Table of Contents, November 2026

A new crop of stories for the month

November is upon us: the days are growing shorter and it's time for a new batch of short stories. You can check out last month's (newly updated!) installment here, and the prior installments here.

In case you missed it, I recently did a deeper dive into the history of Clarkesworld Magazine:

Here are the short stories coming out this month:

Amazing Stories (November 2026)

Fiction

"Charlie and the Theory of Everything" by Deborah Sale-Butler

Apex Magazine (November 2026, Issue 155)

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Fiction

"One Two Three" by Hannya Kay
"The Zen of Godzilla" by Ed Grabianowski

Nonfiction

Musings from Maryland by Lesley Connor
Interview with Author Rachel Alm by Marissa van Uden

Analog Science Fact and Fiction (November 2026, Vol. XCVI No. 9 & 10)

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Fiction

"Murder" by Nick Wolven
"Derailed" by Hûw Steer
"Hundred-handed" by John Markley
"Elder" by James Dick
"Xmas In Derbtown" by M.T. Reiten
"Built To Last" by Clancy Weeks
"A Grove Of Binding" by Tom R. Pike
"When It Came Time To Disband The Dragon Corps" by Eric Del Carlo
"Orders Of Magnitude" by Jerry Oltion
"The Day Before" by Shane Tourtellotte
"Blue Dot And The Unmoving Red Oval" by Jeff Dasteel
"A Question Of Focus" by Craig Kenworthy
"Do Not Ship" by Ted Kosmatka
"A Eulogy For Pandora" by Donald Raymond
"Jumal’s Drift" by Hayden Trenholm
"Father Of The Year" by Brandon Keaton
"What’s A Douglas Fir?" by James Van Pelt

Nonfiction

Wormholes, Warp Drives, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,
And Congress by Tony Rothman
Beyond The Sonic Screwdriver, Part I by Richard A. Lovett
Editorial: Rewriting The Inevitable by David Ebenbach
In Times To Come
Alternate View by John G. Cramer
Unknowns: Dave’s Final Message by Alec Nevala-lee
The Reference Library by Rosemary Claire Smith

Asimov's Science Fiction (November/December 2026)

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Fiction

"Cicada" by Will McIntosh & Matt Mikalatos
"How to Write a Suicide Note" by Leah Cypress
"Remnant" by William Preston
"Nothing I Like to do Pays Well" by Peter Wood
“…Even Kings” by John Richard Tre
"Sort" by Alice Towey
"A Soul Unearthed" by Gregory Marlow
"The Water Gods’ Treasure" by Anya Ow
"Rocket Jock" by Nick Wolven
"Night Beach" by Mercurio D.Rivera

Poetry

"Recovery" by Larina Warnock
"Moon Over the Wasteland" by Kristian Macaron
"Body as Archive" by Sheree Renée Thomas
"NASCAD Needs Your Help on Giving Tuesday" by Timons Esaias
"Betelgeuse" by Michael Meyerhofer
"Every Atom of Your Flesh is as Dear" by Marisca Pichette

Nonfiction

Editorial: Approaching a Milestone by Emily Hockaday
Reflections: The Pleasure of Calculus by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: 2 + 2 =5 by James Patrick Kelly
On Books by Peter Heck

Aurealis (November 2026, Issue 196)

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Fiction

"1up" by Scott Steensma
"We of the Zom" by Greg Foyster
"Alacrity (For Glenda)" by Stephen Higgins

Nonfiction

The Subtle Magic Realism of Barbara Comyns by Lynne Lumsden Green
Is Ozploitation Dead? by Lachlan Walter
Sinners: Why the True Horror is not the Vampires by Louise Zedda-Sampson.

Clarkesworld Magazine (November 2026, Issue 242)

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Fiction

"Twenty-Two Steps to Become Us" by Hannah Yang
"The Meat Market" by Isabel J. Kim
"The Exchange Service" by R.T. Ester
"Trimmed From The Night" by Raahem Alvi
"Black Ice Burning" by Rati Mehrotra
"Then Is the Ghosts' High Noon" by Eric Del Carlo
"Twenty-Nine Days Before Remaking the World" by Mimi Mondal

Nonfiction

Building a Better World Through Participatory Science by W. L. Bolm
The Future Folding Into the Past: A Conversation with Xueting C. Ni by Arley Sorg
Thirty-Five Years and Into the Future: Diane L. Walton, Edward Willett, and the Legacy of On Spec Magazine by Arley Sorg
Editor's Desk: Tonight the Stars Are Shining Bright by Neil Clarke

Cosmic Horror Monthly (November 2026)

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Fiction

"Golden Dawn Foundation: Never Tempt Fate When It Comes To Your Teeth" by K. A. Sweitzer

The Dark (November 2026, Issue 138)

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Fiction

"Last Season" by R.L. Summerling
"The Grinning Woman" by Michael Kelly
"Jimmy James Jim" by Sam J. Miller
"A Procession of Brides" by Carina Bissett

Diabolical Plots (November 2026)

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Fiction

“Five Accounts of the Story-Woman" by Diana Dima

Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction (Fall 2026, Issue 40)

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Fiction

“Squirrels on Palm Trees” by Melissa A Watkins
“A Crude Awakening” by Victor Pope
“In The Father’s Footsteps” by Brienne Guirantes
“The Call of John Crows” by Nadine Tomlinson
“Saint Yaa Academy Walks at Night” by Aishatu Ado
“Deus Ex Fabulae (And Both Feet in the Door)” by LA Knight

Poetry

The Department of Beautiful Failures” by GLORIA OGO
“Enter: Heads” by Chiwenite Onyekwelu

Flash Fiction Online (November 2026, Issue 158)

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Fiction

"The Wolf Who Swallowed a Star" by Em Harriett
"Egg Song" by Mandy Lange
"Osedax" by H.V. Patterson
"What the Bone’s Edge Sings" by H. Marin
"Conversations with the Dead Deer My Brother Has Strung Up in the Garden" by Janel Comeau
"Afternoon Tea Over Innsmouth" by Lena Ng

Nonfiction

Editorial: Quietly Surviving Another Day by Rebecca Halsey

Forever Magazine (November 2026, 142)

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Fiction

“Barbarians” by Rich Larson
“I Am Not the One Who Gets Left Behind” by Eric Smith
“The Last Cathedral on Earth” by Tobias S. Buckell

GigaNotoSaurus (November 2026)

Fiction

"The Books / The Sisters / The Books" by D. Matthew Urban

Lightspeed Magazine (November 2026, Issue 198)

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Fiction

"Selected Case Notes from the Judicial Oversight Council of the Gatarn Empire" by Ian Li
"The Oracle at Ikeja" by Tobi Ogundiran
"Repentance in Blue" by Phoenix Alexander
"The Tongue That Makes the Mountain Sing" by Nibedita Sen
"A Map to Sideways Places" by Jenn Reese
"Choke, Writhe Perish: A Recipe for Forging a Virgin Sacrifice to Feed the Dragon" by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
"On the Thermodynamics of a Perfect Cup" by Georgina Kamsika
"The Means" by Christopher Rowe

Nonfiction

Editorial: November 2026 by John Joseph Adams
Author Spotlight: Tobi Ogundiran by Robin Jeffrey
Author Spotlight: Phoenix Alexander by Delia Cullity
Author Spotlight: Nibedita Sen by Phoebe Barton
Book Review: Chimera Skin by Johnny Compton by Melissa A Watkins
Author Spotlight: Jenn Reese by A Humphrey Lanham
Book Review: It Looks like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller by Arley Sorg
Author Spotlight: Georgina Kamsika by Phoebe Barton
Author Spotlight: Christopher Rowe by Phoebe Barton
Book Review: The Years of Apocalypse: A Progression Fantasy Epic (Book 1) by Uranium Phoenix by Chris Kluwe

Nature Futures (November 2026)

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Fiction

"The oracle of the second quadrant" by Chao Liu

Nightmare Magazine (November 2026, Issue 170)

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Fiction

"Horse Girls" by Lyndsie Manusos
Pricks" by Laura Garrison
The Warehouse of Exiled Things" by Shiwei Zhou
"what wears the flesh" by Rukman Ragas

Nonfiction

Editorial: November 2026 by Wendy N. Wagner
Author Spotlight: Lyndsie Manusos by Devin Marcus
The H Word: Everything Old Is New Again by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Author Spotlight: Shiwei Zhou by Clay Vermulm
Plumbing the Depths: Against the New Weird by Zachary Gillan

Reactor (November 2026)

Fiction

"The Best of all Possible Solar Systems" by Dominica Phetteplace

Small Wonders Magazine (November 2026, Issue 41)

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Fiction

"The Last Missus" by J.A. Bryson
"The Pyre" by P. Anthony Ramanauskas

Solarpunk Magazine (November/December 2026, Issue 30)

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Fiction

“The Unrooted Sea” by Seiba Rosario
“Bottles, Bones, Skein” by Marisca Pichette
“A Sweetness On The Breeze” by John Leahy
“Blood of the Town, Veins of the Earth” by Katharine Tyndall

Poetry

“Beneath the Absorbent City” by Joy Donnell
“Bombarding Bloom of Another Disintegration” by CP Nwankwo
“I Carry My Hauntings Into a Stranger’s House” by Sarah Titus
“The Kingdom of Rot Is Within You” by Josh Pearce

Nonfiction

“The Monsters Have Entered the Garden” by Justine Norton-Kertson
“The Ordinary Was Extraordinary All Along: A reflection on loss, appreciation, and radical hope from Gaza” by Aya Al-Hattab

Strange Horizons (November 2026)

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Reviews

Monday: Horde of the Counterwind by Alain Damasio, translated by Alexander Dickow by Rachel Cordasco
Wednesday: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar by Kyle R. Garton
Friday: Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliot Family edited by Miranda Corcoran & Steve Ellerhoff by Thomas E. Simmons

The Sunday Morning Transport (November 2026)

Fiction

"The Lacemakers of Szentkatarina" by Theodora Goss

Uncanny Magazine (November / December 2026, Issue 73)

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Fiction

"WAG Queen Bella Batista Looks Better than Ever at Super Bowl CLX" by Juliet Kahn
"Time Is What Stops Everything" by Kristiana Willsey
"The Godless" by Lavie Tidhar

Poetry

"The Big Bad" by Brit Graham
"Fallen Feathers" by Mari Ness

Nonfiction

"The Uncanny Valley" by Michael Damian Thomas
"So Wrong It’s Right" by Yoon Ha Lee
"Gender Is a Constructicon: Transformers as an Allegory of Queer Liberation" by Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne

That's it for now: check back later in the month for an updated list.