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    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020): Fantasy Magazine, #61
    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020): Fantasy Magazine, #61
    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020): Fantasy Magazine, #61
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    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020): Fantasy Magazine, #61

    By Christie Yant and Arley Sorg

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    FANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales_and anything and everything in between. FANTASY is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader-we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.

     

    Welcome to issue sixty-one-and the triumphant return!-of FANTASY MAGAZINE! In this issue we have Shingai Njeri Kagunda's heartbreaking tale of a time-skipping sister told with a dash of poetry, "And This Is How to Stay Alive"; a surreal tale of perspective, "An Introduction" by Reina Hardy; May Chong's wildly fun and sensual werewolf fantasy poem, "things i love about my werewolf girlfriend"; "The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same," by Sarah Grey, a poem of heartbreak, survival, and friendship; Osahon Ize-Iyamu brings us a story of personal truth and potential in "To Look Forward"; Tamoha Sengupta gives a brief, vivid account of young love and pure rebellion in "Love Laws and a Locked Heart". All this, plus we have an interview with BURNING ROSES author S.L. Huang and author spotlights with two of our authors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdamant Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2020
    ISBN9781393976813
    Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020): Fantasy Magazine, #61

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      Fantasy Magazine, Issue 61 (November 2020) - Christie Yant

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Issue 61, November 2020

      FROM THE EDITORS

      Editorial, November 2020

      Arley Sorg and Christie Yant

      FICTION

      And This is How to Stay Alive

      Shingai Njeri Kagunda

      An Introduction

      Reina Hardy

      To Look Forward

      Osahon Ize-Iyamu

      Love Laws and a Locked Heart

      Tamoha Sengupta

      POETRY

      things i love about my werewolf girlfriend

      May Chong

      The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same

      Sarah Grey

      NONFICTION

      Interview: SL Huang

      Arley Sorg

      AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS

      Shingai Njeri Kagunda

      Osahon Ize-Iyamu

      MISCELLANY

      Coming Attractions

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      From the Editors

      Editorial, November 2020

      Arley Sorg and Christie Yant | 679 words

      Fantasy Magazine is back! Nearly four years since its last issue, we’re resuming with Issue #61, co-edited by Christie Yant and Arley Sorg.

      • • • •

      CY: One of the questions we’ve been asked most frequently is Why now? With everything going on in the world and in our lives, it seems an unlikely time to start a project like this one. We’re lucky to be living in a boom time for short fiction, with so many wonderful venues publishing fantastic stories. But we both had a feeling that there was room for more, and we were both itching to create something and find new talent.

      AS: Everyone asks why now and to me, on the market side, it’s not about now because we always need more venues for quality fiction. The only way the question makes sense is on the personal side, to which the only answer is, everything fell into place now, and that’s why now.

      CY: It really did! That lightbulb moment when we realized that we needed to do this together was pure serendipity.

      Arley, it was your idea to do strictly anonymous submissions; no back door, no name recognition, and what a great idea it was!

      AS: Anonymous submissions inevitably show your reading biases. For some markets this would result in predictable ToCs. In our case, we both read such a great variety of material, we enjoy a range of voices and topics, so we have this possibility of publishing a broader range of creative works. For us, it means the story is everything, and the chances of someone previously unpublished selling to us is entirely on the merits of the story.

      CY: It was clearly the right decision, as our first Table of Contents goes to show! It will be interesting to see what a "Fantasy Magazine story" turns out to be over time.

      It was so exciting to finally see the names attached to the stories after we had selected them for the first issue and discover that we had done precisely what we set out to do: find stories from a variety of perspectives and lived experiences.

      And that’s exactly what drew us to this in the first place: the thrill of finding a new name, a new voice, a new story, or an old story told in a new way. Equally exciting is doing this in partnership with you!

      AS: I keep expecting an email from you or John saying, Just kidding, or, We decided this isn’t going to work after all! I’m beyond excited to be doing this, I feel grateful that I can do this with you, and I am so glad that everything came together the way it did. I love being able to have an impact in the field, and I’ve been doing things to help change the field quietly, behind the scenes, in my own ways, for a long time. To take this step and become a coeditor for this magazine – it’s just absolutely amazing.

      • • • •

      In this issue we have Shingai Njeri Kagunda’s heartbreaking tale of a time-skipping sister told with a dash of poetry, And This Is How to Stay Alive; a surreal tale of perspective, An Introduction by Reina Hardy; May Chong’s wildly fun and sensual werewolf fantasy poem, things i love about my werewolf girlfriend; The Secret Ingredient is Always the Same, by Sarah Grey, a poem of heartbreak, survival, and friendship; Osahon Ize-Iyamu brings us a story of personal truth and potential in To Look Forward; Tamoha Sengupta gives a brief, vivid account of young love and pure rebellion in Love Laws and a Locked Heart; and we have an interview with Burning Roses author S.L. Huang.

      This relaunch would not have been possible without the help and support of Wendy Wagner. Thank you, Wendy!

      Enjoy!

      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      Arley Sorg is an associate editor at Locus Magazine, where he’s been on staff since 2014. He joined the Lightspeed family in 2014 to work on the Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, starting as a slush reader. He eventually worked his way up to associate editor at both Lightspeed and Nightmare. He also reviews books for Locus, Lightspeed, and Cascadia Subduction Zone and is an interviewer for Clarkesworld Magazine. Arley grew up in England, Hawaii, and Colorado, and studied Asian Religions at Pitzer College. He lives in Oakland, and, in non-pandemic times, usually writes in local coffee shops. He is a 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate.

      Christie Yant writes and edits science fiction and fantasy on the central coast of California, where she lives with a dancer, an editor, a dog, and four cats. She worked as an assistant editor for Lightspeed Magazine from its launch in 2010 through 2015, and, in 2014 she edited the Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue of Lightspeed, which won the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. In 2019 she co-edited (with Hugh Howey and Gary Whitta) Resist: Tales From a Future Worth Fighting Against, an anthology benefitting the ACLU, and co-edited The Dystopia Triptych series of anthologies (with Hugh Howey and

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