Susan Marie Groppi, longtime fiction editor at Strange Horizons, is stepping down. Groppi has been with the online magazine for over a decade, serving for a time as both editor-in-chief as well as a fiction editor, and will continue to work with the magazine in an advisory role. Late last year fiction editor Karen Meisner stepped down [...]

Zahir, a quarterly journal of speculative fiction, is closing, effective immediately. Twenty issues of Zahir were published in print from 2003-2009, and a further eight were published after the magazine moved online, the most recent in October 2011. Editor Sheryl Tempchin says the online archive will remain available indefinitely at www.zahirtales.com, and print back issues are still [...]

James Gunn’s Ad Astra, an online resource site for authors and scholars published through Kansas University’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction, has issued a call for submissions for a new fiction publication of the same name. The first issue, whose theme, according to issue editor Isaac Bell, is “communication and information,” will be released [...]

New publisher John Joseph Adams announced today that he will merge Fantasy magazine into Lightspeed magazine. The number of fiction pieces from each magazine will remain the same, with four fantasy and four science fiction stories in each issue of the revamped Lightspeed. Because the number of fiction pieces is doubling, the price of the [...]

SFWA released a statement today announcing the term of probation for Night Shade Books has been lifted. The publisher was placed on probation as a qualifying market for the writers’ organization in July 2010, following “concerns about contractual issues with their authors.” Night Shade has since met a series of benchmarks set up by SFWA to “return [...]

Robert Silverberg is now a member of the Amazing Stories Project editorial advisory board, which plans to revive Amazing Stories magazine in 2012. He joins Barry Malzberg, Joe Wrzos, Patrick Price, and Ted White on the board. For more, see the Amazing Stories website.

SF/F line Angry Robot announced plans to launch a sister imprint for YA fiction called Strange Chemistry. Starting in September 2012, the imprint will release five titles in its first year, then move to a one-book-per-month schedule. Like Angry Robot, Strange Chemistry will simultaneously publish in the US and the UK, and in paperback and e-book [...]

John Joseph Adams, editor of Fantasy and Lightspeed, has purchased both magazines from Prime books. Adams will become the official publisher in January 2012. He took over as editor for Fantasy magazine earlier this year, and has edited Lightspeed since its June 2010 debut. Fantasy magazine was established in 2005, and has been nominated for the [...]

For the third time in nearly three years, Realms of Fantasy has announced that it will cease publication. The current owners, William and Kim Gilchrist of Damnation Books LLC, have announced the October 2011 issue will be the last. The Gilchrists explained in a statement that the magazine has been losing money, and that they will [...]

Audible has launched a new curated imprint, Neil Gaiman Presents, as part of their ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) platform, which helps rightsholders find narrators and producers to create audiobooks. Gaiman says, “I’ve picked books I loved and wanted more people to find, and worked as closely as I could with each author to find just [...]