Helix SF
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Helix SF is a quarterly American speculative fiction online magazine edited by William Sanders and Lawrence Watt-Evans. The poetry editor is Bud Webster.
Sanders began the magazine as "a place where writers could publish things that none of the regular markets wanted to touch" without any attempt "to be a commercial publication." The venture is supported entirely by reader donations, though Sanders emphasizes in his first editorial that the intention is to make Helix SF "a professional-quality online magazine." The magazine is not open to general submissions.
Since its first issue appeared on the web in July of 2006, each issue of Helix SF has featured 7 stories, 4 to 6 poems, several regular columns, and editorials by both the editors. The magazine has been nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine, the short story "Captive Girl" by Jennifer Pelland, published in the Fall 2006 issue, was nominated for the 2007 Nebula Award, and the poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole" by Lawrence Schimel, published in the Winter 2007 issue, took the 3rd place Rhysling Award in the short poem category for 2007.
Other authors published include Mike Allen, Bruce Boston, Adam-Troy Castro, Melanie Fletcher, Esther Friesner, Janis Ian, Jay Lake, Vera Nazarian, Michael H. Payne, Peg Robinson, and Jane Yolen.
