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On the State of Literary Magazines

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Lincoln Michel
Aug 02, 2023
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From Vanitas (1543) by Hans Holbein the Younger

This week, Fantasy magazine announced it was shutting down three years after it rebooted. Fantasy did great work in those years and their stories were regular SFF award contenders. Still, editors Christie Yant and Arley Sorg wrote “People will want to know why, of course, and the answer is the expected one:…

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