The Pink Hydra 1.1 - July 2024

Our first-ever issue combines romance and resilience, contemplation and high adventure, bringing you the magic of fairytales in conjunction with the stuff of nightmares.

Visit a fairytale version of Old Russia, navigate the depths of wild space with a far-future crew, experience the awe and wonder of dragons, explore the liminal depths of horror and romance, and more!

Veteran sci-fi novelist Gustavo Bondoni, Pushcart-nominated Allister Nelson, Indian poetess Purbasha Roy, award-winning screenwriter Dana Hammer, and horror writer Harold Hoss are just a few of the names we are proud to feature in this July issue.

We’ve prepared an issue chock-full of fantasy, romance, horror, and wonder. We’ve got at least three separate stories featuring sci-fi’s most beloved and useful appendage, the tentacle. We’ve got mythical witches, fantastical monsters, deadly machines, and an array of strange alien species. We’ve got villains and heroes and badasses and wimps. We’re featuring woman writers, queer and nonbinary writers, writers with diverse backgrounds from six different continents (sadly, no-one sent us submissions from Antarctica). This is The Pink Hydra, a proudly international genre/lit magazine, publishing tales of unreality from today onwards.