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Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction. Unlike traditional print magazines like Asimov's or Analog, it releases online fiction that can be read free of charge. [1] Reactor was founded (as Tor.com) in July 2008 [2] and renamed Reactor on January 23, 2024. [3]
First issue of Amazing Stories, dated April 1926, cover art by Frank R. Paul. Science-fiction and fantasy magazines began to be published in the United States in the 1920s. . Stories with science-fiction themes had been appearing for decades in pulp magazines such as Argosy, but there were no magazines that specialized in a single genre until 1915, when Street & Smith, one of the major pulp ...
The magazine's editor Farnsworth Wright often used the term "weird fiction" to describe the type of material that the magazine published. [14] The writers who wrote for the magazine Weird Tales are thus closely identified with the weird fiction subgenre, especially H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber and Robert Bloch. [1]
In 1926, Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories, the first magazine to publish only science fiction.The magazine was an immediate success, and in order to take advantage of its popularity Gernsback considered either increasing the frequency of Amazing Stories to twice a month, or taking the year's most popular stories from the magazine, and publishing them in an annual reprint edition. [1]
Overall, the magazine focused more on magic than on fiction, but the stories chosen were readable. [1] The weird and occult fiction genre was dominated by Weird Tales in the years before World War II; [ 2 ] Tales of Magic and Mystery and Ghost Stories were the only two magazines to attempt to rival Weird Tales in the years before 1931, [ 3 ...
Abyss & Apex Magazine (A&A) is a long-running, semi-pro online speculative fiction magazine. The title of the zine comes from a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), "And if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Zoetrope: All-Story sponsors an annual writing contest for short fiction. The contest has been judged by writers Joyce Carol Oates, Colum McCann [3] Mary Gaitskill and Tommy Orange. [4] The winner and finalists' stories are forwarded to leading literary agencies. The winning story is often published in an online supplement to the magazine.