''Strange Horizons'' is an

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magazine. It also features

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and nonfiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables.

History and profile

It was launched in September 2000, and publishes new material (fiction, articles, reviews, poetry, and/or art) 51 weeks of the year, with an emphasis on "new, underrepresented, and global voices." The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj. It has a staff of approximately sixty volunteers, and is unusual among professional speculative fiction magazines in being funded entirely by donations, holding annual fund drives.

Editors-in-chief

* Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2000–2003 * Susan Marie Groppi, 2004–2010 *

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, 2010–2017 * Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019 * Vanessa Rose Phin, 2019–2021 * Gautam Bhatia, 2021–present

Awards

Susan Marie Groppi won the World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional in 2010 for her work as Editor-in-Chief on ''Strange Horizons''. The magazine itself was a finalist for the Best Website Hugo Award in 2002 and 2005, and for the

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every year from 2013 through 2022. Strange Horizons won The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre, presented by the

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, in 2020. The short story "

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" by

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, published in 2006 in the magazine, was nominated for a 2007

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. " Selkie Stories Are For Losers" by

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was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2014. Other stories in ''Strange Horizons'' have been nominated for the Nebula and other awards. Three stories published in Strange Horizons have won the

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Awards to magazine and editors

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