Strange Horizons

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.

Strange Horizons

Editor-in-chief	Gautam Bhatia
Former editors	Jane Crowley Kate Dollarhyde Niall Harrison Susan Marie Groppi Mary Anne Mohanraj
Categories	Speculative fiction
Frequency	Weekly
Founder	Mary Anne Mohanraj
First issue	September 2000 (2000-09)
Based in	Utah
Language	English
Website	strangehorizons.com
OCLC	56474213

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."^[1] The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj.^[2] It is registered with the IRS as 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.^[3] 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^[4]
• Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019^[5]
• Vanessa Rose Phin, 2019–2021^[6]
• Gautam Bhatia, 2021–present^[7]

Awards

Susan Marie Groppi won the World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional in 2010 for her work as Editor-in-Chief on Strange Horizons.^[8] The magazine itself was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Website in 2002^[9] and 2005.^[10] 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.^[11]

The short story "The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum, published in 2006^[12] in the magazine, was nominated for a 2007 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.^[13] "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.^[14] Three stories published in Strange Horizons have won the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Awards to magazine and editors

Award	Category	Year	Nominee	Result	Ref
Hugo Award	Hugo–Best Website	2002	http://www.strangehorizons.com	Nominated	[15]
		2005		Nominated	[16]
	Hugo–Best Semiprozine	2013	Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, Dave Nadgeman, Abigail Nussbaum, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe	Nominated	[17]
		2014	Niall Harrison, with Rebecca Cross, Shane Gavin, Anaea Lay, Brit Mandelo, Abigail Nussbaum, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe	Nominated	[18]
		2015	Niall Harrison, editor-in-chief	Nominated	[19]
		2016	Catherine Krahe, A. J. Odasso, Vanessa Rose Phin, Julia Rios, Maureen Kincaid Speller, eds.	Nominated	[20]
		2017	Niall Harrison, ed., with additional editors Vajra Chandrasekera, Li Chua, Catherine Krahe, Anaea Lay, Tim Moore, Vanessa Rose Phin, Aishwarya Subramanian (and the Strange Horizons staff)	Nominated	[21]
		2018	Kate Dollarhyde, Gautam Bhatia & A. J. Odasso (additional editors: Lila Garrott, Heather McDougal, Ciro Faienza, Tahlia Day, Vanessa Rose Phin, and the Strange Horizons staff)	Nominated	[22]
		2019	ed. by Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, with Vanessa Rose Phin, Vajra Chandrasekera, Romie Stott, Maureen Kincaid Speller (and the Strange Horizons Staff)	Nominated	[23]
		2020	Vanessa Rose Phin, with Joyce Chng, Dan Hartland, Catherine Krahe, Dante Luiz, A. J. Odasso (and the Strange Horizons staff)	Nominated	[24]
		2021	Vanessa Rose Phin, et al.	Nominated	[25]
		2022	The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective	Nominated	[26]
		2023	The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective	Nominated
		2024	The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective	Won
		2025	The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective	Nominated
World Fantasy Award	WFA–Non-Professional	2007	Susan Marie Groppi	Nominated	[27]
		2010	Susan Marie Groppi	Won	[28]
		2022	Vanessa Rose Phin, Gautam Bhatia	Nominated	[29]
British Fantasy Award	BFA– Magazine/Periodical	2011	Susan Marie Groppi, Niall Harrison	Nominated	[30]
		2016	Niall Harrison	Nominated	[31]
		2021	Vanessa Rose Phin	Won	[32]
Locus Awards	Locus–Magazine	2006	Strange Horizons	Nominated–8th	[33]
		2007		Nominated–4th
		2008		Nominated–9th
		2009		Nominated–10th
		2010		Nominated–6th
		2011		Nominated–7th
		2012		Nominated–8th
		2013		Nominated–8th
		2014		Nominated–9th
		2015		Nominated–7th
		2016		Nominated–10th
		2017		Nominated–9th
		2018		Nominated–7th
		2019		Nominated–9th
		2020		Nominated–8th
		2021		Nominated–7th
		2022		Nominated–7th
	Locus–Editor	2006	Susan Marie Groppi	Nominated–27th	[34]
		2007		Nominated–20th	[35]
		2008		Nominated–23rd	[36]
		2016	Niall Harrison	Nominated–28th	[37]

Content

See also

• Fantasy fiction magazine
• Science fiction magazine