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River (They/them) is a US poet of the Appalachia diaspora who encourages everyone to speak out against the active genocide occurring in Palestine. You can find them at Chillsubs and Substack.

River in our archives

The Egg, Poetry, Issue 27 January 2025

Blurbs for forthcoming genre poetry books

By: David Clink
By: Troy Harkin

This is poetry that matters. Period. Exclamation mark.

The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company

By: Steve Wheat

the porcelain white sparkles of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 19: On Cozy Horrors

By: Dan Hartland
By: Shannon Fay
By: Marisa Mercurio

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland is joined by Shannon Fay and Marisa Mercurio to discuss horror, and especially its cozy variety.

Monday: 2025 In Review: Part One

By: Our Reviewers

Wednesday: 2025 In Review: Part Two

By: Our Reviewers

Friday: 2025 In Review: Part Three

Strange Horizons

Issue 22 Dec 2025

By: Namita Krishnamurthy

The World To Come

By: Jennifer Hudak

O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING

By: Joemario Umana

Articles, Non-Fiction

Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative Salon

By: Ada Palmer
By: Charlie Jane Anders

Monday: What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker

By: Octavia Cade

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Wednesday: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi

By: Duncan Lawie

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Friday: Startlement by Ada Limón

By: Amy Nagopaleen

Issue 15 Dec 2025

Open Fiction Submissions Window January 19th

Strange Horizons

The ghosts of me are in your machine

By: R.B. Lemberg

Skull-God — A Broadcast from the Trenches

By: Yucheng Tao

By: Emily Woodworth

Monday: Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby

By: Marisa Mercurio

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Wednesday: The Deep Forest by Sofía Rhei, translated by Kendal Simmons

By: Seamus Sullivan

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Friday: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

By: Safia H. Senhaji

Issue 8 Dec 2025

Captain’s Lay Back

By: Jeané D. Ridges

Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed.

By: Maya Wristen

Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog'

By: Parker Peevyhouse
Podcast read by: Michael Ireland

Monday: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

By: Roseanna Pendlebury

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Wednesday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

By: Rachel Cordasco

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Friday: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

By: Shannon Fay

Issue 1 Dec 2025

I Wish You Died Laughing

By: Lio Abendan

Excerpt From the Memoirs of a Saint

Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b

By: Colleen S. Harris

Azimuth, Editorials

For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility

By: the Strange Horizons staff

Critical Friends, Non-Fiction, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 18: On Fantasy and History

By: Dan Hartland
By: Nick Hubble
By: Cameron Miguel

Monday: Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp

By: William Shaw

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Wednesday: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

By: David Lewis

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Friday: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

By: Nileena Sunil

Issue 24 Nov 2025

A Song from Kulara

By: Jayasri Sridhar

Strands of Feelings

By: A. A. Ademola

Articles, Non-Fiction

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

By: Tanvir Ahmed

Articles, Non-Fiction

Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories From The Radio: The Revolt of the Worms

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

Podcasts, Writing While Disabled

Ageism and Ableism at Conventions (Writing While Disabled S2E5A)

By: Kate Johnston
By: Kristy Anne Cox

Monday: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

By: Nick Hubble

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Wednesday: A Granite Silence by Nina Allan

By: David Hebblethwaite

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Friday: Talamasca: The Secret Order

Issue 17 Nov 2025

Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast

By: Jessy Randall

The Face Stealer Tells Me What Emptiness Feels Like

By: Sean Glatch

Podcasts, SH@25

Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)

By: Kat Kourbeti
By: R.B. Lemberg

Monday: The Curators by Maggie Nye

By: Roy Salzman-Cohen

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Wednesday: Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago

By: Shannon Fay

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Friday: We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris

By: Ian J. Simpson

Issue 10 Nov 2025

The Patience of the Equator

By: Brishbhanu Baruah

618 Days in Longsleep

By: Mahaila Smith

Podcast: The Spindle of Necessity

By: B. Pladek
Podcast read by: Arden Fitzroy

Monday: Colourfields by Paul Kincaid

By: Shinjini Dey

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Wednesday: Making History by K. J. Parker

By: Cameron Miguel

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Friday: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

By: Eric Hendel

Issue 3 Nov 2025

By: Melissa A Watkins

By: Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi

sijo from a spaceship escaping a dying planet

By: Annie Bolger

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully

By: Dan Hartland
By: Paul March-Russell
By: Jacqueline Nyathi

Monday: Eat the Ones you Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

By: Nileena Sunil

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Wednesday: The Demon by Victory Witherkeigh

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Friday: Field Of Frights by Christina Hagmann

By: Racheal Chie

Issue 20 Oct 2025

ERROR 404: Expiation Not Found

By: Eleanor Ball

Bullet Time at the Kink Party

Podcasts, SH@25

A Masterclass in Writing (and Finding Love) with Tim Melody Pratt (SH@25 Episode 16)

By: Tim Pratt
By: Kat Kourbeti

Podcasts, Writing While Disabled

Velociraptor Space Army (S2E4 Special Episode)

By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston

Monday: The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq

By: Kyle R. Garton

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Wednesday: Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith

By: Vivian Wagner

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Friday: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce

By: Tristan Beiter

Issue 13 Oct 2025

The Orchard Village Catalog

By: Parker Peevyhouse

Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!

By: Bree Wernicke

Podcast: City Grown From Seed

By: Diana Dima
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie

Monday: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken

By: Akankshya Abismruta

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Wednesday: Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek, translated by Kasia Bedford

By: Dawn Macdonald

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Friday: Blood of the Old Kings (The Bleeding Empire Volume 1) by Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur

By: Rachel Cordasco

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