Is it any surprise that I'm completely taken-aback, made-up, bowled-over, and even things that AREN'T needlessly-hyphenated phrasal verbs about making this shortlist?
Thanks to our contributors for making Mythaxis what it is ❤️
Obviously... I want it 😂 but also, best of luck to all the candidates!
Really lovely article about TriCon 2026 in Indie Author Magazine! Thank you, Robyn! 💙
indieauthormagazine.com/bookstore-in...
I'm touched to find myself voted Federmeister (roughly "master of the pen") in the inaugural Foofs, weird awards for all the small but perfectly formed little publications out there!
foofaraw.press/presenting-t...
Congrats to the winners, but click the link: good stuff in from all the nominees ❤️
Conference lynch pin @charlotteashley.bsky.social with the most easterly and westerly long-distance attendees, 5k+km for me and @nilaewhite.com!
@tricon-hfx.bsky.social was a great success – thanks and congratulations to all the attendees, volunteers, and organisers ❤️❤️❤️
@tridenthalifax.bsky.social
The shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Magazine or Periodical are:
📚 Ginger Nuts of Horror / @gnofhorror.com
📚 Remains
📚 Phantasmagoria
📚 Strange Horizons / @strangehorizons.bsky.social
📚 Mythaxis Magazine / @mythaxis.bsky.social
Regular contributor Emma Bu—
...huh. We actually have regular contributors. Weird.
—anyway, Emma Burnett has an sf novella out this summer! EX PARTUM pits a mother's strength of will against the weight of social expectations - preorder at the link:
emmaburnett.carrd.co
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
The first conference hosted by Trident Booksellers and Cafe in the Canadian province drew two hundred authors, readers, and aspiring writers and served as a reminder that some of the most impactful au...
indieauthormagazine.com
foofaraw.press
Writer of stories
The shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Magazine or Periodical are:
📚 Ginger Nuts of Horror / @gnofhorror.com
📚 Remains
📚 Phantasmagoria
📚 Strange Horizons / @strangehorizons.bsky.social
📚 Mythaxis Magazine / @mythaxis.bsky.social
Please welcome to the stage... FOOFIE and THE FLOOF!!!
Perhaps a case of "too little too late", but Mythaxis (and many of our 2025 stories, in both text and audio formats) are eligible as candidates for the British Fantasy Awards – with voting open until... er, well, tomorrow!
britishfantasysociety.org/voting-opens...
Mythaxis Magazine is forever ad free...
...but, if you find yourself yearning for more Emma Burnett in one go than you can find in our back issues, the solution is nigh: EX PARTUM is a dystopian novella examining expectations of motherhood, out now!
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
emmaburnett.carrd.co
Andrew Variously
Andrew Variously
Andrew Variously
Amazing – to be on the Best Magazine/Periodical shortlist for the 2026 BFS Awards – to be considered alongside these titles ❤️
All the shortlists are at the link: britishfantasysociety.org/the-british-...
That's a wrap! Here are your 2025 winners of The Foofs! These wonderful stories and more will be collected in a print anthology with some absolutely beautiful cover art I can't wait to show off. Until next time... Stay foofy! https://foofaraw.press/presenting-the-foofs-2025/
Mythaxis Magazine
The shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Magazine or Periodical are:
📚 Ginger Nuts of Horror / @gnofhorror.com
📚 Remains
📚 Phantasmagoria
📚 Strange Horizons / @strangehorizons.bsky.social
📚 Mythaxis Magazine / @mythaxis.bsky.social
