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, 2018.
The following publications are currently eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine:
- Abyss & Apex
- Amazing Stories* (currently a semiprozine, but has a long history as a professional magazine, hard to say if the previous pro incarnation counts towards the four issue minimum for the category)
- Anathema
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
- 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
- Expanded Horizons
- Fireside Magazine
- Fiyah
- Flash Fiction Online
- The Future Fire
- GigaNotoSaurus
- Grimdark Magazine
- Helios Quarterly
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
- Hypnos Magazine
- Interzone
- Kaleidotrope
- Lackington’s
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
- Liminal Stories
- LONTAR: Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
- Luna Station Quarterly
- Metaphorosis
- Mythic Delirium
- Neo-Opsis
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- On Spec
- Perihelion
- Podcastle
- Pornokitsch
- Pseudopod
- Quantum Muse
- Shimmer
- Shoreline of Infinity
- Strange Horizons
- Space and Time
- Tähtivaeltaja
- The Colored Lens
- Truancy
- Uncanny
- Utah Geek Magazine
Not currently eligible for nomination, but could be next year (list created from reader inquiries):
- Albedo One (no issues published in 2018)
- Factor Four (insufficient number of issues published)
- Future Science Fiction Digest (insufficient number of issues, may be professional)
- Goblin Fruit (no issues published in 2018)
- Stone Telling (no issues published in 2018)
- Unlikely Story (no issues published in 2018)
- Visions (only one issue, needs four)
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)
- 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.