Tag: poc 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.

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):

• Fantasy Magazine
• Sybil’s Garage
• PodCastle
• Asimov’s
• Electric Velocipede
• Clarkesworld Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Southern Fried Weirdness
• Dog Versus Sandwich
• Ideomancer
• Weird Tales
• Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD) Magazine
• Brain Harvest
• Three-lobed Burning Eye

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.