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Anna Cates

Dr. Anna Cates teaches college and graduate level writing, literature, and education online. She has published a variety of books (poetry, fiction, and drama) through www.cyberwit.net, prolificpress.com, and wipfandstock.com. She resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two beautiful kitties.


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Current Issue
20 Mar 2023
Azimuth
Open Fiction Submissions Window in April 
By: Aigner Loren Wilson
Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions on April 26th, 2023, at 9 a.m. UTC! To keep our response times manageable and submission windows more frequent, there will be a 1,000-story cap on submissions.
Art, Fiction
Always and Forever, Only You 
By: Iona Datt Sharma
Art by: Julia Quandt
It started with a bit of music, something no one else was even listening to.
Poetry
Some Facts are Difficult to Discuss 
By: M. E. Silverman
My father’s favorite nebula, Lemon Slice, is named after his favorite dessert.
Poetry
The Subway Is Another Place To Die 
By: Angela Liu
The Police are dancing under the red lights / without their heads
Reviews
Monday: Seasons in Hippoland by Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ 
By: Manasa Tantravahi
Monday: Full Immersion by Gemma Amor 
By: Ai Jiang
Wednesday: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett 
By: Catherine Baker
Read Issue
Issue 13 Mar 2023
Poetry
Urban Legends of the Ohio River 
By: Laura Grothaus
Poetry
魔神仔 (Móshénzǐ) 
By: L. Acadia
Fiction
The Sing-along Killing and Silent Death of Malakine, the Horse Whisperer 
By: Abhilash Jayachandra
Reviews
Monday: Illuminations by Alan Moore 
By: William Shaw
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Wednesday: Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 
By: Electra Pritchett
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Friday: Conscious Designs by Nathanial White 
By: Seamus Sullivan
Read Issue
Issue 6 Mar 2023
Fiction
The Gratitude of Mice 
By: Yume Kitasei
Poetry
Wide-Shining Craters 
By: Jace DeAngelo
Poetry
Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse 
By: Maura O'Dea
Reviews
Monday: Space Trash, Volume 1 by Jenn Woodall 
By: Archita Mittra
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Wednesday: Ledge by Stacey McEwan 
By: Eric Hendel
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Friday: Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin by Stephen Dedman 
By: Vivian Wagner
Read Issue
Issue 20 Feb 2023
Art, Fiction
Locavore 
By: Kim Harbridge
Art by: Garden
Poetry
Turing Test 
By: Fiona Lu
Poetry
The Cemetery 
By: Holly Day
Azimuth
Temporary Poetry Submissions Pause: Don't Panic 
By: Romie Stott
Reviews
Monday: Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell 
By: Rachel Cordasco
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Wednesday: The Enhancers by Anne K. Yoder 
By: E. C. Barrett
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Friday: Arkdust by Alex Smith 
By: James K. Moran
Read Issue
Issue 13 Feb 2023
Fiction
Fire and Ice 
By: Anya Markov
Poetry
queer-pastoral, somewhere in the slipstream 
By: Andrew Sinclair
Poetry
Iron Burns Out 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Reviews
Monday: Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
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Wednesday: Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw 
By: Zachary Gillan
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Friday: New Religion 
By: Mikko Toivanen
Read Issue
Issue 6 Feb 2023
Fiction
Hers 
By: Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira
Poetry
A thought for wishes 
By: Purbasha Roy
Poetry
The Thing (1982) as Silent Film 
By: Connor Yeck
Reviews
Monday: In The Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman 
By: Stephanie Burt
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Wednesday: The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence by Daria Schmitt 
By: Prashanth Gopalan
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Friday: Mundanity by Jonathan Carreau 
By: Ian J. Simpson
Read Issue
Issue 30 Jan 2023
Azimuth, Editorials
Criticism In Tribute 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Non-Fiction
Thinking Fresh 
By: Paul Kincaid
Columns, Non-Fiction
Strange Horizons Tributes to Maureen Kincaid Speller 
By: Our Reviewers
Articles, Non-Fiction
Maureen Kincaid Speller: Not for the Squee-mish 
By: Paul March-Russell
Articles, Non-Fiction
Recycled Air: Wayfarers and the Tyranny of the Everyday 
By: Clark Seanor
Articles, Non-Fiction
In Search of Green Overshoots 
By: Niall Harrison
Articles, Non-Fiction
(Re)Framing the Narrative: Worldbuilding on the Periphery 
By: Zhui Ning Chang
Poetry
In Review 
By: Romie Stott
Poetry
In memoriam Maureen K. Speller 
By: Catherine Rockwood
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Podcast: Critical Friends Episode 3 
By: Maureen Kincaid Speller, Aishwarya Subramanian, Jonah Sutton-Morse, and Dan Hartland
Podcasts, Poetry
Podcast: January 30 Poetry 
By: Catherine Rockwood
By: Romie Stott
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Podcast read by: Catherine Rockwood
Podcast read by: Romie Stott
Podcast read by: Maureen Kincaid Speller
Reviews
Monday: Babel by R. F. Kuang 
By: Shinjini Dey
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Tuesday: Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years by Peter Nicholls 
By: Andy Sawyer
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Wednesday: HellSans by Ever Dundas 
By: Phoenix Scholz
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Thursday: Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M. E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi 
By: Kit Eginton
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Friday: House of the Dragon Season One 
By: Archita Mittra
Read Issue
Issue 23 Jan 2023
Azimuth
New Staff Member Call: Social Media Editor 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Poetry
A Measured Light 
By: Jim Racobs
Poetry
Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in Its State of Rest 
By: Samuel A. Betiku
Articles, Non-Fiction
Reconstructing Lion City 
By: Nicholas B. Chua
Articles, Non-Fiction
Securing Neocolonialism: Reverse Extractivism in Tade Thompson’s The Wormwood Trilogy 
By: Jenna Hanchey
Columns, Non-Fiction
Writing While Disabled 
By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Columns, Non-Fiction
Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup 
By: Maria Haskins
Reviews
Monday: Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher 
By: Octavia Cade
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Wednesday: Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk 
By: Jenny Hamilton
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Friday: Rosebud by Paul Cornell 
By: Eric Hendel
Read Issue
Issue 16 Jan 2023
Poetry
shit you might see + hear if you time travel with juju: 
By: Victor Forna
Poetry
The Witch of Pig Island 
By: Anna Cates
Art, Fiction
Has Anyone Actually Had Any Success Saging Their Home? 
By: T. Takeda Wise
Art by: Vito Castrillo
Reviews
Monday: Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans 
By: M. L. Clark
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Wednesday: Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste 
By: Christina Ladd
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Friday: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman 
By: Matt Holder
Read Issue
Issue 9 Jan 2023
Fiction
missed connections - Central square today around 930 
By: Jess Cameron
Poetry
birangona song in a walmart parking lot 
By: Lydia Abedeen
Poetry
In a Parallel Carterhaugh, 
By: R. F. Hovis
Reviews
Monday: Our Fruiting Bodies by Nisi Shawl 
By: William Shaw
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Wednesday: Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry by adrienne maree brown 
By: Sessily Watt
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Friday: The Saint of Witches by Avra Margariti 
By: Tristan Beiter
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