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About Fantasy Magazine

Fantasy means many things to different people. Often it means a shifting of perspective, which seems to imply that there is more, that wherever you are, the world or universe is bigger yet. Whoever you are and wherever you are, that location which seems mundane to you is also Fantastic to others. Fantasy is philosophical as well as experiential, it is thought provoking, and often insists on a sense of wonder and curiosity.

In genre as well as our pages, Fantasy can be dark, or contemporary, it can be urban, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales… as well as anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader – we publish stories of the Fantastic that make us think, and that describe what it is to be human.


Fantasy Magazine Staff

Arley Sorg

co-Editor-in-Chief

ARLEY SORG is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a Senior Editor and film reviewer at Locus Magazine, Associate Editor and reviewer at Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines, columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and interviewer at Clarkesworld Magazine. He is a 2022 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award recipient and a 2023 Space Cowboy Award recipient. He is also a 2021 and 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist and a 2022, 2023, and 2024 Locus Award finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is a 2022 Ignyte Award finalist in two categories: for his work as a critic, and for his essay “What You Might Have Missed” in Uncanny Magazine. A 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate, Arley has spoken at a range of events and taught for a number of programs, including guest critiquing for Odyssey and being the week five instructor for the six-week Clarion West workshop. He can be found at arleysorg.com, Twitter (@arleysorg), Blue Sky, and Facebook.

Shingai Njeri Kagunda

co-Editor-in-Chief

Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown. Shingai’s work has been featured in the Best American Sci-fi and Fantasy 2020, Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. They have fiction, essays, and poetry in, or upcoming in Omenana, FANTASY magazine, FracturedLit, khōréō, Africa Risen, Baffling Magazine, LIGHTSPEED and Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, among others. Shingai’s debut novella & This is How to Stay Alive published by Neon Hemlock Press in October 2021 won the Ignyte Award for best novella in 2022. She is the co-editor of Podcastle Magazine and the co-founder of Voodoonauts (an Afrofuturist summer workshop nominated for a community Ignyte Award). Shingai is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student, and a lover of all things soft and Black.

Sean Markey

Publisher

Sean lives in an old farmhouse in northern Vermont, and is pretty sure the house isn’t very haunted…

He works as a marketer during the day and is also the publisher of The Deadlands, a little magazine about beginnings and endings you may or may not have heard of.

E. Catherine Tobler

Managing Editor

A finalist for the Sturgeon, Hugo, Nebula, Ditmar, Aurealis,
and World Fantasy awards, E. Catherine Tobler has never won a blessed thing.

She keeps writing.