Uncanny Is Open to Submissions!

This is an old post. Please check the submission guidelines to see if we are currently open. Scribbling Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine is finally open to unsolicited submissions! We can’t wait to see your short stories and poems. We pay $.08 per word for short stories between 750-7500 words, and $30 per poem at any […]

Uncanny Mini Interview with Year One Contributor Amal El-Mohtar!

Amal El–Mohtar is the Nebula–nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of spontaneous short stories and poems written to the taste of twenty–eight different kinds of honey. She is a two–time winner of the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem, and edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry. Her work has […]

Uncanny Is Opening for Submissions on September 11, 2014

Uncanny is opening for submissions on September 11, 2014. You can also find this information on our Submissions page. Please note that this is a temporary procedure until our new website and submissions system are completed. # Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny is seeking passionate SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from […]

Uncanny Mini Interview with Year One Contributor Rose Lemberg!

Rose Lemberg was born in Ukraine, and lived in subarctic Russia and Israel before immigrating to the US. Her prose and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Unlikely Story, Interfictions, and other venues. She edits Stone Telling with Shweta Narayan. Rose has also edited two anthologies: Here, We Cross, a collection […]

Uncanny Preparing to Receive Submissions

The moment many of you have been waiting for is almost here: Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy is nearly ready to open for unsolicited submissions! We’re proud to announce that Uncanny has now filled its slots of Submissions Editors! Thank you to everyone who took the time to apply to be a Submissions Editor for Uncanny. We were […]

The Thomases SPIN FIRE!

Marvelous Space Unicorns! We hope you had a wonderful weekend. Back when we were approaching 100% funding, we promised that if we achieved it, we would film Managing Editor/Fire Spinner Michi Trota teaching Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas how to spin fire. Over Labor Day weekend, it happened. Extra thanks to Jesse Lex for taking the […]

The Uncanny Kickstarter Is Over, and We Reached ALL of Our Stretch Goals!

You Beautiful, Spectacular, Space Unicorns! We did it! The Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter is over, and we reached the final stretch goal with minutes to spare! 1018 Backers pledged $36,075! This means we’ll have a magazine with original covers by Tran Nguyen & Galen Dara, 2 additional essays per issue, and 2 additional stories per issue!   We’ll be […]

The Final Space Unicorn Uncanny Countdown!

You Spectacular Space Unicorns, With 24 hours to go in the Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter, we just hit our fourth stretch goal! Thanks to your generosity, we will be adding an additional story per issue! How amazing is that?!? We still have one more stretch goal of a 2nd additional story per issue. We can do […]

Uncanny Is Looking for Submissions Editors!

Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy is currently seeking to add Submissions Editors (often called slush readers). Uncanny is an online magazine that publishes Science Fiction and Fantasy and pays $.08 per word for new fiction. Our submission guidelines are here: http://uncannymag.com/submissions/. We will ask Submissions Editors to select unique and provocative, diverse, well-written stories from […]