The Harrow
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The Harrow was an online magazine for fantasy and horror
fiction, poetry, and reviews, launched in January 1998 by founder and editor-in-chief Dru Pagliassotti
. The magazine has an all-volunteer editorial staff and reviewer pool and uses a double blind review system that provides authors with individualized feedback on their submissions.
In 2008, The Harrow was published on the first of each month using Open Journal Systems
software. From 2009, The Harrow staff are taking a break and the journal is not in production at the moment.
Best Fiction Magazines/E-Zines poll every year since 2003.
Pieces first published in the magazine have received recognition in several other venues. First-place Harrow contest winner "Harming Obsession" by Bev Vincent
received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
(16th Ed.); "The Pickup", a short story by Jim Schutte was a 2005 nominee for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. M. Frost's poem, "Removing the Bloodstain", from the November 2006 issue was reprinted in the March 2007 newsletter from the Horror Writers Association.
Well-known authors published in The Harrow include Gemma Files
, Peter Crowther
and Marlys Pearson
. Editor Pagliassotti's fantasy novel, Clockwork Heart, was published by Juno Books in March 2008. Other authors published in The Harrow who also have novels or collections out include Brian Ames and Chris Howard.
and including stories by Poppy Z Brite, Owl Goingback
and Jack Ketchum
. In 2007, it followed up with Midnight Lullabies, published by The Harrow Press, with an introduction by Tim Wynne-Jones
.
Horror fiction magazine
A horror fiction magazine is a magazine that publishes primarily horror fiction with the main purpose of scaring or frightening the reader. Horror magazines can be in print, on the internet, or both.-Defunct magazines:*The Arkham Collector...
fiction, poetry, and reviews, launched in January 1998 by founder and editor-in-chief Dru Pagliassotti
Dru Pagliassotti
Dru Pagliassotti is an author of fantasy literature and the editor of The Harrow online magazine.Her first published novel was Clockwork Heart, a steampunk fantasy novel about an Icarus-winged heroine, Taya, who stumbles into a murder mystery when she rescues a high caste official of the layered...
. The magazine has an all-volunteer editorial staff and reviewer pool and uses a double blind review system that provides authors with individualized feedback on their submissions.
In 2008, The Harrow was published on the first of each month using Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems is an open-source software for the management of peer-reviewer academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, released under the GNU General Public License.-Design:...
software. From 2009, The Harrow staff are taking a break and the journal is not in production at the moment.
Awards and recognition
The Harrow has placed within the top 10 in the Preditors and EditorsPreditors and Editors
Preditors and Editors is a website started in 1997, managed by Dave Kuzminski. The site was designed to be a reference source for the writer, composer, and game designer...
Best Fiction Magazines/E-Zines poll every year since 2003.
Pieces first published in the magazine have received recognition in several other venues. First-place Harrow contest winner "Harming Obsession" by Bev Vincent
Bev Vincent
Bev Vincent is best known as the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated, authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award. He has been writing News From the Dead Zone for...
received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition includes a number of retrospective essays by the editors and others....
(16th Ed.); "The Pickup", a short story by Jim Schutte was a 2005 nominee for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. M. Frost's poem, "Removing the Bloodstain", from the November 2006 issue was reprinted in the March 2007 newsletter from the Horror Writers Association.
Well-known authors published in The Harrow include Gemma Files
Gemma Files
Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.- Biography :Gemma Files was born in...
, Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther
Peter Crowther is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books...
and Marlys Pearson
Marlys Pearson
Marlys Pearson , aka M.J. Pearson, is an American historical gay romance writer and Lambda Literary Award nominee for her novel The Price of Temptation. She is also a writer of short stories, some of which have been featured in online short story websites such as The Harrow, and was a winner of...
. Editor Pagliassotti's fantasy novel, Clockwork Heart, was published by Juno Books in March 2008. Other authors published in The Harrow who also have novels or collections out include Brian Ames and Chris Howard.
Anthologies
In 2006, The Harrow produced Fear of the Unknown, published by Echelon Press, with an introduction by Chelsea Quinn YarbroChelsea Quinn Yarbro
-Biography:She was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College .In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982...
and including stories by Poppy Z Brite, Owl Goingback
Owl Goingback
Owl Goingback is an American author of horror and children's books, a fiction ghostwriter, and a writer of non-fiction.-Works:Having served as a jet engine mechanic in the Air Force, and the former owner of a restaurant and lounge, Owl Goingback became a full time writer in 1987. He has written...
and Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
. In 2007, it followed up with Midnight Lullabies, published by The Harrow Press, with an introduction by Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones
Tim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...
.