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The Feds

Total Issues: 15

The Feds was Street & Smith's attempt to cash in on the fad for G-Men stories inspired by the Jimmy Cagney movie Public Enemy. It was never very successful and folded after a mere fifteen issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul/Sep-1936 – Dec-1937: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   John L. Nanovic
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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The Female Spectator

Issues & Index Sources:  1744 – 1746
Editors:   Eliza Haywood
Sources:   BritLit1

FemSpec

"An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in the realms of sf, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres." Mostly a critical magazine, but it did publish fiction regularly.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1999 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Website:   www.femspec.org
Editors:   Batya Weinbaum
Formats:   8.5" x 11" perfect bound
Prices:   $15
Pagecounts:   120pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

Fence

Total Issues: 10 (to Dec-2002)

Primarily poetry but also promotes fiction with five or six stories per issue. Encourages original and diverse treatment.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring/Summer 1998 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Fence Magazine, 14 Fifth Avenue, 1A, New York, NY 10011 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   fence.fenceportal.org
Editors:   Rebecca Wolff (in 2000 - 2002); Fiction editor is Jonathan Lethem
Email Address:   rwolff@angel.net
Formats:   square digest (9" x 7")
Frequency:   twice yearly (April and October)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)
 

Festival Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1951
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Fiction [1867]

Ran "tales and romances."

Issues & Index Sources:  1867
Publishers:   John Dicks, London
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

Fiction [1903]

Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources:  4-Feb-1903 – 13-May-1903: Fictionmags Website (Missing: 18-Feb-1903)
Publishers:   J.H. Buxton, Junior, & Co., 54 Fleet Street, London
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   weekly

Fiction [1972]

Academic literary magazine which has published work by Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Jerome Charyn, Albert Guerard, John Hawkes, Alice Hoffman, Joseph McElroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Ronald Sukenick, etc. Looks for innovation and the unusual. Circulation 3,000: 1972-1996, available online at website.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1972 – present
Publishers:   English Dept., The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.fictioninc.com (or www.ccny.cuny.edu/fiction/fiction.htm)
Editors:   Mark Jay Mirsky (in 2000 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   200pp
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Fiction: A Magazine of Storytelling

Total Issues: 9

The magazine was published irregularly, but was always filled with topnotch fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It was the "elder sister" to Galileo.

Issues & Index Sources:  197? – 1976
Publishers:   Avenue Victor Hugo Publishers, Boston
Editors:   Vincent McCaffrey
Formats:   A4
Prices:   $1.00 (last issue $1.50)
Pagecounts:   72pp
Frequency:   irregular

Fiction [1988]

see also under The Fiction Magazine

Fiction Magazine [2007]

Total Issues: 2

Small press SF magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  2007: Fictionmags Website

Fiction and Fashion

Featured a short novel and assorted fashion items in each issue, along with book reviews and other miscellanea.

Issues & Index Sources:  27-Sep-1890 – 1891?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Fiction Publishing Co. Ltd., 6 Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   weekly

Fiction Feast

Companion fiction magazine to Take a Break, a weekly magazine of true-life stories, given as Take a Break's Fiction Feast on the cover.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1998? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   H. Bauer Publishing
Website:   www.bauer.co.uk/our-magazines/fiction-feast
Editors:   John Dale
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   monthly

Fiction Furnace

Small press fiction magazine containing some sf and fantasy.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1993: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Hyperbook Publishing Company, 17 Ankermoor Close, Shard End, BRIMINGHAM, B34 6TF.
Editors:   John Williams
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £1.75
Pagecounts:   43pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Fiction International

Goes for controversial themes and treatment, with wide international coverage. It has published works by William Burroughs, Robert Coover, Edmund White, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Abish, Kathy Acker, Alberto Moravia, Pierre Guyotat, George Perec, Michel Serres, Claribel Alegria, Tadeus Konwicki, J.M. Coetzee, Bessie Head, Roque Dalton, Luisa Valenzuela, Einar Schleef, Lya Luft, Mridula Garg, Kanuko Okamuto, Michael Morrisey.

Issues & Index Sources

  Fall 1973 – present

Publishers

  Dept. of English & Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 (since 1983)

Website

  www.fictioninternational.com

Editors

  1973 – ?: Joe David Bellamy
  1983 – 1992: Harold Jaffe & Larry McCaffery
  1992 – present: Henry Jaffe

Formats

  review

Frequency

  irregularly, one or two yearly

Sources

  OHenAwdWeb (not 2001 or 2002)

The Fiction Magazine [1943]

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1943 – Apr-1943
Publishers:   Ideal Publishing
Formats:   bedsheet
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Fiction Magazine [1982]

General literary fiction magazine; published special sf issue Jul/Aug-1987; retitled Fiction from Apr-1988

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1982 – Aug-1988?: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Keith Young, London
Editors:   Judy Cooke; Chris Maillard from Apr-1988
Formats:   quarto for last five issues
Frequency:   quarterly; monthly from Apr-1988


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