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, 2019.
The following publications are currently eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine:
- Abyss & Apex
- Albedo One
- Anathema
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- Apparition Lit
- The Arcanist
- Asymmetry
- Aurealis
- Bards and Sages Quarterly
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Black Static
- The Book Smugglers
- Cast of Wonders
- The Cascadia Subduction Zone
- Cirsova Magazine
- Compelling Science Fiction
- Daily Science Fiction
- Deep Magic
- Diabolical Plots
- Drabblecast
- Escape Pod
- Factor Four
- Fireside Magazine
- Fiyah
- Flash Fiction Online
- Future Science Fiction Digest
- Gathering Storm Magazine
- GigaNotoSaurus
- Grimdark Magazine
- Helios Quarterly
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
- Hypnos Magazine
- Interzone
- Kaleidotrope
- Lackington’s
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
- Luna Station Quarterly
- Metaphorosis
- Mithila Review
- Neo-Opsis
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- On Spec
- Podcastle
- Pseudopod
- Red Sun
- Selene Quarterly
- Shoreline of Infinity
- Strange Horizons
- Space and Time
- Tähtivaeltaja
- The Colored Lens
- The Future Fire
- Truancy
- Uncanny
- Unfit Magazine
Not currently eligible for nomination, but could be next year (list created from reader inquiries):
- Expanded Horizons (no issues published in 2019)
- Goblin Fruit (no issues published in 2019)
- Liminal Stories (no issues published in 2019)
- Perihelion (no issues published in 2019)
- Stone Telling (no issues published in 2019)
- Unlikely Story (no issues published in 2019)
- Unreal Magazine (only three issues, needs four)
- Visions (only two issues, needs four)
Not eligible for nomination (list created from reader inquiries):
- Analog (professional)
- Amazing Stories
- 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)
- LONTAR: Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction (closed in 2018)
- Mythic Delirium (closed in 2018)
- Nebula Rift (professional)
- New Realm (professional)
- Nightmare Magazine (professional)
- Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (professional)
- Pornokitsch (closed in 2018)
- Shimmer (closed in 2018)
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (professional)
- The Mary Sue (professional)
- Spectacle (professional, only one issue)
- Subterranean (professional)
- Tor.com (professional)
- Terraform (professional)
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.