Strange Horizons is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new podcast series titled SH@25.

SH@25 is a series of interviews with authors, artists, poets, and former staff of Strange Horizons, charting the magazine’s 25-year trajectory from its founding in September 2000 to winning a Hugo in August 2024, as well as looking ahead at its future.

It is helmed by Kat Kourbeti and Michael Ireland, the lead podcast staff on the Strange Horizons team, and was conceived during the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon, just days before the magazine won a Hugo Award in the Best Semiprozine category. Spanning the whole of Strange Horizons’ 25th year, from September 2024 to September 2025, it is a study in how the magazine has impacted speculative fiction through the eyes of the contributors who made it what it is.

“At Strange Horizons, what we’re proudest of is our geographic diversity, how often we’ve been a writer’s ‘first sale’, and our non-hierarchical, anarchic structure,” says Gautam Bhatia, Managing Editor of Strange Horizons. “SH@25 will give our readers some insight into each of these elements that make us what we are.”

SH@25 can be found in the main Strange Horizons podcast feed, linked here for all podcast players. 

Listeners can engage with the podcast on Spotify by leaving comments and responding to polls, and there will be a video and audio voicemail function as well linked on the website, where listeners can leave happy birthday messages throughout the year. For the hard of hearing and everyone’s perusal, there will be full transcripts on each episode post.

The first episode where Kat and Michael announce the project is available now.