Semiprozine Directory

The following publications are currently eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine:

• Abyss & Apex
• Albedo One
• Apex Magazine
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Aurealis
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Black Gate
• Black Static
• Brain Harvest (closed in 2012, last year of eligibility)
• Bull Spec
• The Cascadia Subduction Zone
• Clarkesworld Magazine
• The Colored Lens
• Daily Science Fiction
• Drabblecast
• eFantasy
• Electric Velocipede
• Escape Pod
• Expanded Horizons
• GigaNotoSaurus
• Goblin Fruit
• HUB Magazine
• Icarus
• Ideomancer
• Interstellar Fiction
• Interzone
• The Journal of Unlikely Entomology
• Kaleidotrope
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• Lightspeed Magazine
• Neo-Opsis
• New York Review of Science Fiction
• On Spec
• Penumbra
• Ray Gun Revival (closed in 2012, last year of eligibility)
• Redstone Science Fiction (closed in 2012, last year of eligibility)
• Shimmer
• Something Wicked
• Stone Telling
• Strange Horizons
• Space and Time
• Weird Tales

No longer eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine:

• Ansible - according to new rules, this publication is a fanzine
• Locus Magazine - disqualified by “professional” staffing rule
• Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show - disqualified by “professional” staffing rule

Not currently eligible for nomination, but could be next year (list created from reader inquiries):

• Fireside Magazine – has not produced the minimum number of issues (4)
• eSciFi -  has not produced the minimum number of issues (4)
• Greatest Uncommon Denominator - did not publish any issues in 2012
• Nightmare Magazine – has not produced the minimum number of issues (4)

Not currently eligible for nomination, but will be next year (list created from reader inquiries):

• Crossed Genres - did not publish any issues in 2012

Haven’t been previously eligible for nomination and still aren’t (list created from reader inquiries):

• Analog (professional)
• Arc (professional)
• Asimov’s (professional)
• Eclipse (professional/also, has not produced the minimum number of issues)
• io9 (professional)
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (professional)
• The Mary Sue (professional)
• Subterranean (professional)
• Tor.com (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.