Magazines

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (lovingly– and mercifully– abbreviated as F&SF wherever possible) is a digest-sized (think Reader’s Digest or Prevention, or the old TV Guide) magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy short stories, book and movie reviews, an occasional related non-fiction article, and cartoons.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction started an editorial blog. The magazine has been one of the mainstays of genre fiction for decades. "Here you’ll find news about the magazine, interviews with our contributors, contests and giveaways, and other fun stuff."

Fantasy Magazine makes the switch to online delivery. Free, so far as I can tell. Interviews, reviews and original fiction. Current issue has stories by Andrea Kale, Cat Rambo and others. Plus, every Friday a comment contest. Submit a comment on fantasy — a rant, a review, a story — in an open post. They'll choose the day's most entertaining writer and PayPal them $10 on the spot.

The driving force behind The International Literary Quarterly is that it be a broad church in the world of letters, a forum for outstanding poetry and prose, whether in its original version or in translation, and for criticism that is trenchant and thought-provoking. The first issue is online. I don't know if it has a print counterpart or not.

Every week Hub Magazine will publish a piece of short fiction, along with at least one review (book,
DVD, film, audio, or TV series) and we’ll also have the occasional feature, too. Free. Online.

From Nancy Kress, award winning author of S.F. and a writing teacher: "Some of the stories I see in class seem to me better than some of the ones I see in the magazines. You have to be better at the beginning of your career than you do later on."

The New Haven Review of Books publishes reviews, essays, poems, and fiction. Everybody knows that newspapers are cutting book-review sections; that small presses are struggling; and that children these days spend all their time living in the world wide interweb. Sometimes the only proper response is to call your friends and neighbors, ask them to contribute stuff for free, and then publish it.

This is the name of a new publication that doesn’t know if it’s a literary magazine or an outdoor life magazine. Either way, the title has caused comment, as it hit the stands just days before the Virginia Tech shootings.