Aurealis is Australia's most successful SF/fantasy magazine. Our aim when we released our first issue in September 1990 was to produce something that had never been produced before in Australia: a professional mass market SF/fantasy magazine. We've been doing that ever since. Before Aurealis there were hundreds of thousands of avid SF/fantasy readers in Australia, but the amount of Australian SF they were reading was miniscule. Now most of the major publishers in Australia have a local SF/fantasy list. Aurealis has provided a steady, reliable market for established writers, has launched dozens of new writers who are now becoming established, and in 1995 instituted the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction.

While our emphasis has been to increase the profile of Australian SF, we have always recognised the global nature of SF. Aurealis Online will take this recognition further, and with this website we hope to bring Australian science fiction and fantasy into the global SF community.

Aurealis is available through BBR Distribution in the UK, and through direct subscription worldwide.

We are open to unsolicited submissions or email. Please read our Submission Guidelines plus some back issues before you submit your work.

Editor - Stuart Mayne

Stuart Mayne is a book and magazine editor who has worked as an editor, ecommerce manager, production manager in a number of publishing houses and as a freelance editor for 18 years. He has worked for Design Editorial, ETT Imprint, Macmillan Education and in a number of professional organisations.

Stuart is also an expert on Australian crime fiction author Arthur Upfield, editing Upfield's last published novel, The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery, which was published in Australia and France.

Art Director - Andrew J McKiernan

Andrew J McKiernan is an Australian speculative fiction writer and illustrator living and working on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

Andrew\ is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association. He is also a founding editor of HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, an online news and reviews webzine and a staff writer for A Writer Goes on a Journey.

Andrew\'s writing and illustration work have received shortlisting nominations for two Ditmar Awards (Best Artist and Best Fan Artist 2009), an Aurealis Award (2009 Horror Short Story) and an Australian Shadows Award (2009 Short Fiction). For a full biography and bibliography see: www.andrewmckiernan.com