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Melanie Harding-Shaw

Melanie Harding-Shaw is a speculative fiction writer, policy geek, and mother-of-three from Wellington, New Zealand. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Daily Science Fiction and The Best of British Fantasy 2019. You can find her on Twitter or at https://www.melaniehardingshaw.com.


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7 Apr 2025
Fiction
No One Dies of Longing 
By: Anjali Sachdeva
It is no small thing to call forth life from the desert; do not imagine any but a witch could do it so well.
Poetry
Circumbendibus 
By: Wamuhu Mwaura
roaring engines now my battle hymn
Poetry
Reaper 
By: Mary Soon Lee
To the timorous mouse / she is a mother’s nest
Reviews
Monday: Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) by Pippa Goldschmidt 
By: Octavia Cade
Wednesday: J. G. Ballard’s Crash by Paul March-Russell and Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid 
By: Adam Roberts
Friday: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
By: Eric Primm
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Issue 31 Mar 2025
Azimuth, Editorials
Special Issue: Ageing and SFF 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Art, Fiction
The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon 
By: Jennifer Hudak
Art by: Duds Saldanha
Poetry
Everyone dies 
By: Purbasha Roy
Poetry
The blanket, the secret, the dark 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Poetry
A Tree, At Peace 
By: Devan Barlow
Poetry
view 
By: M. Frost
Articles, Non-Fiction
Grannies Against Oppression 
By: Isabel Black
Podcasts, Writing While Disabled
Writing While Disabled S2E2: In conversation with Farah Mendlesohn 
By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston
By: Farah Mendlesohn
Reviews
Monday: On the Calculation of Volume I & II by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland 
By: Will McMahon
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Wednesday: Under the Eye of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda 
By: Akankshya Abismruta
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Friday: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, translated by Sinan Antoon 
By: Dan Hartland
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Issue 24 Mar 2025
Poetry
TICKLING GAMES #4 
By: Nada Almosa
Poetry
The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story 
By: Asa Delaney
Podcasts
Podcast: Reprise 
By: Samantha Lane Murphy
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Columns, Non-Fiction
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other 
By: Eugen Bacon
Articles, Non-Fiction
Monster of the Week as Realism 
By: Francis Van Ganson
Reviews
Monday: Honeymoons in Temporary Locations by Ashley Shelby 
By: Shannon Fay
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Wednesday: A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter 
By: Marisa Mercurio
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Friday: Adam and Eve in Paradise by José Maria de Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 
By: Sally Parlier
Read Issue
Issue 17 Mar 2025
Azimuth
Open Fiction Submission Windows - 2025 
By: Aigner Loren Wilson
Poetry
Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale 
By: Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Poetry
Machine makers 
By: Emma Lottie Hayes
Fiction
Machine Hearts 
By: Jeff Dingler
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 10: An interview with Jordan Kurella, and a reading of his poem, 'this tree is a eulogy' 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Jordan Kurella
Reviews
Monday: Dune: Prophecy 
By: Marina Berlin
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Wednesday: Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan 
By: Archita Mittra
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Friday: Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen 
By: Aaron Heil
Read Issue
Issue 10 Mar 2025
Poetry
To Be the Change 
By: Nico Martinez Nocito
Fiction
Another Trip Around the Sun 
By: Jon Poley
Poetry
Laika 
By: Timi Sanni
Podcasts
Podcast: Tomorrow is Waiting 
By: Holli Mintzer
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Reviews
Monday: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher 
By: Tristan Beiter
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Wednesday: Necessary Poisons by Andrea Blythe 
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi
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Friday: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
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Issue 3 Mar 2025
Azimuth, Editorials
Call for Volunteers: Patreon Manager 
By: the Strange Horizons staff
Poetry
Nuliajuk and the Birds 
By: Shantell Powell
Poetry
Interior Castle 
By: Samantha Pious
Fiction
The Luring Lantern 
By: Laura Cranehill
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Special Episode: A 2025 Hugo Awards Primer 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Romie Stott
Reviews
Monday: Private Rites by Julia Armfield 
By: Chelsea Davis
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Wednesday: ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado, translated by Sue Burke 
By: Rachel Cordasco
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Friday: The Dark Delight of Being Strange by James B. Haile III 
By: Ian J. Simpson
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Issue 24 Feb 2025
Poetry
Unbound 
By: Deborah L. Davitt
Poetry
The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons) 
By: Ryu Ando | 安堵 龍
Articles, Non-Fiction
White People Wielding Needles 
By: E.D.E. Bell
Podcasts, Writing While Disabled
Writing While Disabled: S2E1 In Conversation with Kate Johnston 
By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston
Columns
Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Fiction Roundup 
By: Maria Haskins
Reviews
Monday: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 
By: Bill Capossere
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Wednesday: Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja 
By: Andy Sawyer
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Friday: Magica Riot by Kara Buchanan 
By: Dean Leetal
Read Issue
Issue 17 Feb 2025
Poetry
In the Zoo 
By: Kunjana Parashar
Poetry
In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love 
By: Karan Kapoor
SH@25
SH@25 Episode 9: An Interview with Brandon O'Brien 
By: Brandon O'Brien
By: Kat Kourbeti
Fiction
Arachnomorphosis 
By: Beth Goder
Reviews
Monday: Ixelles by Johannes Anyuru translated by Nichola Smalley 
By: Areeb Ahmad
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Wednesday: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera 
By: Helena Ramsaroop
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Friday: High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden 
By: Eric Hendel
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Issue 10 Feb 2025
Poetry
trogdor walks into a scout meeting 
By: Jennessa Hester
Poetry
Where Frequencies Talk Over 
By: Mark Dimaisip
Fiction
Ticket po mamser. 
By: Caroline Hung
Azimuth, Editorials
Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Podcasts
Podcast: Sandrine 
By: Alexandra Munck
Podcast read by: Claire McNerney
Reviews
Monday: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey 
By: Stephen Case
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Wednesday: Dream Machine: A Portrait of Artificial Intelligence by Appupen and Laurent Daudet 
By: Marina Berlin
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Friday: Wolfish by Kritika Kapoor 
By: Sneha Pathak
Read Issue
Issue 27 Jan 2025
Azimuth, Editorials
On Claims and Criticism 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Articles, Non-Fiction
Who Is In Danger? 
By: Paul Kincaid
Articles, Non-Fiction
Ectogenesis and the Science Fiction Futures of Reproduction 
By: Zoe L. Tongue
Articles, Non-Fiction
Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures         
By: Jacqueline Nyathi
Articles, Non-Fiction
And Back Again: The Enduring Appeal of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy 
By: Tansy Gardam
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Celts Meet Celtic Fantasy 
By: Nat Harrington
Poetry
The Egg 
By: River
Poetry
The Resolution of N 
By: Lillian Tsay
Poetry
Frankenstein’s Tongue 
By: Liam Campbell
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 8: An Interview with Bogi Takács 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Bogi Takács
Reviews
Monday: Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions by Nalo Hopkinson 
By: Eugen Bacon
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Wednesday: Takaoka’s Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa 
By: Prashanth Gopalan
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Friday: We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us by Andrew Mangham 
By: M. L. Clark
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Issue 20 Jan 2025
Azimuth
Stop Surveillance Copaganda: A Collaboration with Fight for the Future 
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Fiction
A Charm to Keep the Evil Eye Away From Your Campervan; or, Roamin' Rights 
By: Christopher R. Muscato
Fiction
Crisis Actors 
By: Maddison Stoff
By: Corey Jae White
Fiction
Curlews 
By: Cecilia Ananías Soto
Fiction
Murder in the Clavist Autonomous Zone 
By: Rich Larson
Poetry
age of villains 
By: Gerald L. Coleman
Fiction
Taking Back the City 
By: Christine Phan
Poetry
hypercapnia 
By: Ismail Yusuf Olumoh
Podcasts
Podcast: Bee Season 
By: Michelle Kulwicki
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Reviews
Monday: The Machine Autocorrects Code to I by Chanlee Luu 
By: Tristan Beiter
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Wednesday: Motheater by Linda H. Codega 
By: E. C. Barrett
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Friday: Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain The World by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg 
By: Vivian Wagner
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