Online Magazines

Adventitious

• Scott Beggs, ed.
• Issue #3, June/July 2026, some stories free online, or $5.49 per issue, bimonthly.
• A speculative fiction magazine that “hopes to be an intelligent mischievous literary magazine for the curious and unclassifiable” with fiction by M.A. Carrick, Clint Hannah-Lopez, Amanda Helms, and others. Cover by heron dawley.

Apex Magazine

• Lesley Conner, ed.
• Issue #153, May 2026, free on­line or $4.99 per issue; bimonthly. SF/fantasy/horror magazine.
• Fiction by Claire Jia-Wen, Beth Dawkins, Debbie Urbanski, and others; interviews; and articles. Cover by Valentina Paz.

Aurealis 

• Stephen Higgins, ed., Cat Sparks, guest ed.
• No. 190, May 2026, $3.99 digital, 10 times a year (every month except January and December). Australian SF/F magazine.
• This issue includes fiction from Brendan Cottam, Donna Lee Austin, and Dominic Deveny-Borg; essays; an interview, and reviews. Cover by Harveys Art.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• Issue #456, April 30, 2026, free online, biweekly. Literary fantasy/adventure magazine.
• This issue includes stories by Alma Alexander, Tamara Vardomskaya, and Cara Masten DiGirolamo. Cover by Anthony Avon.

Black Cat Weekly

• John Betancourt, ed.
• Issue #242, $2.99 digital, weekly. SF and mystery digital magazine with original and reprinted stories. This issue has stories by Ray Cummings, Sam Merwin, Jr., Michael Randle, and others. Cover by Ron Miller.
• Issue #243 includes fiction by Robert J. Pearsall, Lois Metzger, Manly Wade Wellman, and others. Cover by Stephen Hickman.
• Issue #244 features work by Phyllis Anne Karr, Michael Avallone, John Jakes, and others. Cover by Steve Hickman.
• Issue #245 has fiction by Mack Reynolds, Richard Wilson, Teel James Glenn, and others. Cover by Steve Hickman.
• Issue #246 includes work by Ron Miller, Adrian Cole, Wallace West and others. Cover by Ron Miller.

Clarkesworld

• Neil Clarke, ed.
• Issue ##236, May 2026, free online or $3.99 digital/$13.99 print + digital, monthly.
• SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from Louis Inglis Hall, Tia Tashiro, Nick Wolven, and others; essays; and interviews. Cover by Lisa Falkenstern.

Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores 

• Fran Eisemann, ed.
• April/May 2026, free online. Genre fiction magazine with stories, podcast and reviews.
• In April, the site posted a story by P.N. Udochi, and more.

The Dark

• Sean Wal­lace, ed.
• Issue #132, May 2026, free online or digital available for $1.99-$2.99, monthly. Dark fantasy and horror magazine.
• This issue includes fiction by NM Whitley, Nelson Stanley, Kelsea Yu, and Ai Jiang. Cover by Joe Therasakdhi.

The Deadlands

• E. Catherine Tobler, ed.
• Issue No. 42, Spring 2026, $6.99 digital, quarterly, 84pp, 12½ x 20½ cm. The Deadlands explores “all aspects of Death and the borders it shares with the living.”
• This issue includes stories by A.E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, Maya Ysabel Ng, and others; non-fiction; and poetry. Cover by Dory Whynot.

Escape Artists

• Five weekly podcasts: Es­cape Pod <escapepod.org/> Valerie Valdes & Mur Lafferty, eds. (SF), Pod­Castle <podcastle.org/> Shingai Njeri Kagunda & Eleanor R. Wood, eds. (fantasy), PseudoPod <pseudopod.org/> Shawn Garrett & Alex Hofelich, eds. (horror), Cast of Wonders <www.castofwonders.org> Katherine Inskip, ed. (YA) and CatsCast <escapeartists.net/catscast/> Laura Pearlman, ed. (speculative fiction cat stories).
• Free online. Genre podcasts of both original and previously published stories with accompanying text.

Flash Point SF

• Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser, eds.
• April -May 2026, free online, biweekly. Flash fiction SF and fantasy site.
• In April and May, the site posted short fiction by Moh Afdhaal, Marie Brennan, and others.

Foofaraw

• Kevin Kortum, ed.
• Issue #008 May 2026, free online or $4.00 digital, monthly, 74pp. “A zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations” with fiction, observations, and author interviews.
• This issue includes stories by Maureen Bowden, H.C. Ricci, Anna Chung, and L.N. Hunter. Cover by Brendan Loper.

Galaxy Science Fiction 

• Justin T. O’Conor Sloane, ed.
• Issue #264, Vol 2, No.1, $14.99 print, April 2026, 198pp, 14 x 21½ cm.
• Contemporary revival of Galaxy magazine with stories by Grant Carrington, Robert Silverberg, John Shirley, Robert Jeschonek, and others; interviews; poetry; articles; and art. Cover by Marianne Plumridge.

Lightspeed Magazine

• John Joseph Ad­ams, ed.
• Issue #192, May 2026, free online or $4.99 ebook, monthly.
• Online SF/fantasy magazine with fiction from Sam W. Pisciotta, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Melissa A Watkins, Ada Hoffmann, and others; author spotlights; and reviews. Cover by Warmtail.

Mysterion

• Donald S. Crankshaw & Kristin Janz, eds.
• May – June 2026, free online or via Patreon, bimonthly. Online magazine presenting stories that engage “meaningfully with Christianity…although not exclusively from a Christian perspective.”
• May – June features stories by Larry Ferrill and Rod A. White. Cover by André Mata.

Nightmare Magazine

• Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
• Issue #164, May 2026, free online or $3.99 ebook, monthly.
• Horror/dark fantasy magazine with fiction by Sarah Grey, Audrey Coble, and Bruce McAllister; author spotlights; an interview; non-fiction, and poetry. Cover by Gareth / Adobe Stock.

Reactor

• Various eds.
• April/May 2026, free online.
• Macmillan house site publishing fiction and articles including original fiction from Louis Evans, Christopher Rowe, Daria Lavelle, John Langan, J.R. Dawson, and others; novel excerpts; rereads/rewatches of novels and television shows; news, reviews; articles, commentary; and interviews.

Samovar

• Sarah Dodd, Laura Friis & Greg West eds.
• April 27, 2026, free, quarterly. Special quarterly issue of Strange Horizons with translated speculative fiction in both English and its original language.
• This issue has fiction by Moon Young Park (Paige Aniyah Morris, trans.) and Lu Qiucha (Hal Y. Zhang, trans); plus poetry.

Small Planet

• Rachel Cordasco, ed.
• Issue #1, May 2026, free, quarterly.
• Premiere issue of a new magazine focusing on SF in translation with “interviews with translators, columns on forthcoming books, reviews of older and newer SFT, wish-lists of books we’d like translated into English, reports from countries around the world on their SF scenes, and so much more.”
• The first issue includes pieces by Cheryl Morgan, Cristina Jurado, Alex Shvartsman, and others.

Speculative Insight

• Alexandra Pierce, ed.
• April/May 2026, free/paid, monthly. Online literary journal that publishes two nonfiction essays a month (one free and one subscriber-only) that “…explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy.”
• This month’s essays are by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Praise Afolabi.

Strange Horizons

• Gautam Bhatia, et al., eds.
• April/May 2026, free, weekly.
• Speculative fiction magazine with fiction by Jamie McGhee, Audrey Zhou, aegor ray, Dhiyanah Hassan, and others; poetry; non-fiction; columns; articles; and reviews. New issues are posted each Monday. Covers