NOTE: We are currently reviewing the eligibility of several markets below. If you see an * next to a publication, we do not have sufficient information to determine eligibility for the year ending December 31, 2016.
The following publications are currently eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine:
- Abyss & Apex
- Albedo One
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- Aurealis
- Bards and Sages Quarterly
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Betwixt
- Black Gate
- Black Static
- The Book Smugglers
- Bull Spec
- Cast of Wonders
- The Cascadia Subduction Zone
- The Colored Lens
- Cirsova Magazine
- Daily Science Fiction
- Diabolical Plots
- Drabblecast
- Escape Pod
- Expanded Horizons
- Fantasy Scroll
- Fireside Magazine
- Flash Fiction Online
- The Future Fire
- GigaNotoSaurus
- Goblin Fruit
- Grimdark Magazine
- Helios Quarterly
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
- Holdfast Magazine
- Hypnos Magazine
- Interzone
- Kaleidotrope
- Lackington’s
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
- LONTAR: Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
- Luna Station Quarterly
- Metaphorosis
- Mothership Zeta
- Neo-Opsis
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- On Spec
- Perihelion
- Podcastle
- Pornokitsch
- Pseudopod
- Quantum Muse
- Sci Phi Journal
- Shimmer
- Shoreline of Infinity
- The Singularity
- The Sockdolager
- Strange Horizons
- Space and Time
- Tähtivaeltaja
- Uncanny
- Utah Geek Magazine
- Unlikely Story
Not currently eligible for nomination, but could be next year (list created from reader inquiries):
- Liminal Stories (not enough issues)
- Stone Telling (no issues published in 2016)
Not eligible for nomination (list created from reader inquiries):
- Analog (professional)
- Apex Magazine (professional)
- Ansible – according to new rules, this publication is a fanzine
- Arc (professional)
- Asimov’s (professional)
- Buzzy Mag (professional)
- Clarkesworld Magazine (past winner, no longer eligible, professional)
- Cosmos (professional)
- The Dark Magazine (professional)
- Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (professional)
- Forever Magazine (professional)
- Galaxy’s Edge (professional)
- io9 (professional)
- Lightspeed Magazine (past winner, no longer eligible, professional)
- Locus Magazine (past winner, no longer eligible, professional)
- Nebula Rift (professional)
- New Realm (professional)
- Nightmare Magazine (professional)
- Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (professional)
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (professional)
- The Mary Sue (professional)
- Omni Reboot (professional)
- Subterranean (professional)
- Tor.com (professional)
- Terraform (professional)
- Weird Tales (no 2016 issues)
This list was initially generated from the list of semiprozines that have been previously nominated (long list) and is by no means a complete or official list. We are currently contacting publications that may be on the edge of professional to confirm current nomination eligibility. Closed publications have been removed, recently ineligible have been marked, and new ones will be added. If you are an editor or publisher of a qualified semiprozine and would like to have yours added to this list, please books(@)clarkesworld.com and I’ll add it.