Too many writers have fantastical stories that get stuck in the genre divide: too literary for the mainstream science fiction magazines and too spacey for the literary magazines.
Last year I interviewed novelist Jeff VanderMeer (who blogs at Ecstatic Days) about other places where he looks for support for his genre bending fiction, and he gave me a list as long as my arm:
"The key Internet publications and outlets based in the U.S. include...Locus Online, the SF Site, Emerald City, Science Fiction Weekly, and Sci Fi Wire on the genre side, and Salon, Book Slut, and Rain Taxi on the mainstream literary side." If you want to read more writing advice from VanderMeer, click here for the complete interview.
Even better, over at Strange Horizons, The Mumpsimus blogger Matthew Cheney has a great new essay entitled "The Discerning Reader of Fantastic Literature's Guide to Literary Journals," updating the list we received from VanderMeer. It's required reading for anybody with a little bit of fantasy, science fiction, or dreamy influences in their prose.
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