Notices by Uncanny Magazine (uncannymagazine@mastodon.social)

Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll?

Try the short story "The Feast of Baku & the Yume no Seirei" by Cheri Kamei!

You can read it here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-feast-of-baku-the-yume-no-seirei/

Congratulations to Naomi Kritzer! Naomi Kritzer's “The Year Without Sunshine” won the 2024 Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Award for Best International Novelette! You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/

Writers! All of the Uncanny Magazine short story submissions have gone through initial processing. Any remaining stories are with the Editors-in-Chief for their final decisions. Thank you again for your patience as we battled the AI deluge!

New essay! "Growing Up in Fiction" by Yamile Saied Méndez!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/growing-up-in-fiction/

WRITERS! PLEASE SHARE FAR AND WIDE!!! Uncanny Magazine IS OPEN to story submissions until September 2 (750-10,000 words)! We can't wait to read your marvelous stories!! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the short story "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" by P. Djèlí Clark! It's a Hugo finalist for Best Short Story and won the BSFA & Locus Awards! Read it in the Hugo Award packets or here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/how-to-raise-a-kraken-in-your-bathtub/

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the short story "The Mausoleum’s Children" by Aliette de Bodard! It's a Hugo Award finalist for Best Short Story and a Locus Award finalist! Read it in the Hugo Award packets or here!
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-mausoleums-children/

Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the novelette "The Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer! It's a Hugo finalist for Best Novelette, a Locus, Eugie, & Sturgeon finalist, & Nebula Award winner! Read it in the Hugo Award packets or here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/

Congratulations to R.S.A. Garcia! R.S.A. Garcia's “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” won the Best Short Story Nebula Award! You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tantie-merle-and-the-farmhand-4200/

Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Or just spreading the word! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/support-uncanny/

Please RT! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from February 19-26! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

New story! "A Piece of the Continent" by Marissa Lingen!

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-piece-of-the-continent/

If you want to see @lynnemthomas 's thread about Pre-code films and cocktails, as promised for the @UncannyMagazine Year 10 Kickstarter, here's the link! https://twitter.com/lynnemthomas/status/1684022622038753280?s=20

Also, consider backing us! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/uncanny-magazine-year-10-a-decade-of-delightful-defiance

The next stretch goal in the Uncanny Magazine Year 10: A Decade of Delightful Defiance @KickstarterRead is including a Flash Fiction story in every issue! If you are enjoying our flash fiction stories, please help us reach this goal to keep them! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/uncanny-magazine-year-10-a-decade-of-delightful-defiance

Space Unicorns! You did it! The Uncanny Magazine Year 10: A Decade of Delightful Defiance @KickstarterRead reached its initial funding goal! THE WILL BE A 10TH YEAR OF @UncannyMagazine! Let's now reach some stretch goals!!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/uncanny-magazine-year-10-a-decade-of-delightful-defiance