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–presentStrange Horizons Masthead: http://strangehorizons.com/masthead/
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 Website2002http://www.strangehorizons.com2005Hugo–Best Semiprozine2013Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, Dave Nadgeman, Abigail Nussbaum, AJ Odasso, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe2014Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Shane Gavin, Anaea Lay, Brit Mandelo, Abigail Nussbaum, AJ Odasso, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe2015Niall Harrison, editor-in-chief2016Catherine Krahe, AJ Odasso, Vanessa Rose Phin, Julia Rios, Maureen Kincaid Speller, eds.2017Niall Harrison, ed., with additional editors Vajra Chandrasekera, Li Chua, Catherine Krahe, Anaea Lay, Tim Moore, AJ Odasso, Vanessa Rose Phin, Aishwarya Subramanian (and the Strange Horizons staff)2018Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia, AJ Odasso (additional editors: Lila Garrott, Heather McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia Day, Vanessa Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff)2019ed. by Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, with Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra Chandrasekera, AJ Odasso, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller (and the Strange Horizons Staff)2020Vanessa Rose Phin, with Joyce Chng, Dan Hartland, Catherine Krahe, Dante Luiz, AJ Odasso (and the Strange Horizons staff)2021Vanessa Rose Phin, et al.2022The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective2023The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective2024The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective2025The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective2026The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective Retrieved 2026-08-31.Ignyte AwardCommunity Award2026 Strange HorizonsWorld Fantasy AwardWFA–Non-Professional2007Susan Marie Groppi2010Susan Marie Groppi2022Vanessa Rose Phin, Gautam BhatiaBritish Fantasy AwardBFA– Magazine/Periodical2011Susan Marie Groppi, Niall Harrison2016Niall Harrison2021Vanessa Rose PhinLocus AwardsLocus–Magazine2006Strange Horizons2007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022Locus–Editor2006Susan Marie Groppi200720082016Niall Harrison
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See also Fantasy fiction magazine Science fiction magazine
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