BY GARY DALKIN
Voices is a new UK-based quarterly magazine launching in mid- December from the recently launched Ice Pick Books Ltd. The editors promise the very best in speculative fiction from around the world. Its mission is to promote the work of writers from traditionally marginalised backgrounds, including but not limited to, female writers, writers of colour, disabled writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers from minority religious groups, and foreign writers having their work translated into English. Fiction submissions will only be considered from writers who fall into one or more such categories. However, essays, articles, reviews and interviews will be considered from anyone.
Each issue will contain over 80,000 words of new fiction, with the launch issue featuring work by Brandon Cracraft, Die Booth, Hal Bodner, Linda Angel and Anthony Cowin, plus other stories received during the submission period, which runs throughout October. Further submission periods will be the months of January, April and July, with subs received outside those periods deleted unread.