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Betsy Ladyzhets

Hi, I’m Betsy Ladyzhets, high school senior and probable future creative writing major.  I’m aggressively fond of cute hats, terrible special effects, and pit orchestras, and my optimism is probably going to get me killed someday.


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Current Issue
2 Feb 2026
Poetry
Plastic Paradise Awaits 
By: Josh Pearce
Inject direct / the petroleum of salvation
Poetry
The Sunfish Considers Flotation Therapy 
By: Alison Clara Tan
Don’t know why they bob? In blue death boxes?
Fiction
Mother, Darling 
By: Allison Pottern
Wendy knew it wouldn’t be long now before her daughter was taken. She had put the idea from her mind as long as she could, but now Jane was days away from turning thirteen.
Azimuth, Editorials
Statement on ICE Operations in the USA 
By: the Strange Horizons staff
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions.
Podcasts
Podcast: The Aquarium for Lost Souls 
By: Natasha King
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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Reviews
Monday: Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
By: Andy Sawyer
Wednesday: Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree 
By: Anushree Nande
Friday: Hazelthorn by C. G. Drews 
By: Cameron Miguel
Read Issue
Issue 26 Jan 2026
Azimuth, Editorials, Non-Fiction
Who Is It For? 
By: Dan Hartland
By: Aishwarya Subramanian
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction 
By: Zachary Gillan
Articles, Non-Fiction
Axiomatic Scaffolds of Speculative Fiction 
By: Ruthanna Emrys
By: Lila Garrott
By: Alexis Shotwell
Articles, Non-Fiction
Francophone Speculative Fiction and the Challenge of Politics 
By: Alexander Dickow
Articles, Non-Fiction
Quacking Like A Genre 
By: Roseanna Pendlebury
Articles, Non-Fiction
Structural Functionalism and Fantasy Fiction 
By: O. F. Cieri
Poetry
Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues 
By: Seth Wade
Non-Fiction, Poetry
Poem Analysis: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues 
By: Seth Wade
Poetry
Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault 
By: Marie Brennan
Non-Fiction, Poetry
Poem Analysis: Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault 
By: Marie Brennan
Articles, Non-Fiction
Giving Permission: A Roundtable on the Obscurity of Influence 
By: Kristen Bell
By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
By: Charles Payseur
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 20: On Book Clubs 
By: Tristan Beiter, Emma Bee Pernudi-Moon, Tymek Chrzanowski, and Jude Beiter
Reviews
Monday: The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson 
By: Hana Carolina
,
Tuesday: That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas 
By: Sally Parlier
,
Wednesday: No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson 
By: Bill Capossere
,
Thursday: The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes 
By: Phoenix Scholz
,
Friday: Murderbot Season One 
By: Amritesh Mukherjee
Read Issue
Issue 19 Jan 2026
Poetry
Chang’e in Exile 
By: Allison Zhang
Poetry
Priestess IV 
By: Akua Lezli Hope
Fiction
Fingerprints on Glass and Clay 
By: Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira
Reviews
Monday: Daedalus is Dead by Seamus Sullivan 
By: Sneha Pathak
,
Wednesday: Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures by Matthew James Jones 
By: James K. Moran
,
Friday: Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley 
By: Nataliia Sova
Read Issue
Issue 12 Jan 2026
Fiction
The Song of a Non-Human Intelligence 
By: Mical Garcia
Poetry
Creature With the Ticking Heart 
By: Nico Martinez Nocito
Poetry
Questions I Could Not Ask the Giant in Her Presence 
By: R. C. Sherbrooke
Articles, Non-Fiction
Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative Salon 
By: Ada Palmer
By: Charlie Jane Anders
By: Andrea Hairston
By: Annalee Newitz
By: Isis Asare
Reviews
Monday: Syncopation by Whitney French 
By: Paul Kincaid
,
Wednesday: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older 
By: Alex Kingsley
,
Friday: An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict Jacka 
By: Eric Primm
Read Issue
Issue 5 Jan 2026
Poetry
Blurbs for forthcoming genre poetry books 
By: David Clink
By: Troy Harkin
Poetry
The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company 
By: Steve Wheat
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 19: On Cozy Horrors 
By: Dan Hartland
By: Shannon Fay
By: Marisa Mercurio
Reviews
Monday: 2025 In Review: Part One 
By: Our Reviewers
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Wednesday: 2025 In Review: Part Two 
By: Our Reviewers
,
Friday: 2025 In Review: Part Three 
Strange Horizons
Read Issue
Issue 22 Dec 2025
Fiction
Morning Shed 
By: Namita Krishnamurthy
Poetry
The World To Come 
By: Jennifer Hudak
Poetry
O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING 
By: Joemario Umana
Reviews
Monday: What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi 
By: Duncan Lawie
,
Friday: Startlement by Ada Limón 
By: Amy Nagopaleen
Read Issue
Issue 15 Dec 2025
Azimuth
Open Fiction Submissions Window January 19th 
Strange Horizons
Poetry
The ghosts of me are in your machine 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Poetry
Skull-God — A Broadcast from the Trenches 
By: Yucheng Tao
Fiction
Bloodless 
By: Emily Woodworth
Reviews
Monday: Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby 
By: Marisa Mercurio
,
Wednesday: The Deep Forest by Sofía Rhei, translated by Kendal Simmons 
By: Seamus Sullivan
,
Friday: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto 
By: Safia H. Senhaji
Read Issue
Issue 8 Dec 2025
Poetry
Captain’s Lay Back 
By: Jeané D. Ridges
Poetry
Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed. 
By: Maya Wristen
Podcasts
Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog' 
By: Parker Peevyhouse
Podcast read by: Michael Ireland
Reviews
Monday: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings 
By: Roseanna Pendlebury
,
Wednesday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman 
By: Rachel Cordasco
,
Friday: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson 
By: Shannon Fay
Read Issue
Issue 1 Dec 2025
Fiction
I Wish You Died Laughing 
By: Lio Abendan
Poetry
Excerpt From the Memoirs of a Saint 
By: Jenna Le
Poetry
Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b 
By: Colleen S. Harris
Azimuth, Editorials
For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility 
By: the Strange Horizons staff
Critical Friends, Non-Fiction, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 18: On Fantasy and History 
By: Dan Hartland
By: Nick Hubble
By: Cameron Miguel
Reviews
Monday: Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp 
By: William Shaw
,
Wednesday: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi 
By: David Lewis
,
Friday: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz 
By: Nileena Sunil
Read Issue
Issue 24 Nov 2025
Poetry
A Song from Kulara 
By: Jayasri Sridhar
Poetry
Strands of Feelings 
By: A. A. Ademola
Articles, Non-Fiction
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence 
By: Tanvir Ahmed
Articles, Non-Fiction
Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up 
By: P.H. Low
Columns, Non-Fiction
Stories From The Radio: The Revolt of the Worms 
By: Kuzhali Manickavel
Podcasts, Writing While Disabled
Ageism and Ableism at Conventions (Writing While Disabled S2E5A) 
By: Kate Johnston
By: Kristy Anne Cox
Reviews
Monday: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow      
By: Nick Hubble
,
Wednesday: A Granite Silence by Nina Allan 
By: David Hebblethwaite
,
Friday: Talamasca: The Secret Order 
By: AJ Odasso
Read Issue
Issue 17 Nov 2025
Poetry
Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast 
By: Jessy Randall
Poetry
The Face Stealer Tells Me What Emptiness Feels Like 
By: Sean Glatch
Podcasts, SH@25
Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17) 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: R.B. Lemberg
Reviews
Monday: The Curators by Maggie Nye 
By: Roy Salzman-Cohen
,
Wednesday: Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago 
By: Shannon Fay
,
Friday: We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris 
By: Ian J. Simpson
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