Radon Journal

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

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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?

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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

Our print editions have the art carefully placed across the spine to bridge the front and back cover. Here's how it will look to those who pick up a copy on Sunday

Hey!! I have a brand new poem coming out this Sunday!!

Excited to share that my first story of 2026 comes out this Sunday in Radon Journal!

It's almost here:) On February 1st @radonjournal.bsky.social launches their next issue with a short story included from yours truly! I am over the moon!! 🥰 #WritingCommunity

Our final day of author reveals is here. Radon Issue 12 has 16 extraordinary sci-fi pieces, and they're coming your way on Sunday!
@manuelaamiouny.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social @eleanorlennox.bsky.social

Third day of author reveals is upon us!!! Four more amazing writers and works from Radon 12. Choose your fatal SF end: comet, home invasion, religious mania, or vengeful clone

Second round of Radon #12 author reveals!

@lucienrstarchild.bsky.social
@bugthewriter.bsky.social
@amulderwrites.bsky.social
@rdpassmore.bsky.social

The nihilist penguin meme depicting a lone penguin on an ice field, with text that says "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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A series of titles and symbols on a green scifi background

Day 1 of Author Reveals for Issue #12
Out February 1st

@slashnburnett.bsky.social

Chris, you post about rockets, mixology, and local lore and artisans; you seem fantastically smart! Happy to have met you virtually, and sorry about the mixup!

CHRIS CLEMENS: Totalitarian hordes of violent, beady-eyed creatures in our streets It's a poem about rats

We cover ice (the Penguin meme) and ICE (government thugs) in our discussion of Chris Clemens’ poem "The Rat King's Rising Star."

Radon's Substack brings you deep dives and interviews with the most innovative SF writers working today.

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Ah! Our mistake. You have a doppelganger.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position