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Publisher of short prose & poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and cyberpunk dystopia. Pays semi-pro rates. Simultaneous Times partner. CLMP member. Like Black Mirror but more political. RadonJournal.com

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Your support knows no bounds and is lovely to see

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Get more from Radon Journal on Patreon creating an online literary journal

Our Patreon now has the option enabled that allows for yearly subscriptions rather than just monthly. Comes with a 10% discount

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Issue 11 Retrospective | Radon Journal Get more from Radon Journal on Patreon

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Issue 11 print cover for Radon.

Issue 11 print cover for Radon.

Have you seen how fucking cool our print front and back covers look, melded across the spine?

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Radon Issue 11 is in print

Radon Issue 11 is in print

Our latest issue is in print!

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In addition to the publisher link above, it's available on your preferred online book retailer worldwide

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fritillary frigate | Issue 11 Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

"Cockle & Foxfire
built a spaceship

from endangered morpho
wings & pull-tabs secreted
from Polar Seltzer cans.”

Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! πŸŽˆπŸ¦‹πŸ’«

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GPS Girl | Issue 11 Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

My new poem "GPS Girl" about a navigation system slowly warping into sentience and...eventually depression..is out todayπŸ’œ @radonjournal.bsky.social and look at that cover!!! This whole issue is filled with dark & strange & powerful words πŸ–€ www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/gps...

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Radon Journal Issue 11 available now

Radon Journal Issue 11 available now

Issue 11 is live!

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This October issue features scifi body horror, AIs fighting to prevent execution, government-forced rebirth, underground rebellion, reclaiming your sexuality and name, critiques of Saudi Arabia, and much more.

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Drumroll for our Best of the Net nominees

@virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social @thomasbehan.bsky.social @haywall.bsky.social

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Issue 11 Infographic

Journal returned to normal submission numbers with about 1,430 split between fiction and poetry.

With 15 accepted poems and stories, we had about 1% acceptance rate.

For the first time, sci-fi and anarchist genres made up an equal number of published works.

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Our final author reveal for Wednesday's Issue 11

We double-dip into the poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip, explore some wholesome space-love with
@marisca.bsky.social, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.

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We're finishing up our PhDs in anarchy as we speak

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Like a beacon saying, "Good people are here"

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If only we could get people to rush ICE concentration camps like that field

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There's an anarchist fictions journal?

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Oh no

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Jared Chen-Wynn and Miah O'Malley

Jared Chen-Wynn and Miah O'Malley

Mark Wyatt and Mark Dimaisip

Mark Wyatt and Mark Dimaisip

Issue 11 Author Reveal – Day 3

@jaredchenwynn.bsky.social, @miahomalley.bsky.social, Mark Wyatt, and Mark Dimaisip, bringing us some scifi body horror, gun violence, repression, revolution, and self-actualization

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Scifi body horror and October, name a more iconic duo

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@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@elisabethring.bsky.social

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Parker O'Neill and Elisabeth Ring

Parker O'Neill and Elisabeth Ring

Angel Leal and Mark Wyatt

Angel Leal and Mark Wyatt

Author Reveal Day 2!

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You're killing it in the giving and receiving reviews part of the industry

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Matthew J. Jockey and Matthew Gheorghe

Matthew J. Jockey and Matthew Gheorghe

g.a.costa and Christ Clemens

g.a.costa and Christ Clemens

Day 1 of our author reveals for next week's Issue 11!

Check back each day to see which authors you'll be reading soon, and what tantalizing titles capture your attention.
@cpclemens.bsky.social
@mathockey.bsky.social

Full issue releases October 1

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Winners of SFPA small poem award

Winners of SFPA small poem award

Huge congratulations to Jean-Paul (@spacecowboybooks.bsky.social) not only for publishing the winning poem, but his third-place finish in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's prestigious Dwarf Stars award with his Radon Issue 6 scifaiku!

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We're all proudly anti-fascist

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The good news is they can't even define what antifa means

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Author reveals and the hype train for October 1's Issue will begin on Wednesday

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What kind of anarchists are you hanging around if you think you're too socialist to be anarchist?

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A few last minute changes of the interior and staff, but the team is bunkering down for final copyedits this weekend.

The work is a good distraction from the world. Being produced under a burgeoning dictatorship, its contents are more important than ever

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Radon journal issue 11 cover art. A robot in front a sunset with half its face missing. The sun is it's left eye.

Radon journal issue 11 cover art. A robot in front a sunset with half its face missing. The sun is it's left eye.

Click the art to view our full Issue 11 cover reveal!

Created by our Artist-in-Residence, Ninja Jo, we are excited to have this as our front cover for October 1's Issue.

Haunting, eye-catching (literally), and emotional, we hope it'll draw you in as much as it did us. #SciFi

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Good, good, let the revolution flow through you.

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