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July 14, 2009May 21, 2015

March and April Short Fiction

Here’s the data I have on POC short fiction published in magazines in March and April 2009:

March

Elf Aware by K. Tempest Bradford in PodCastle
The Time Zenith by Lee Gimenez in Escape Velocity Magazine
The Wellness Center by Lee Gimenez in Aphelion Magazine
Nira and I by Shweta Narayan in Strange Horizons
The Unstrung Zither by Yoon Ha Lee in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

April

Where Virtue Lives by Saladin Ahmed in Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Four Last Things: A Disruption of Boschtown by Toiya Kristen Finley in Farrago’s Wainscot
Within Your Soul I Sightless See by Eugie Foster in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror
The Reign of the Wintergod by Eugie Foster in Pseudopod
The Photographs by Lee Gimenez in Writing Shift Magazine
Proxima Centauri by Lee Gimenez in Beyond Centauri Magazine
Jump Space by Mary Anne Mohanraj in Thoughtcrime Experiments

Once again, if I’ve missed some stories, please let me know in the comments or by sending an email to the Gmail address: theangryblackwoman+pocfic. Also check out the list we posted last week as I’ve added some new stories. This week I’ll finish up 2009 magazines and next week I’ll post fiction found in anthologies.

July 10, 2009May 21, 2015

Omnivoracious interview with Minister Faust

Ominvoracious interviews black Canadian science fiction writer Minister Faust:

I was born and have spent my whole life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My mother’s family came to Alberta in 1910 when the province was only five years old.

July 8, 2009May 21, 2015

Magazines and Editors Who Want More Diversity in Their Slushpiles

As I continue posting lists of POC short fiction, you may start to notice a trend in the markets you see attached to the stories. The same ones come up more than once while others never appear at all. Sometimes that’s due to the editor/s, but often it’s also due to writers not sending their stories to particular markets.

As a writer I can be a bit picky about which markets I’ll submit to and which I won’t. I have a list in my head of places I feel aren’t worth my time or postage because the editor doesn’t seem interested in fiction with a POC perspective at all. But markets change, editors change (or move on, allowing for new editors), and sometimes editors actually want to publish more POC but just aren’t getting a lot of submissions from them.

Last year I make a list of magazines I knew wanted more diversity and asked editors to let me know if they wanted their markets added to the list. Here it is again (minus those markets that no longer exist):

Anthologists

Delia Sherman

Editors, if you want your market or name added to the list, say so in comments.

Hopefully this list will be useful to readers as well. It’s not always easy to know which magazines are more likely to have stories written by POC or even including POC characters. This is a good place to start.