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Strange Horizons

Online speculative fiction magazine

Summary

Online speculative fiction magazine

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editorGautam Bhatia
editor_titleEditor-in-chief
previous_editorJane Crowley
Kate Dollarhyde
Niall Harrison
Susan Marie Groppi
Mary Anne Mohanraj
categorySpeculative fiction
frequencyWeekly
founderMary Anne Mohanraj
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languageEnglish
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Kate Dollarhyde Niall Harrison Susan Marie Groppi Mary Anne Mohanraj Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and non-fiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables.

History and profile

It was launched in September 2000, and publishes new material (fiction, articles, reviews, poetry, and/or art) 51 weeks of the year, with an emphasis on "new, underrepresented, and global voices." The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj. It is registered with the IRS as 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It has a staff of approximately sixty volunteers, and is unusual among professional speculative fiction magazines in being funded entirely by donations, holding annual fund drives.

Editors-in-chief

  • Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2000–2003
  • Susan Marie Groppi, 2004–2010
  • Niall Harrison, 2010–2017
  • Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019
  • Vanessa Rose Phin, 2019–2021
  • Gautam Bhatia, 2021–present

Awards

Susan Marie Groppi won the World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional in 2010 for her work as Editor-in-Chief on Strange Horizons. The magazine itself was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Website in 2002 and 2005. The magazine won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 2024, after being a finalist every year from 2013 onward. Strange Horizons won The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre, presented by the Ignyte Awards, in 2020.

The short story "The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum, published in 2006 in the magazine, was nominated for a 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2014. Other stories in Strange Horizons have been nominated for the Nebula and other awards. Three stories published in Strange Horizons have won the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Awards to magazine and editors

AwardCategoryYearNomineeResultRefHugo AwardHugo–Best Website20022005Hugo–Best Semiprozine2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025World Fantasy AwardWFA–Non-Professional200720102022British Fantasy AwardBFA–201120162021Locus AwardsLocus–Magazine20062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022Locus–Editor2006200720082016
http://www.strangehorizons.com
Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, Dave Nadgeman, Abigail Nussbaum, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe
Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Shane Gavin, Anaea Lay, Brit Mandelo, Abigail Nussbaum, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe
Niall Harrison, editor-in-chief
Catherine Krahe, A. J. Odasso, Vanessa Rose Phin, Julia Rios, Maureen Kincaid Speller, eds.
Niall Harrison, ed., with additional editors Vajra Chandrasekera, Li Chua, Catherine Krahe, Anaea Lay, Tim Moore, Vanessa Rose Phin, Aishwarya Subramanian (and the Strange Horizons staff)
Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia & A. J. Odasso (additional editors: Lila Garrott, Heather McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia Day, Vanessa Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff)
ed. by Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, with Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra Chandrasekera, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller (and the Strange Horizons Staff)
Vanessa Rose Phin, with Joyce Chng, Dan Hartland, Catherine Krahe, Dante Luiz, A. J. Odasso (and the Strange Horizons staff)
Vanessa Rose Phin, et al.
The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
Susan Marie Groppi
Susan Marie Groppi
Vanessa Rose Phin, Gautam Bhatia
Susan Marie Groppi, Niall Harrison
Niall Harrison
Vanessa Rose Phin
Strange Horizons
Susan Marie Groppi
Niall Harrison

Content

References

References

  1. (March 20, 2019). "Fond Farewells".
  2. (June 13, 2014). "A digital renaissance for the science fiction short story".
  3. (9 May 2013). "Strange Horizons Inc - Nonprofit Explorer".
  4. Harrison, Niall. (April 3, 2017). "Moving On".
  5. Glyer, Mike. (3 April 2017). "Strange Horizons Announces New Editors-in-Chief".
  6. Phin, Vanessa Rose. (March 20, 2019). "Fond Farewells".
  7. ''Strange Horizons'' Masthead: http://strangehorizons.com/masthead/
  8. Locus Publications. (October 31, 2010). "World Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus Online News.
  9. (September 2, 2002). "2002 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards.
  10. (24 July 2007). "2005 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards.
  11. (24 February 2021). "2020 Ignyte Awards Results".
  12. Elena, Lara. "Strange Horizons Fiction: The House Beyond Your Sky, by Benjamin Rosenbaum, illustration by Vladimir Vitkovsky". Strange Horizons.
  13. (9 August 2007). "2007 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards.
  14. (July 9, 2012). "Strange Horizons Awards". Strange Horizons.
  15. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2002".
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  17. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2013".
  18. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2014".
  19. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2015".
  20. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2016".
  21. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2017".
  22. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2018".
  23. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2019".
  24. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2020".
  25. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2021".
  26. "sfadb: Hugo Awards 2022".
  27. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2007".
  28. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2010".
  29. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2022".
  30. "sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2011".
  31. "sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2016".
  32. "sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2021".
  33. "Award Category: Best Magazine (Locus Poll Award)".
  34. "sfadb: Locus Awards 2006".
  35. "sfadb: Locus Awards 2007".
  36. "sfadb: Locus Awards 2008".
  37. "Award Category: Best Editor (Locus Poll Award)".
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