Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Seventy! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on May 5, 2026. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on May 5 and half on June 2.
Featuring all-new short fiction by Eugenia Triantafyllou, AnaMaria Curtis, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Hannah Yang, Angela Liu, Lavie Tidhar, and R. S. A. Garcia; essays by Una McCormack, Alex Bledsoe, Alex Jennings, and Nilah Magruder; poetry by Fran Wilde, Prosper Ìféányí, Ceridwen Hall, and S. R. Ekstein; interviews with AnaMaria Curtis and Angela Liu by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Julie Dillon’s Ocean Swell as the cover.
All that plus two podcasts!
Episode 70A (May 5): Editor’s Introduction; “The Snatchers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou, as read by Matt Peters; “A Mermaid Looks at 40” by Fran Wilde, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Eugenia Triantafyllou.
Episode 70B (June 2): Editor’s Introduction; “Immigrant Girl from the End of the World” by Hannah Yang, as read by Erika Ensign; “Quorum” by Ceridwen Hall, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Hannah Yang.
About Our Cover Artist: Julie Dillon
Julie Dillon is a Hugo Award-winning artist living in California. She has had a life-long love of fantasy and sci-fi art and literature, and is excited to be making her own contribution to the field. Over the years, she has worked on book covers, magazine illustrations, gaming illustrations, and a variety of other commissions, and she is currently working on branching out into creating more of her own work. Her website is juliedillonart.com, and you can follow her on Twitter.