Apex Magazine has announced that Lynne M. Thomas, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, will take over as editor of the magazine from Catherynne Valente.The first issue to feature Thomas’s editorial hand will be the November 2011 issue.
The Analog and Asimov’s Awards were presented at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. during the Nebula Awards Weekend on May 21 by Stan Schmidt and Sheila Williams.
Analog Analytical Laboratory Winners (Anlab)
Asimov’s Readers’ Award Winners
CZP has announced it will be relaunching their online speculative fiction ‘zine, The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com. The ‘zine began publishing in 1997 and in 2008, the publisher branched out to print as well. The April-June 2011 issue of the zine will be a massive issue with more than 200 short stories and poems by previous contributors including Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Boston, Gary Braunbeck, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Jay Lake, Sarah Langan,Tim Lebbon, Stewart O’Nan, and Tom Piccirilli.
Realms of Fantasy editor Douglas Cohen has announced that due to a glitch with the post office, any mail received at the magazine’s PO Box over the last week has been returned to the senders. The situation has been rectified and the PO Box is active again. Realms of Fantasy is still a going concern and editor Shawna McCarthy and Cohen apologize for any inconvenience the situation may have caused.
*An earlier version of this story misidentified Mr. Cohen’s title.
Buzzy Multimedia, a publisher of audio book and specialty t-shirts, has announced plans to launch Buzzy Mag, an online zine of fiction by new and established sf authors. The magazine has announced a rate of 5 cents/word for stories up to 10,000 words. Buzzy Mag is also instituting a beta reading system which requires authors who submit to agree to read and critique at least two other submissions.
John Klima has announced that Electric Velocipede will cease to be distributed by Night Shade Press after the current issue, 21/22. Klima and Night Shade have determined that Night Shade’s book business can not support the distribution of a periodical. Night Shade will pay contributors to Electric Velocipede 23-25 and the contents of those issues will be placed on-line. If the magazine continues beyond that point, it will most likely be on-line only.
Tangent On-line assistant e-zine editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt has resigned. His replacement is Kevin Tipple, who will be taking over the position immediately.
Douglas Cohen has announced that both he and Shawna McCarthy will be continuing in their positions with Realms of Fantasy under new publisher Damnation Books. Guidelines and pay rates are expected to remain as they were under Tir na Nog.
Only weeks after Realms of Fantasy announced it was ceasing publication, it has been revived by Kim Richards Gilchrist of Damnation Books. Damnation will publish the December issue as a print issue (previously it had been announced as available on-line only) and will begin publishing new material with the February issue, not missing any issues. Damnation has already announced that the April issue will be a dark fantasy issue to coincide with World Horror Con and the June issue will be a celebration of the magazine’s 100th issue. No staff has been announced yet.
Susan Marie Groppi, who won the World Fantasy Award yesterday for her work on Strange Horizons has announced that she will be stepping down as editor. She will be replaced as editor-in-chief by Niall Harrison, formerly the magazine’s senior review editor. Harrison, in turn, will be replaced as senior review editor by Abigail Nussbaum.