A weekly magazine of and about speculative fiction. We publish fiction, poetry, reviews, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, and art.

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.

Vanessa Aguirre

Lila Garrott

AJ Odasso

Romie Stott

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Special note on translations: our quarterly sister magazine Samovar specializes in translations: we encourage you to submit all translations there first. Samovar and Strange Horizons have independent submissions queues and different editors, and submissions to either magazine are only read for that magazine.

We pay artists $200 for an original work to accompany a story, and $100 in the event that we use a piece from an artist's already existing portfolio.

For fiction: Payment of 10¢/word USD, within 60 days of contract.

We pay: $50 for a column, $40 for a reprinted essay, $150 for an original essay, $45 to an interviewer, and $45 to an interviewee. $20 to a roundtable moderator, and $20 to each other contributor


We pay $50 for reviews of at least 1000 words. 

We want to showcase work that challenges us and delights us, by new and established writers from diverse backgrounds and with diverse concerns.

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Makena Metz writes for the page, screen, and stage. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Chapman University and is a proud member of DGA, ASCAP, WIA, Maestra, and the SCL. Makena’s work has been published with Wordgathering, the Literary Hatchet, The Fantastic Other, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Strange Horizons, Arkana, and many others. Find her work on Coverfly, New Play Exchange, or Chillsubs and follow her @ makenametz on social media or check out makenametz.com

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children are like fungus—
alive, that’s something
you can say about them.

increase

now, i’m no particular fan of the “walk with me” set piece

career advice is nothing you can’t fix with a phone call from the comfort of your own block

and yet: sincere children always have to be closing

one year before the time jump

"Who said small town folks like us couldn't fly? We did it / Basement and all"

The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882

Each night I bid good evening to the great mass in my closet

Waiting

"In The Kingston Cycle, alternating currents of painful service and intentional joy power the work of change."

book review: "Soulstar, by C.L. Polk"

"I tell him there is much that goes into the science beyond beakers—I’ll soon write Blue /
Like Me to challenge notions of language, gender, and species, and the white /
nationalists can panic that not only am I blue and mutant but also gay."

Codename Beast: a sestina

"I see the smooth dip in surface
where pectorals meet a ribcage
and I envision into existence two scars
perhaps still fresh with stitch marks.
his stone sling slung over one shoulder,
a colossal right hand curled around a mystery..."

Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars

"...the demon boy summoned a fog my own brother stumbled through..."

魔神仔 (Móshénzǐ)

o, promise me an otherworld that is both a buzzing
bouquet of moon-winged butterflies

and perennial. a stream of snapshots
slipping against each other

queer-pastoral, somewhere in the slipstream

EPISTOLARY POEM

Equinox

Body Revolt

They’re world-class rappers
Unlikely toe tappers
Popping and locking
Gotten this whole place rocking
Not sure if I’m getting chills
‘cause they’ve got some skills—

Or ‘cause they’re about to crush us
and make sure death don’t only brush us!

Rap(tors) EP

"Here it is, this haunted house, smaller than my thumb. As I press my eye to it, I perceive in this order: a window, a rose bush, a fish, a belly, a thorn."

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