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Tucson Writers Workshop
(The Back Page)
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Strange Horizons wants your five hundred word reviews
Wanted: Reviewers
from their website:
The Strange Horizons reviews department is expanding.
In the recent past, we've been focusing on what our submission guidelines call standard and extended reviews: in depth pieces up to a couple of thousand words long. We still want those, so don't stop submitting them. But now we also want more short reviews.
This means pieces around 500 words long, on any speculative art or entertainment that grabs your interest. Books, films, tv shows (individual episodes as well as whole seasons), comics, manga, anime, poems, stories, computer games . . . everything. The catch is that we don't just want summary, we want perspective. We want reviewers who can, say, recognise the tv and literary antecedents of Battlestar Galactica's take on military sf. And we want to cover the works you might not think of as sf, or that have that ill-defined thing, "an sf sensibility"—so we want reviewers who are happy exploring the uncertain edges of genre.
The short takes won't pay—at least, not yet (although of course if you choose to join our reviewers' mailing list and work with us regularly, review copies of books are free). What we want to do is make Strange Horizons the place to go to for informed reviews of speculative fiction and media. A place that looks at the obvious things with a fresh eye, and that finds the less obvious works and gives them the attention they deserve.
You can say a lot in five hundred words, as long as they're the right five hundred words. So what do you want to say?
Niall Harrison
Senior Reviews Editor
reviews@strangehorizons.com
