Editor – Fantasy Magazine

Editor – Fantasy Magazine

Fantasy Magazine #74 - December 2021. A graphical and stylized illustration in black, white, gray, and red. A girl in a white and gray dress with long black and gray hair and red horns is seated on a dark gray ledge, reading a book against a black background.

Fantasy Magazine #74
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
December 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, we get a different kind of hero’s journey in a really cool world with Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga’s “Saviour of the Light Market”, and “The Rainmakers” by Megan M. Davies-Ostrom glitters and glows in a climate-based post-apocalypse. In flash fiction, Dominica Phetteplace haunts us with “24 Reasons You’re Dreaming About Your Ex / 24 Razones Por Las Que Sueñas Con Tú Ex”, and C.L. Holland’s “What the River Remembers” takes a much closer look at change through a unique perspective. For poetry, we have “Forest Maths” by Nnadi Samuel and “The Other Day The Saucers Came” by Karen Brenchley. Plus a kind of “Part 2” essay, or companion piece to our December 2020 essay, this one called “All the King’s Women: the Fats” by the author of Big GirlFind Layla, and series The Road to Nowhere, Meg Elison. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #73 - November 2021. Digital illustration of a green woman with glowing green eyes, red adornments on her forehead and long, thick braids stands waist-deep in water against a murky swamp-like background. Green glowing flame-like energy licks up one arm.

Fantasy Magazine #73
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
November 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Kehkashan Khalid offers a condensed epic, where a mother must contend with her fractious sons, in “The Petticoat Government,” and Genevieve Mills gives us a taste of revenge in “Girls Have Sharp Teeth”; in flash fiction, Billie Cohen’s “Lessons” features a different kind of imprisonment, and there are consequences for Charles EP Murphy’s “Shouty Lads”; for poetry, we have “Unfinished” by Eugen Bacon and “After The End” by Jessica Cho. Finally, we have an interview with the author of Victories Greater Than Death, Never Say You Can’t Survive, and Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #72 - October 2021. Vector illustration of two witches in pointy hats face each other silhouetted against a full moon with a cauldron between them. One holds a lantern and the other dangled a newt over the cauldron while both stir the contents with sticks held in their spare hands.

Fantasy Magazine #72
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
October 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Pamela Rentz takes us on a journey of place and identity in “Obstruction,” and Zebib K. A. explores the complexity of being and feeling strange in “Heirlooms;” in flash fiction, Allison King asks what happens when a rabbit wants to be a dragon in “Breath of the Dragon King,” and Gwynne Garfinkle’s “Emily and the What-If Imp” gives voice to an undesired darkness; for poetry, we have “Halsing for the Anchylose” by Stewart C. Baker and “Twilight Mind” by Jennifer Crow. Plus essay “Worldbuilding With Legs” by Premee Mohamed, author of And What Can We Offer You TonightThe Annual Migration of Clouds, and The Void Ascendant. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #71 - September 2021. Digital illustration in vivid gradient of blue, teal, and orange. A silhouetted figure rides a dragon and lifts a curved staff above their head as they soar over a crowd of people waving flags and swords.

Fantasy Magazine #71
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
September 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Amal Singh gives us a difficult reality check in “What Is Mercy?” and K.P. Kulski’s “An Arrangement of Moss and Dirt” reminds us to be careful what we wish for; in flash fiction, Addison Smith introduces us to a couple coming out of—or into—their shell in “Sounds for Crustaceans,” and Mark S. Bailen has a fresh perspective on portal stories with “Lost Portals”; for poetry, we have “The Herbalist” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and “The Forbidden Path to Forgetting” by Daniel Ausema. Plus an interview with Elysium and Destroyer of Light author Jennifer Marie Brissett. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #70 - August 2021. Surreal collage in soft blues and greens. A variety of birds soar and perch on a bare, twiggy tree, set against a patterned moon. A golden, disembodied eye sits atop a black and lavender-striped post like a road sign, with a coiled snake and geometric sculptures on either side.

Fantasy Magazine #70
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
August 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Eugen Bacon & Seb Doubinsky take us through a frank and brutal emigration in “The Failing Name,” and Inez Schaechterle visits the Old West in the here and now in “Ghost Riders at Hutchinson’s Two Pump”; in flash fiction, Vanessa McKinney brings coming out to the celestial level in “Shapeshifter,” and in Sarina Dorie’s “My List of Bedtime Bogeymen” we may—or may not—want that bogeyman to stay away; for poetry, we have “The Reality of Ghosts” by Yilin Wang and “i find my body and my body” by Shaoni C. White. Plus an essay, “We Are The Mountain: A Look At The Inactive Protagonist” by author Vida Cruz.

Fantasy Magazine #69 - July 2021.  Digital illustration in deep rust and gold tones. A figure of indeterminate gender and short hair stands facing a vivid yellow setting sun mirrored by a full pale-gold moon. The figure's arms are stretched out to their sides, and their hands hold several strings with a soaring bird at the end of each string.

Fantasy Magazine #69
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
July 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Lulu Khadim keeps loved ones close even beyond the veil in “A Softness of the Heart,” and Benjamin C. Kinney takes us through delightfully layered visions in “I Would”; for flash fiction, Dustin Katz brings the horror and the tension with “To My (Final) Girl,” and in “There Will Be a Question and Answer Period After Your Inevitable Demise” Marika Bailey challenges tropes that reach far back into history; for poetry, we have “How to Find Yourself Again” by Beth Cato and “Paladin” by Lisabell Tay. Plus an interview with The Return of the Sorceress and Velvet Was the Night author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #68 - June 2021. Digital illustration. Several identical iridescent pink and green fish swim across a black background from left to right. A single bright coral-colored fish swims down at an angle toward a girl with dark brown skin and straight, short black hair, wearing a simple dress in a pink-coral color similar to the fish. The girl stands on one of several translucent white spheres, reaching out to the fish with one hand.

Fantasy Magazine #68
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
June 2021

In this issue’s short fiction, Rajan Khanna takes us on a literary trip that Dante and Milton would envy, in “Your Ticket to Hell”, and Cara DiGirolamo invites us to a perilous party in “A Gift from the Queen of Faerie to the King of Hell”; for flash fiction, Catherine J. Coles describes the dangers of a . . . transformative life—but with a lovely twist; in “Dos Coyotes”, and Christine Tyler’s “The Port of Le Havre” explores home and identity; for poetry, we have “Echidna” by Donyae Coles and “Magic Carpet” by Colleen Anderson. Plus essay “How to Steal a Million Dollars Dragons” by author/sculptor/fantastical cake maker Effie Seiberg. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #67 - May 2021. Digital illustration resembling a paper collage. A white nine-tailed fox with orange ears and pink markings on its head sits atop a patterned rock in a dense forest of brown tree trunks, deep green foliage, and bright red flowers. Rays of light slant through the trees.

Fantasy Magazine #67
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
May 2021

In this issue we have original fiction by J.L. Jones (“The Sweetest Source”) and Anya Leigh Josephs (“By Our Own Hands”); flash fiction by Izzy Wasserstein (“Like Birdsong, the Memory of Your Touch”) and P.H. Low (“Disenchantment”); poetry by Louisa Muniz (“Self-Portrait as Wolf”) and Kim Whysall-Hammond (“Visitor”); and an interview with Tasha Suri.

Fantasy Magazine #66 - April 2021. Digital illustration in vivid purples, blues, pinks, and reds. A girl with long black hair wearing cat ears and a cat tail sits cross-legged on a rock with two cats. The girl points to the sky, where a marbled moon hangs against a field of galactic clouds and bright stars.

Fantasy Magazine #66
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
April 2021

In this issue . . .  Alice Goldfuss weaves a biting tale of resistance in “Woman with no Face” and Y.M. Pang offers a fresh twist on a superhero navigating relationships in “How I Became MegaPunch, or Why I Stayed with Dylan”; for flash fiction, A.Z. Louise brings coffee and witches together in “Single Origin” and Shane Halbach’s “So. Fucking.Metal.” puts the Death in Death Metal; for this month’s poetry we bring you Terese Mason Pierre’s “Appeal to the Dopplegänger” and Tristan Beiter’s “The Knitting Bowl”; plus, this issue features an essay by The Unbroken author C.L. Clark: “The Fiction of Peace, The Fantasy of War.”

Fantasy Magazine #65 - March 2021. Digital and stylized illustration. A woman stands in profile against a series of branches, silhouetted against a pale gray moon. A bright red fruit hangs from a branch above her.

Fantasy Magazine #65
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
March 2021

In this issue, you’ll find the following fabulous fantasies: Original fiction by M. Shaw (“Man vs. Bomb”) and Hal Y. Zhang (“Arenous”); flash fiction by McKinley Valentine (“The Code for Everything”) and Donyae Coles (“Close Enough to Divine”); poetry by B. Sharise Moore (“Black Beak”) and Priya Chand (“Dragonslayer”); and an interview with Charles Yu. Enjoy!

Fantasy Magazine #64 - February 2021. Digital illustration of a figure with a human body and a tree-like head with branches in the place of hair, standing against a misty pink background and playing a mandolin. The figure wears a patterned sarong; glowing moths flutter around them.

Fantasy Magazine #64
Edited by Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
February 2021

In the February issue of Fantasy Magazine . . . Original fiction by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (“Flight”) and David James Brock (“Kisser”); flash fiction by Sharang Biswas (“Of Course You Screamed”) and Shingai Njeri Kagunda (“Blackman’s Flight in Four Parts”); poetry by Danielle Jean Atkinson (“Like a Box of Chocolates”) and Lynette Mejía (“What My Mother Taught Me”); and a new essay, “The Validity of Escapism,” by Andrea Stewart. 

Fantasy Magazine #63 - January 2021. Digital illustration in black, white, turquoise, and yellow, in a stenciled street art style. A brick wall is spray-painted with a cowled and hooded figure with crackling energy coming from their finger tips.

Fantasy Magazine #63
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
January 2021

In this issue we have original fiction from Tonya Liburd (“10 Steps to a Whole New You”) and C.E. McGill (“Things to Bring, Things to Burn, Things Best Left Behind”), along with flash fiction from Marissa Lingen (“The Billionaire Shapeshifter Ex-Wives Club”) and Megan Chee (“Incense”).

We also have poetry by Magaly Garcia (“Butterfly-Hummingbird”) and Maria Zoccola (“like the gator loves the snake”).

And finally, Arley interviews author N.K. Jemisin.

Fantasy Magazine #62 - December 2020. A small figure with short brown hair and wearing a brown jacket with a shearling collar stands in the foreground looking out over a field of giant, vivid green lily pads that fills the rest of the image.

Fantasy Magazine #62
Edited by
Christie Yant & Arley Sorg
December 2020

In this issue we have Kurt Hunt’s touching tale of two people struggling to connect in “An Indefinite Number of Birds”; friendship and love in Anjel Kaye’s moving and subtle “If These Walls Whispered What Would We Hear?”; Kerry C. Byrne’s beautifully imagined poem on communication and other-ness, “Things Might Be Different if We All Lived Underwater”; Hal Y. Zhang’s reflective poem “softening, come morning”; a vivid story of survival and sacrifice, “Umami” by Anya Ow; Kristiana Willsey’s surreal and captivating “Tiny House Living”; and a biting essay from Meg Elison called “All the King’s Women.”

Fantasy Magazine #61 - November 2020. Digital illustration of a birch-white dryad with twining periwinkle branches and orange foliage. In her root-like hand she holds a human of indeterminate gender with light blind hair and wearing an elegant black coat.

Fantasy Magazine #61
Edited by
Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
November 2020

Fantasy Magazine is back! 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!