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Sean Guynes

Sean Guynes (he/him/@saguynes ) is a writer, editor, and SFF critic who lives in Ann Arbor, MI. His shorter writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.


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Current Issue
4 Jul 2022
Azimuth, Fiction
Call for Volunteer First Readers 
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Poetry
What is a Monster? 
By: Sharang Biswas
you ask Mother. She wraps you in teeth, tendrils,
Poetry
Face 
By: David C. Kopaska-Merkel
in full day you’re hillock and divot, camouflaged in plain sight
Fiction
Reprise 
By: Samantha Lane Murphy
“Did you regret what you said before Carl passed?”
Reviews
Monday: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 
By: Jenny Hamilton
Wednesday: Redundant by Bitan Chakraborty, translated from the original Bengali by Malati Mukherjee 
By: Somudranil Sarkar
Friday: Boys, Beasts, and Men by Sam J. Miller 
By: Anthony Cardno
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Issue 27 Jun 2022
Art, Poetry
the fear of cyborgs to believe in flesh 
By: Vanessa Jae
Art by: Maria Carvalho
Poetry
A Slow Apocalypse 
By: Shreejita Majumder
Columns, Non-Fiction
Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup 
By: Maria Haskins
Articles, Non-Fiction
Kalpavigyan, or Bengali SFF: An Interview with Dip Ghosh 
By: Gautam Bhatia
By: Dip Ghosh
Reviews
Monday: The House of Styx by Derek Künsken 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Thursday: January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters by Erica L. Satifka 
By: Stephen Case
Read Issue
Issue 20 Jun 2022
Azimuth, Editorials
Fund Drive Update and Call for Editorial Volunteers 
By: Romie Stott
Fiction
That Old Sweet Water 
By: Rick Hollon
Poetry
The Malachite Storm 
By: Devin Miller
Poetry
The one who counts to transcend 
By: Angel Leal
Reviews
Monday: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 
By: Tina S. Zhu
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Wednesday: Face by Joma West 
By: Christina Ladd
,
Friday: Brian W. Aldiss by Paul Kincaid 
By: Kate Macdonald
Read Issue
Issue 13 Jun 2022
Fiction
Drosophila and the Beast 
By: Bryce Baron-Sips
Poetry
On a dreamscape where my father is a spaceship pirate 
By: Martins Deep
Poetry
one year before the time jump 
By: Barbara Genova
Reviews
Monday: Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy 
By: Debbie Gascoyne
,
Wednesday: Kinderkrankenhaus by Jesi Bender 
By: Hunter Liguore
,
Friday: Apocalyptic Visions in the Anthropocene and the Rise of Climate Fiction edited by Kübra Baysal 
By: Hannah Barton
Read Issue
Issue 9 Jun 2022
Fiction
Objects of Value 
By: AnaMaria Curtis
Poetry
Biophilia 
By: Sarah Grey
Non-Fiction
Maps, Worldbuilding, and the Journey in Fantasy 
By: Noemi Arellano-Summer
Poetry
The Galaxy That Swallowed Me From the Inside Out 
By: R.B. Simon
Fiction
You, Me, Her, You, Her, I 
By: Isabel J. Kim
Poetry
miracle babies 
By: Roshani Chokshi
Poetry
Drowning in This Sunken City 
By: Deborah L. Davitt
Reviews
Thursday: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 
By: Shinjini Dey
,
Tuesday: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier translated by Adriana Hunter 
By: Dan Hartland
,
Saturday: Everything Everywhere All At Once 
By: S. Qiouyi Lu 陸秋逸
Read Issue
Issue 6 Jun 2022
Fiction
Bee Season 
By: Michelle Kulwicki
Poetry
Atlantic 
By: Samuel A. Adeyemi
Poetry
“Streets,” by Persephone 
By: Terese Mason Pierre
Podcasts
Podcast: 6 June Poetry 
By: Samuel A. Adeyemi
By: Terese Mason Pierre
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Podcast read by: Samuel A. Adeyemi
Reviews
Monday: Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
,
Monday: Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn 
By: A. S. Moser
,
Wednesday: Russian Doll, Season Two 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
Read Issue
Issue 30 May 2022
Articles
The Art of Futures 
By: Heather McDougal
Art
the end of winter 
By: Daniela Viçoso
Art by: Daniela Viçoso
Art, Comics
When They Sank 
By: Fernanda Castro
By: Sunmi
Art by: Sunmi
Art, Fiction
Mycelysis 
By: G.G. Diniz
Art by: C. A. P. Ward
Art, Poetry
Machinist Hands 
By: Nicky Russell
Art by: Garden
Art, Poetry
“Ave Maria” and “the mezzanine” 
By: Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li
Art by: Palloma Barreto
Art
Unspooling Her Heart 
By: Galen Dara
Art by: Galen Dara
Art, Fiction
The Harp 
By: E. A. Petricone
Art by: Racheal Bruce
Art, Comics
Which One Is Meat 
By: Nadia Shammas
By: Isabel Burke
Art by: Isabel Burke
Reviews
Monday: The Crimson Cage by John Lees, Alex Cormack, Ashley Cormack and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou 
By: ML Kejera
Read Issue
Issue 23 May 2022
Poetry
I Grew Up in a Haunted House 
By: Tylor James
Poetry
Lost and Found 
By: Yee Heng Yeh
Columns, Non-Fiction
Writing While Disabled 
By: Petra Kuppers
By: Kristy Anne Cox
Columns, Non-Fiction
Stories from the Radio 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Columns, Non-Fiction
The Myriad Drumbeats of Afrofuturism: Decolonizing Stargate (Part Two) 
By: Mame Bougouma Diene
Reviews
Monday: Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance edited by Jonathan Strahan 
By: William Shaw
,
Wednesday: The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel 
By: Nicole Berland
,
Friday: To Climates Unknown: An Alternate History of a World Without America by Arturo Serrano 
By: Andy Sawyer
Read Issue
Issue 16 May 2022
Poetry
The broken hill and the breath 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Poetry
i am scabs, one and legion 
By: Tahnia Barrie
Art, Fiction
Sestu Hunts the Last Deer in Heaven 
By: M. H. Cheung
Art by: Mateus Roberts
Reviews
Monday: Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi 
By: Catherine Rockwood
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Wednesday: The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture by Mark Bould 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Friday: Spear by Nicola Griffith 
By: T. S. Miller
Read Issue
Issue 9 May 2022
Fiction
The Destination Star 
By: Gregory Marlow
Poetry
Half-Quarter-Life Crisis 
By: Tania Chen
Poetry
Ave, Verum Corpus 
By: Candice M. Kelsey
Podcasts
Podcast: 9 May Poetry 
By: Candice M. Kelsey
By: Tania Chen
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Reviews
Monday: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod 
By: Redfern Jon Barrett
,
Wednesday: Redder Days by Sue Rainsford 
By: Zachary Gillan
,
Friday: Those Fantastic Lives by Bradley Sides 
By: Ai Jiang
Read Issue
Issue 2 May 2022
Fiction
Heavy Possessions 
By: Seoung Kim
Poetry
i roll up to the club in a gundam 
By: Eric Wang
Poetry
your subcutaneous mermaid 
By: Sara S. Messenger
Podcasts
Podcast: 2 May Poetry 
By: Eric Wang
By: Sara S. Messenger
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Podcast read by: Sara S. Messenger
Reviews
Monday: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
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Wednesday: […] by Ava Hofmann 
By: Tristan Beiter
,
Friday: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 
By: Ian J. Simpson
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