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Alexis Renata

Alexis Renata is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. She mostly writes speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has been featured in Z Publishing's Oregon's Best Emerging Poets series. You can follow her @alxsrenata or linktr.ee/alxsrenata.


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Current Issue
23 Dec 2024
Poetry
What Beautiful Heavens These 
By: Kaya Skovdatter
what harm was there / in lingering a little?
Poetry
The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell 
By: Bogi Takács
even with a diary there’s the moment where one needs to open it (carefully flip the pages)
Reviews
Monday: Star Trek: Lower Decks—Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: To Tune the Beast by Sun Hesper Jansen 
By: Candice Louisa Daquin
Friday: The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer 
By: Cameron Miguel
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Issue 16 Dec 2024
Fiction
Exit Interview 
By: K.W. Onley
Poetry
Dad's recipe for never-keeping 
By: Anne Liberton
Poetry
RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE. 
By: Fasasi Ridwan
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 6: An interview with Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li, and a reading of her poems, 'Ave Maria' and 'The Mezzanine' 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li
Reviews
Monday: Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, translated by Gina M. Stamm 
By: Shinjini Dey
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Wednesday: The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies by Maggie Cooper 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Lost Irish Horror Stories edited by Jack Fennell 
By: Aran Ward Sell
Read Issue
Issue 9 Dec 2024
Fiction
A Wish for the Drowned 
By: Corey Farrenkopf
Poetry
The Universe Is Dying 
By: Michelle Koubek
Poetry
On The Shores of Nineveh 
By: Nnadi Samuel
Reviews
Monday: The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry 
By: Catherine Baker
,
Wednesday: Gliff by Ali Smith 
By: David Hebblethwaite
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Friday: Beyond the Light Horizon by Ken MacLeod 
By: Redfern Jon Barrett
Read Issue
Issue 2 Dec 2024
Fiction
To Drive the Cold Winter Away 
By: E. Catherine Tobler
Poetry
Nose 
By: Devan Barlow
Poetry
The Monster in the Shape of a Star 
By: Vivienne Camille
Podcasts
Podcast: A Cure for Solastalgia 
By: E.M. Linden
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Reviews
Monday: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 
By: Christian P. Haines
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Wednesday: In Universes by Emet North 
By: Roseanna Pendlebury
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Friday: Countess by Suzan Palumbo 
By: Dan Hartland
Read Issue
Issue 25 Nov 2024
Columns, Fiction, Non-Fiction
Stories From The Radio: The Slide - Penultimate Episode 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Poetry
Inside this Egg, We Roll Together 
By: Akis Linardos
Poetry
A Headline Ripped From a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic News America: 
By: Donald Towers
Articles, Non-Fiction
To Fact from Fiction: The Representation of Climate Change in Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Dog War II 
By: Rawad Alhashmi
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 5: An Interview with E.M. Faulds 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: E.M. Faulds
Reviews
Monday: Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik 
By: Shannon Fay
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Wednesday: Rare Birds by L. B. Hazelthorn 
By: Andy Sawyer
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Friday: The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song 
By: Kristy Wang
Read Issue
Issue 18 Nov 2024
Poetry
Interstellar Assistance 
By: M.C. Childs
Poetry
High 
By: Duy Đoàn
Fiction
A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada 
By: Íde Hennessy
Podcasts
Podcast: Little Lila 
By: Susannah Rand
Podcast read by: Claire McNerney
Reviews
Monday: Zebra Meridian & Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole 
By: Catherine Rockwood
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Wednesday: Woebegone’s Warehouse of Words by Payal Kapadia 
By: Amritesh Mukherjee
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Friday: The 23rd Hero by Rebecca Anne Nguyen 
By: David Lewis
Read Issue
Issue 11 Nov 2024
Poetry
The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead 
By: Sarah Titus
Poetry
the dogs don’t forgive us 
By: Sophie Fink
Azimuth, Editorials
Delays! But We're Ok. 
By: Romie Stott
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 4: An Interview with Kyle Tam 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Kyle Tam
Fiction
The Lord of Mice’s Arrows 
By: Nadia Radovich
Reviews
Monday: Dakini Atoll by Nikhil Singh 
By: Eric Hendel
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Wednesday: Metal From Heaven by august clarke 
By: Dylan Haston
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Friday: One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun, translated by Jung Yewon 
By: Areeb Ahmad
Read Issue
Issue 4 Nov 2024
Fiction
The Butcher’s Heart 
By: AnaMaria Curtis
Poetry
Djinndroid 
By: Sara Omer
Poetry
Departure: New Selene Station 21:56 
By: K. M. Praschak
Podcasts
Podcast: Embroidery of a Bird’s Heart 
By: Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
Podcast read by: L. W. Salinas
Reviews
Monday: The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part One 
By: Tehnuka
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Wednesday: The 2024 Ignyte Award for Best Novel Shortlist, Part Two 
By: Tehnuka
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Friday: A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon 
By: Maya C. James
Read Issue
Issue 28 Oct 2024
Fiction
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackened Husk of a Planet 
By: Adeline Wong
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 3: An interview with Arkady Martine, and a reading of her poem 'Cloud Wall' 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Arkady Martine
Podcast read by: Kat Kourbeti
Read Issue
Issue 21 Oct 2024
Art, Fiction
Faith is a Butterfly Resting on a Rotting Eye (or The Art of Faith) 
By: Gabrielle Emem Harry
Art by: Shan
Poetry
Cornhusk Doll With Face 
By: Meagan Chandler
Poetry
SOMETIMES I WISH GHOSTS WERE REAL SO I COULD SAY ALL THE THINGS 
By: Steve Witherspoon
Podcasts
Podcast: Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead 
By: KT Bryski
Podcast read by: Devin Martin
Reviews
Monday: Cinderwich by Cherie Priest 
By: Rebecca Turkewitz
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Wednesday: The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert 
By: David Hebblethwaite
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Friday: Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells 
By: Electra Pritchett
Read Issue
Issue 14 Oct 2024
Poetry
Phrogger 
By: David Bowers-Mason
Poetry
Nose (Knows) 
By: Emma Goldman-Sherman
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 2: An Interview with Kate Heartfield 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Kate Heartfield
Reviews
Monday: The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part One 
By: M. L. Clark
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Wednesday: The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part Two 
By: M. L. Clark
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Friday: The Nightward by R. S. A. Garcia 
By: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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