The Deadlands – Issue 30

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The Deadlands is a magazine that publishes short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. 

Here’s what you can look forward to in the October 2023 issue (#30) of The Deadlands:


  • Bathsheba’s Corsage, Elena Sichrovsky (poetry)
  • In the Forest of Talking Animals, Makena Onjerika (fiction)
  • Kagewani, Betsy Aoki (poetry)
  • Lifting the Veil Between the Living and the Dead: DÌa de los Muertos in Oaxaca, N.K. van Riemsdijk (nonfic)
  • All The Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10, Isabel Cańas (fiction)
  • Ask a Necromancer: One From the Valuts, Amanda Downum (nonfic)
  • Sisyphus, Mid-Flight, Leah Bobet (poetry)

The Deadlands: Year One collects short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from our first year, including authors such as

  • Vajra Chandrasekera
  • Arkady Martine
  • Fran Wilde
  • Shweta Narayan
  • Isabel Cañas
  • C.S.E. Cooney
  • Marissa Lingen
  • Maria Haskins
  • Alix E. Harrow
  • Natalia Theodoridou
  • Premee Mohamed
  • R.B. Lemberg
  • Leah Bobet
  • Suzan Palumbo

  • Loren Rhoads
  • Richard Butner
  • G.V Anderson
  • and more!

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