Fantasy Magazine
, which shut down in 2012, has reopened under the editorship of Arley Sorg & Christie Yant, with the first issue of the new incarnation out this month. We asked the new editors to give us a little history and tell us their plans for the magazine. For more: www.fantasy-magazine.com .
After going on hiatus in 2012,
Fantasy Magazine has been reborn! Tell us about why it’s coming back and how you got involved.
Arley Sorg: This really feels like a case of kismet. I’d been thinking about doing a fiction magazine for a couple of years at least, considering proposals and making secret plans. I had even made an agreement with a publisher (who shall remain nameless). An agreement on a handshake. I was to be brought in as editor-in-chief of a major magazine. It fell through because of some other problems on their end. Not long after, Christie and I did a video chat to catch up. We hadn’t had a chat in a while and we were due. And things just… sparked! Suddenly w
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Jack Black’s beloved character from “School of Rock” is still imparting poignant life lessons nearly 20 years after the movie premiered.
A heartwarming sequence from the 2003 musical comedy has resurfaced on social media this week after writer and animator Hamish Steele shared on Twitter why it “stuck with him as a child.”
In the brief clip, wannabe rock star-turned-elementary school teacher Dewey Finn (Black) gives one of his students, Tomika (Maryam Hassan), an inspiring backstage pep talk about body positivity.
“This scene is more revolutionary than I think they even knew,” Steele wrote in a tweet that has amassed more than 447,000 likes and counting. “Especially the last line.”
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Issue #38, January/February 2021
$3.99 digital only, bi-monthly.
Science fiction and fantasy magazine with original and reprint fiction, non-fiction essays, interviews, and poetry. This issue includes fiction by Sam J. Miller, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Paul Cornell, Christopher Caldwell, and Marissa Lingen; a reprint from Del Sandeen; essays from John Wiswell, Octavia Cade, Katherine Cross, and Aidan Moher; interviews with Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Paul Cornell; and poetry. Cover art by Nilah Magruder. E-book subscribers receive the complete ebook on the first Tuesday of the month. Online readers will receive the first half of the magazine on the first Tuesday of the month. The second half will be available the first Tuesday of the following month. Also available free on the
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