for the unaware:

Strange Horizons is a speculative fiction magazine, available free online, published every Monday. We began in September 2000. In the last year, Strange Horizons and our translation-focused sibling magazine, Samovar, have published nearly a million words of speculative fiction, poetry, essays, round tables, interviews, and reviews.

Since our inception, we have been entirely funded by voluntary contributions, both from readers and the volunteer labor of our editors. We pay all authors and artists fair market rates for their work, and want to continue doing so in the coming years.

their stretch goals for 2024:

• At $12,500, we will publish a special issue on Japanese Speculative Fiction, guest-edited by Terrie Hashimoto, the managing editor of Rikka Zine.

• At $15,000, we will raise our column rates to $75 per column.

• At $17,000, we will publish a special issue on SFF and Neurodiversity.

• At $18,500, we will publish a special issue themed on Body Horror.

• At $20,000 we will raise rates for reviews to $60 per review.

• At $24,000 we’ll host a virtual panel with Strange Horizons editors and contributors. All backers will be invited to attend and submit questions for the Q&A!

• At $30,000 we will commission additional pieces of artwork in 2024.