Former site contributor (in the Fantasybookspot.com days), Scott Andrews, is now editing an online magazine entitled Beneath Ceaseless Skies
What they are about:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a new online magazine dedicated to publishing the best in “literary adventure fantasy.”
We love traditional adventure fantasy, including classics from the 1930s pulp era and the new wave of fantasy from the 1970s post-Tolkien boom. But we also love how the recent influence of literary writing on fantasy short fiction has expanded and advanced the genre, allowing writers the freedom to use literary devices such as tight points-of-view, round characters, unreliable narrators, discontinuous narratives, and many others. This sophisticated level of craft has made fantasy short fiction more powerful than ever before.
We want stories that combine the best of both these styles—adventure fantasy plots in vivid secondary worlds, but written with a literary flair. Beneath Ceaseless Skies will feature exciting stories set in awe-inspiring places that are told with all the skill and impact of modern literary-influenced fantasy.
That’s what we mean by “literary adventure fantasy.” It could also be called “modern traditional fantasy” or “literary swords and sorcery.” There are many current short fiction markets that specialize in literary-style fantasy, and a hardy few that still publish adventure fantasy, but there is no magazine focusing on stories that combine both. Until now.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies will publish two stories per issue, with a new issue every two weeks. Readers can subscribe by email notification or by RSS feed. We will also release selected stories as audio podcasts every month. We will maintain an online forum to update submitting writers and to encourage reader discussion of all things fantasy.
Contributing authors include K.D. Wentworth, Richard Parks, S.C. Butler, Tony Pi, Erin Cashier, Margaret Ronald, Stephanie Burgess, Aliette de Bodard, Jonathan Wood, Brian Dolton, Holly Phillips, Chris Willrich, Yoon Ha Lee, and Charles Coleman Finlay.
Charles Coleman Finlay and Holly Phillips are the names that I’m most familiar with (Phillips has a terrific collection out called In the Palace of Repose) and I’m sure I’ve seen and enjoyed de Bodard stories submitted to Heliotrope.
I agree with Damon; it’s a very clean and unobtrusive site so go check it out! I’ve always asked for more adventurous fiction for Heliotrope and received some, but never something that really thrilled me, so this may bring some to light! They’ve got some pretty sweet covers that really fit that mission statement and has me intrigued.
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