Moonday Mag ⋆⁺₊
welcomes you into a world of make believe.
Moonday Mag is a quarterly, speculative art and literary magazine dedicated to celebrating all things fantastic and fantastically strange. Born in the place that rests between here and the uncanny valley, Moonday Mag wonders what else might be out there, beyond the veil. From sci-fi to fantasy to magical realism to the witching hour caught on camera in 35mm––Moonday Mag wants it all and welcomes all.
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The Moonday Masthead
Caridad Cole, editor-in-chief / art director
Caridad Cole is a speculative writer and filmmaker whose work often employs magical realism and ruralism, lookalikes and lonely girls, and gothicism and the grave. Her writing has appeared in BarBar, The Taborian, Vocivia Magazine, Coffin Bell, The Worlds Within, The Garden-Variety Grimoire Anthology (The Word’s Faire Press), and The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, Volume II: Writers of Color (EastOver Press), among others. She is also the 2018 recipient of three awards by Words for Charity for her short stories "Empty Houses" and "In a Town Called Albatross". Her mind is in the treetops, her body is in Los Angeles, and her soul is at the bottom of the sea. Pin her down at caridadcole.com or on Instagram @astrocari.
Some favorite books: The Secret History, The Cement Garden, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Piper Farmer, fiction editor / reader
Piper Farmer (she/her) is a writer and student living on the East Coast, most often on the coastline of North Carolina. She can be found wandering around library stacks looking for rare books, endlessly editing, or turning on the kettle for a cup of tea.
Some favorite books: The Buried Giant, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Earthlings
Coby Dominus, fiction reader
Coby Dominus studied creative writing at Bard College, and works primarily as a screenwriter. He lives in Los Angeles, but would like to stress that he is not from there, and is in fact, from New York. He can reached via his website cobydominus.com or email cobydominus@gmail.com.
Some favorite books: Blood Meridian, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Crying of Lot 49
Anne-Victoire Beugre, fiction reader
Anne-Victoire (she/her) is a high school senior hoping to major in English. When she’s not procrastinating, you can find her planning out new pieces, reading short stories, or fantasizing about buying new books.
Some favorite books: Giovanni's Room, The Sundial, Beloved
Adia Reynolds, fiction reader
Adia Reynolds (she/her) is an honors student at Fort Hays State University studying English with a writing concentration. She is twelve-times published across various magazines, but her real dream is to publish all the novels that sit in her head. She has served as an editor for Silvercoats Magazine, Petrichor Literary Magazine, Subtext Magazine, and Vial of Bones Zine. Adia also freelances as a fiction editor when the opportunity arises. She is founder of The Rejection Club, created to encourage writers to submit to magazines and eliminate that rejection sensitivity by celebrating the failures we make along the path to success. You can find writing tips and follow along with her creative process @cryptic.cryptid.writes on Instagram. Furor Scribendi!
Some favorite books: The River Has Teeth, Mistborn, Wake the Bones
Emily Griffiths, fiction reader
Emily Griffiths is an English and Media student studying at the University of Sydney. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and writer with a preference for classic literature.
Some favorite books: Franny and Zooey, The Secret History, Giovanni’s Room
Sadia, fiction reader
Sadia is a full-time English Language & Literature student, aspiring to become an author and/or teacher someday. She’s also a fantastic procrastinator, biology fanatic, amateur photographer, and cat lover! Her favourite genres include mystery/thriller, post-colonial literature and fantasy, with a dash of sci-fi & romance.
Some favorite books: Mornings in Jenin, Wuthering Heights, And Then There Were None
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