The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has posted an update on the election results for the 2025 SFWA Board of Directors.

Ryka Aoki joins as new Director-at-Large along with returning Director-at-Large Curtis C. Chen and continuing Director-at-Large Christine Taylor-Butler. Kate Ristau continues as president and Steven D. Brewer continues as secretary. These terms will take effect on July 1, 2025.

As previously reported, Day Al-Mohamed was appointed to ...Read More

Anathema has announced a call for co-editors via Bluesky, saying they are “moving forward with plans for Anathema 2.0, and we would like to bring on more co-editors who are committed to the magazine’s longevity.” New co-editors will produce the magazine with Liza Wemakor, Lysz Flo, and Plangdi Neple.

Anathema: Spec from the Margins was launched in 2017 by Michael Matheson & Andrew Wilmot. The publication received numerous accolades from ...Read More

Lynne M. Thomas is stepping down as co-editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Uncanny after 11 years. Her cofounder Michael Damian Thomas will continue as sole editor-in-chief starting with issue 64 and as publisher starting with Issue 67. Lynne Thomas is “shifting her focus to her day job as she works towards her rare book librarianship goals.”

Michael Damian Thomas said,

Lynne and I dreamt up and founded Uncanny Magazine together 11 ...Read More

HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced the launch of Storytide, a new imprint for middle grade and YA books. Storytide’s slate will include fantasy titles That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller and I Killed the King by Andrea Hannah and Rebecca Mix.

VP and publisher Tara Weikum will lead the imprint. The team will also include Amy Cloud and Kristin Rens as executive editors, and Sarah Homer as editor.

On the ...Read More

Apex Book Company is seeking submissions for a reprint anthology, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.

Stories must be complete reprints between 1,000 and 6,000 words, published during the 2024 calendar year. Content must be speculative and “focused on ecology, climate, the environment, conservation, the natural world, our relationship to animals and other non-human life, and related issues. A climate-crisis setting alone is not enough to qualify.”

Payment is ...Read More

The seventy-year-old Science Fiction Book Club, originally launched by Doubleday in 1953, has announced on its website that it will close for orders as of February, 1, 2025. The Club thanked customers for their longstanding loyalty and gave a hard date for the end of its services.

We very much appreciate your many years of loyalty, patronage, and support. After 2/1/2025, orders will no longer be processed at SFBC.com.

After ...Read More

Andy Cox and Richard Wagner, who worked together on Black Static and Interzone, announced the launch of a new horror magazine, Remains. The quarterly magazine will feature all-new horror fiction, columns, and features; stories will be illustrated by Wagner, who has contributed cover and interior art for Black Static and more.

From a Facebook post via Livia Llewellyn, Cox announced:

REMAINS. 100 colour pages of new horror fiction. Smells nice. ...Read More

Ellen Datlow is accepting submissions for her 17th Best Horror of the Year anthology, to be published by Night Shade Books and covering material appearing in 2025.

I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify.

This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2025. Deadline ...Read More

Sean Markey has announced the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, with the first issue scheduled to publish June 1, 2025. Fantasy will be joining sibling magazine The Deadlands under the Psychopomp publishing umbrella. Sean has named Arley Sorg and Shingai Njeri Kagunda as co-Editors-in-Chief.

Fantasy Magazine will publish original short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry on a quarterly basis. Subscriptions will be available to support the magazine, which will also provide ...Read More

Diamond Comic Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US court in January 2025. They have secured $41 million in financing from JP Morgan Chase bank to “fund post-petition operating expenses and ensure adequate working capital to meet its obligations to associates and suppliers.” A letter to distributors from president Chuck Parker says,

I’m writing to share one of the most challenging messages of my career.

Earlier today, Diamond made ...Read More