Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizonshttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mrcjucuh6227Digital Black Lung by Chris Dolan "I have scraped food into the bin and been wounded by the mouths which would open for it." Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/digital-black-lung/23 Jul 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcjucuh6227https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mr2xbc62xs27The 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! 🎉20 Jul 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr2xbc62xs27https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqzulvck4c25The reviews are in! The Mulai by Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches  reviewed by Dawn Macdonald Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/the-mulai-by-munir-hachemi-translated-by-julia-sanches/19 Jul 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzulvck4c25https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqz2xi6fz22bCommunion: 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 ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/communion-an-elegy/19 Jul 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqz2xi6fz22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqwze5kgus2zGuillotine  by Max Franciscovich "You meet who you might call your lodestar at a campus party you did not want to attend." Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/guillotine/18 Jul 2026 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwze5kgus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqtgdaoxuc2z‼️ 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 ⬇️ https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/strange-horizons/strange-horizons-2027-fundraiser17 Jul 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtgdaoxuc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqq2hhyon22rA 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 ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/our-love-is-a-fiction-demanding-to-be-future/16 Jul 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqq2hhyon22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqmym4qpok2c📣 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! 👀) [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jul 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmym4qpok2chttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqjco2lwuk2pThe 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 ⬇️ https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/strange-horizons/strange-horizons-2027-fundraiser13 Jul 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjco2lwuk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqiey24adc2pThe reviews are in! Angel Down by Daniel Kraus  reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/angel-down-by-daniel-kraus/12 Jul 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqiey24adc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqg2ex3cx22eIn 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 ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/podcasts/critical-friends-episode-25-reading-queerly/12 Jul 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqg2ex3cx22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqezjsebxs2cHelp another great speculative fiction mag fund year 6! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqezjsebxs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqckvvilts2pMy 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 ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/my-dog-is-a-fish/10 Jul 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqckvvilts2phttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mqaxwxo2422uPromises, Promises  by Cara Masten DiGirolamo Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/promises-promises/10 Jul 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqaxwxo2422uhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mq7fgwpufc2lStrange 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 ⬇️ https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/strange-horizons/strange-horizons-2027-fundraiser [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jul 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7fgwpufc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mq4rncgzv225Hero Worship by Jessica Stritch "the middle of the story (notoriously problematic) is likely missing a little mortal peril" Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/hero-worship/08 Jul 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4rncgzv225https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpwntgdi7s26The reviews are in! Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times by Joe P. L. Davidson  reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/saving-utopia-imagining-hopeful-futures-in-dystopian-times-by-joe-p-l-davidson/05 Jul 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpwntgdi7s26https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpt5i64wvc2kStrange Horizons is currently $1350 from our base goal of $22,000! Help us get over this initial hurdle and into our first stretch goal which will be raising our 2027 pay rates from 8c/word to 9c/word! Donate over on BackerKit ⬇️ https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/strange-horizons/strange-horizons-2027-fundraiser04 Jul 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpt5i64wvc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpqwms25cc25The Wisdom of the Galaxy by Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social "...I asked Roz what the aliens looked like, and he glanced at me like I was an idiot and said “birds.” “They’re birds?” I’d pressed, and he said that obviously they were birds..." Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-wisdom-of-the-galaxy/03 Jul 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqwms25cc25https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpp53zwpn22eA Brightness Queering Everything: The Haunting Potential of Animal Worlds in Vandermeer, Jones, and Shelley  by Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/a-brightness-queering-everything-the-haunting-potential-of-animal-worlds-in-vandermeer-jones-and-shelley/02 Jul 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpp53zwpn22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpnswbdzlc22New tiers at the Fund Drive including - a signed copy of Yoke of Stars by RB Lemberg - a crocheted Pikachu dumpling by Regalli, a friend of Strange Horizons You can also sponsor a work directly! Become a patron of poetry, reviews, fiction and art today! Link ⬇️ https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/strange-horizons/strange-horizons-2027-fundraiser02 Jul 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnswbdzlc22https://bsky.app/profile/strangehorizons.bsky.social/post/3mpmm66w53c2whaunting the homeowner by Hikari Leilani Miya "also, i’m haunting this home as a raccoon." Link ⬇️ https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/haunting-the-homeowner/01 Jul 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:sxw2th36klmpelvkrux2pa3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmm66w53c2w