''Strange Horizons'' is an

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magazine. It also features speculative poetry and

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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

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. 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 *

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, 2010–2017 * Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019 * Vanessa Rose Phin, 2019–2021 * Gautam Bhatia, 2021–present

Awards

Susan Marie Groppi won the

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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 Benjamin Rosenbaum (born August 23, 1969) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction writer, game designer, and computer programmer. His stories and novels have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore ...

, published in 2006 in the magazine, was nominated for a 2007

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. " 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

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Awards to magazine and editors

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References

External links

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