Radon Journal

As we enter the second half of Issue 13's reading period, we would love to see more transhumanist or cyberpunk flash fiction.

We have a fair number of longer dystopian works, and want to round out with our futuristic meat and potatoes

🙂 Smile 🙂 through 🙂 the 🙂 pain!!!

We're returning to author features and finishing up Issue #11!
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social gives a multidimensional twist to capitalist envy in "Instructions for Self Reflection."

Wonderful to meet all the Radon authors (and some readers) at AWP this past week. It's nice to be reminded that the journal we put out while scattered across the digital world has real-world impact

The introverts only emerge every once in a while, and it's nice to emerge among similar others

@radonjournal.bsky.social a poem by @lisatimpf.bsky.social Lisa Timpf.
(CW: AI superseding human writing) www.radonjournal.com/issue5/the-d...

Our EIC will be at AWP manning the SFWA table (T346). Come by for speculative poetry talk and some Radon copies and bookmarks out of a trenchcoat

Flat lay of Radon Journal Issue 12 next to a cup of cappuccino. The blue and green cover depicts a man painting Aurora Borealis in the sky, and the cappuccino has a bunny drawn in the milk.

Radon Journal issue 12 opened on page 46 with the poem “I can’t decide what to feel about this life” by Manuela Amiouny and a cappuccino in the background.

Got my physical copy of @radonjournal.bsky.social Issue 12 last week! It’s such a beautiful issue, and I’m still incredibly happy to be amongst so many phenomenal pieces!

Feat. a whimsical cappuccino

Huge congratulations to the two Radon poems nominated in this year's Rhysling Awards:

1) "Mannequin Mom" by Rebecca O’Bern (Issue 10)

2) "Mend Your Broken Bow and Aim It at the Sky" by @virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social (Issue 10)

sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

Ingram dragged their feet printing, but all the print copies of Radon Issue 12 should have arrived to you by today

Looking for help nominating for the Nebula Poetry Award? Below is a thread of Radon's eligible 2025 sci-fi poetry you can explore

Also check out @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @heartlines-spec.com for the best (free) spec poetry you can find online

Radon Pay Rate is now 2.5 cents a word

Radon Journal's fiction pay rate is increasing to 2.5¢/word!

We are also implementing a $15 minimum for fiction to ensure micro-fiction authors are taken care of.

Cheers to the authors who refuse to remain quiet or complicit.

Stack of books. Radon Issue 12 is at the top

Open page of issue 12. "I Can't Decide What to Feel About this Life" by Manuela Amiouny

Radon Journal Issue 12 cover featuring a silhouetted figure painting the sky with an aurora borealis

Copyright page of issue 12

Mail day! Adding Issue 12 of @radonjournal.bsky.social to my stack of production babies.

Quick turnaround, you say

The award page is a year outdated it seems

Shiny, irradiated copies of Issue #12 have started to arrive! Have you ordered yours yet? 16 all-new SF poems and stories for the low low low price of $6.99

linkeroo:

shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

Emma is our most-published author, known for her unique, stylistic writing styles that innovate the short fiction form.

Her latest story with us is a softer, sweeter, more existential, and loving story that mixes sadness with yearing, and hope with generational spaceships

Today is the final day to nominate poets for the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award

Radon has a plethora of short poems from Issues 11, 10, and 9, ready for you to nominate

They're so fucking dumb

All of our readers in the UK, we encourage you to buy copies whenever possible from Seditionist Distribution.

We work closely with them directly each issue, and snagging a copy supports not only us, but the broader anarchist movement in Western Europe

Now that we've all had some time to process Issue 12, how were everyone's reactions?

Now this is a pretty board

Wonderful to see Lex doing great

Listen, I cannot stress enough how awesome this issue is. I had the pleasure of reading some of these stories in their early stages, and they are SO GOOD. Stop reading this post and start reading this magazine.

I have been submitting to @radonjournal.bsky.social for years!! It is an honor to have a short story in their latest issue alongside these incredible artists🥰 The issue is available for purchase, or the stories can be read on their website!! #WritingCommunity

I kid you not, this has never happened. Consider it my early valentine's gift to you.
Read this (honestly, actually) quite sweet story here: www.radonjournal.com/issue-12/at-...

@radonjournal.bsky.social #sff

My poem "I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO FEEL ABOUT THIS LIFE" is now available to read! Thank you Radon for giving it a home amongst many other talented writers!

Radon Journal Issue 12 is out now, including my sci-fi short story, The Atures Parrot. This one is very special for me, because it's a story I hoped I'd be able to tell for a very long time. It's about gravity, memory, and being the last one to speak a dead language 🚀

It's out!

My new flash sci-fi story, "Uncontrolled Emotion," features a censor with no memory of signing his contract, and two women whispering on the other end of a line.

It's free to read right now, and be sure to check out the other stories this issue, too! I certainly will be!

Issue 12 is live!

Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.

www.radonjournal.com/issue12

A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures

Issue 12 launch graphic

Issue 12 is live!

Sixteen stories and poems are available on our site, and we have print copies + eBook + PDF version available.

www.radonjournal.com/issue12

A speculative commentary on the present world with just enough hope that we're sure you'll mourn freedom and cry beauty in equal measures

Issue 12 stats. Fiction subs down, poetry subs up, acceptance rate 1.1%

Click to view our Issue 12 infograph. Fiction submissions are lower, but more poetry submissions made up the difference. Acceptance rate went up just a tad to 1.1% due to more flash fiction. Few people are writing dystopia amid Trump 2.0. All but one story is sci-fi. Transhumanism only 6% this round