha Wells to share some thoughts on "fantasy"!

read the interviews here ✨

With the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, I thought about taking some time to discuss the concept of “Fantasy” itself. Then […]

08/07/2025

CONGRATULATIONS to the World Fantasy Finalists! Wonderful to see Fantasy Magazine alums on here - including Sydney Paige Guerrero, whose story is in the latest issue of Fantasy! As well as Hannah Yang & PH Lee, both with work in Fantasy Magazine! Very happy for everyone on the list!

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2…

07/07/2025

The Speculative Literature Foundation just opened two grants for applications - SLF Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants!

https://locusmag.com/2025/07/slf-diverse-writers-and-diverse-worlds-grants-now-open-2/

& can find more opportunities like this at the bottom of Arley's "Links" page - "Get Money." -

https://arleysorg.com/links

of course The Submission Grinder by Diabolical Plots is a great tool for finding markets to send your work, especially (but not only) for !



https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

Submissions for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) Diverse Writers Grant and Diverse Worlds Grant are open from July 1 through July 31, 2025. Each $500 grant “is intended to …

04/07/2025

Eden Royce! Check out her latest story, "Corporate Policy" - live on the Fantasy Magazine site!

Snippet from "Corporate Policy"...:

HOrmeas: Mon 7:52 AM

I’ve never had a possessed employee before.

JCOOK: Mon 7:57 AM

That you know of. It’s fine. Treat her like you would anyone else. If we add possession to the list of approved reasons we give paid time off, we’ll never have any staff.

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Eden doesn't seem to be on Facebook but follow her on Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/edenroyce.bsky.social

Read the story here:

https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue97/corporate-policy/

Just a quick note to ask if it’s an issue that an employee has called out of her shift because she says she’s possessed...

02/07/2025

We're still trying to hit our funding goals! We can't do it without you❤️‍🔥

(We're about halfway there!)

*spreads glittery wings*🦋

We have so much amazing work to share with you! Paid subscriptions create space for awesome creatives to showcase their work🧜‍♂️

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27/06/2025

guess what? it's ✨Fantasy Friday✨!! and we are so excited to share Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí's poem "Seascape w\Ṣàngó & Ọya’s Incarnations"

"First conversation with Ọya in a millennium, Ṣàngó’s
voice is crystalline as the Niger River before the oil spill. Spatial
audio trimming the edges of his fire-laced verbs."

read the complete poem here ✨:

First conversation with Ọya in a millennium.

26/06/2025

Some tools for the horror and -

The Submission Grinder by Diabolical Plots is a great searchable database to find venues to send your work!

https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

The Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction Writers Association have lots of resources!

https://www.sfwa.org/
https://horror.org/

Locus and File770 are popular places to get various kinds of info!

https://locusmag.com/
https://file770.com/

The Locus Magazine Summary is a great "at-a-glance" of some of the journals out there!

https://locusmag.com/2025/02/year-in-review-2024-magazine-summary/

Oh, we love our magazines! It was a great year for some, but the final year for others. Venues changed frequency (usually down), others moved away from print, some added other forums and opportunit…

22/06/2025

Congratulations to the Locus Awards winners and finalists! Huge congratulations to colleagues and friends, and to the readers who get another list to use for finding awesome selections. Massive CONGRATULATIONS to Fantasy Magazine alum Isabel J. Kim, whose story "Christopher Mills, Return to Sender" we published (with glee) a while back - it's so awesome to see more work out there by our alums, and to see that work land for so many readers! Very happy for the success of "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole"!

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Authors Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi were…

21/06/2025

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https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue-97/

Fantasy Magazine Issue 97 features work by: Seoung Kim, Vanessa Kyn, Sydney Paige Guerrero, and Eden Royce, Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí and Aishat Yahkub

21/06/2025

The Truth Circle is not where the story begins, but it is where every necessary fiction tumbles and unfurls out […]