Every Child A Changeling by Samantha Pellegrino "I sat up on one arm and peered into her crib. She was gone. In her place was wrapped a sallow, horned little boy." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

death to the phoenix metaphor by Kiki Em "survival is a fungus" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Bakotsu says his skin is our skin by Betsy Aoki art by Romie Stott "The secret of what a horse knows still bubbles and screams inside me." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The Tu-Chuan with No Name | 沒有名字的杜鵑 by Chen-Fu Hsu translated by Coco Zhou "On the edge of the island is a city where, because it is not far from the sea, every layer of sediment has a quality of softness like water." Link ⬇️ samovar.strangehorizons.com/2026/07/27/t...

Rapunzel | Златокоса by Jovana Simic Roussou translated by Jovana Simic Roussou "The very first thing she could recall was an improvised merry-go-round, a swarm of fireflies spinning over her cradle." Link ⬇️ samovar.strangehorizons.com/2026/07/29/r...

Strange Horizons invites you to read administrative and poetry editor @romiesays.bsky.social thoughts on internal AI policy in the supplemental issue. "Our process does not require consensus. The submissions guidelines of each department are different." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Imprisoned Lightning: Trust and AI-Generated Submissions

People keep asking for our AI policy. One editor points a finger at the moon.

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I’ve responded to all the June poetry subs to @strangehorizons.bsky.social. If you haven’t heard back, something went astray. Query us and we’ll figure it out.

The reviews are in! Man, Muse, Monster by Naomi Gibson  reviewed by Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Becoming State Equipment  by Hannan Khan "We hear it leak sometimes— chanting slithering between his teeth while he slumbers" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Burning Hope on Auntie Regina’s Breast by Chris Kuriata "Given Rebecca’s hunger for blood, our hopes being complimentary seemed unlikely, yet Auntie Regina’s blessing poured over us both from head to toe. Never before had I felt closer to my sister." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Digital Black Lung by Chris Dolan "I have scraped food into the bin and been wounded by the mouths which would open for it." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2027 raised $27,407. That's the second most ever and it's enough for us to pay 9c/word for fiction in 2027! We thank everyone for donating, recognising our efforts and continuing to support the SFFH community. We're excited to publish for another year! 🎉

The reviews are in! The Mulai by Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches  reviewed by Dawn Macdonald Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Communion: An Elegy by Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social "The shrieking of a thousand prophets and djinn, wailing for a land that was holy once" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Guillotine  by Max Franciscovich "You meet who you might call your lodestar at a campus party you did not want to attend." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

‼️ It's the final 10 hours of the Strange Horizons Fund Drive! ‼️ Help us with this final push! You can still support a poem, review or short story as a pledge or as an add-on! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Thank you for helping us hit $25k! With just under 2 days left on the fund drive, will you help us raise our pay rates to 10c/word? Still more rewards left on the Backerkit campaign 👀

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Less than two days left. Stretch goal to pay 9 cents a word has been hit! Let's get it to 10 cents.

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Two days left for the Strange Horizons fundraiser and we’re in sight of our final stretch goal: 10 cents a word for our fiction writers! Help us get there!

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

A visual poem this time! Our Love Is A Fiction Demanding To Be Future by Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social "IMAGINING Other LIVES Coming Along THE COSMIC DISTANCE LADDER" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

📣 3 days left and we're $210 away from 9c/word! 📣 Our first stretch goal towards keeping our fiction rates the same is almost here! (That's also $5210 away from 10c/word! 👀)

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Strange Horizons Fund Drive ends in 4 days! Increasing 2027 fiction rates to 9c/word is just $1520 away! You can still fund a poem, review or short story directly or secure one of our Fund Drive patches. If you've already donated, please share widely! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

The Strange Horizons Fund Drive ends in 4 days! Increasing 2027 fiction rates to 9c/word is just $1520 away! You can still fund a poem, review or short story directly or secure one of our Fund Drive patches. If you've already donated, please share widely! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

The reviews are in! Angel Down by Daniel Kraus  reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

In Critical Friends: Reading Queerly, Dean Leetal, William Shaw and Dan Hartland discuss how do, should, and can reviewers and critics interested in LGBTQ+ people and their representation approach texts both avowedly queer and apparently heteronormative? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Really nice to see Hikari Leilani Miya’s “haunting the homeowner” from @strangehorizons.bsky.social on this list of recs. If you haven’t read it yet: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

haunting the homeowner

the world is mine to touch. the world is mine to open. much to the annoyance of homeowners.

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Myna Chang@mynachang.bsky.social · 4w ago

POETRY recs from the wonderful Loren Maria Guay!! @nightgleaming.bsky.social

Help another great speculative fiction mag fund year 6!

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

My Dog is a Fish by Elizabeth Lee Vines "If all bodies, for that matter, remember the carbon of their tissues swinging from trees, honey dripping down fur" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Promises, Promises  by Cara Masten DiGirolamo Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Strange Horizons is fully funded ‼️ As it stands, we will only be able to offer 8c/word for fiction, down from the 10c/word in recent years. We want to keep those rates through our stretch goals: $25,000 - 9c/word $30,000 - 10c/word Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

backerkit.com

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We hope you love what we do! Please donate to keep us publishing in 2027! We literally can't do it without you. You can read more about Strange Horizons' journey into the SFFH sphere over on our BackerKit page! And while you're there, don't forget to donate! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

help a free-to-read SFF litmag meet and exceed their stretch goals! contributions past their stretch goals will go towards special regional issues that feature SFF from underrepresented parts of the world (a personal favorite, and meaningful as a writer from SEAsia!)

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.