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Aurealis is an Australian science fiction magazine started in September 1990 by Chimaera Publications to be the country’s first “professional mass market science fiction and fantasy magazine”.
The content of the magazine is sourced largely from unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction that follow various submission guidelines. The magazine also requests that submissions follow a house style for spelling and grammar.
As well as providing a medium for science fiction writers and artists to publish their work, the magazine instituted the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction in 1995, which are now much larger than the magazine itself. Dirk Strasser puts this down to the magazine’s “unique structure”, something he claims “was unlike the overseas models and was tailored to the speculative fiction scene in Australia”.
The publishers claim that they “have always recognised the global nature of science fiction” and international subscribers make up a fair portion of the magazine’s readers. The magazine offers four issue subscriptions for Australia, New Zealand and other countries, and an 8 issue subscription within Australia. It is also available in the USA through Barnes and Noble and various specialist bookstores, through Cold Drake Books in Canada and through British bookstore chain BBR.
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