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January 27, 2023

2022 Award Eligibility Post

2022 had GigaNotoSaurus hitting our stride with our first Nebula-nominated story under my editorship: Just Enough Rain by P. H. Lee, published in May 2021. We had 745 stories submitted to us last year. Here are the stories we published that are eligible for awards in 2022: GigaNotoSaurus is also eligible for awards under the […]

December 16, 2022

Special Announcement from the Editor

by LaShawn M. Wanak, Editor

Hello Friends, I have some special news to share with you all. I’ll share the stories that are eligible for awards in 2023 along with our 2022 stats for this year in a follow-up post. GigaNotoSaurus was initially founded by Ann Leckie in November 2011. Her run of the magazine included wonderful stories such […]

May 14, 2021

Closing Submissions for the month of June 2021

We will be closed to submissions for the month of June to give us a chance to get caught up. We will reopen again on July 1. Questions or queries can be sent to editor@giganotosaurus.org.

January 26, 2021

Submissions on Pause as GigaNotoSaurus Move to a New Submission System

GigaNotoSaurus is temporarily pausing submissions today to move to a new submissions system. We’ll reopen when we’ve fully moved to the new system in the next couple of weeks. We will be processing the current subs in the old system. The new system will be a lot better with communication and more accomodating to our […]

August 5, 2019

Hello From Your New editor and Closing Submissions

Hello everyone! My name is LaShawn M. Wanak, and I would like to introduce myself as the new editor of GigaNotoSaurus. For those who don’t know me, I review books for Lightspeed. I served as an associate editor of PodCastle from 2013 through 2015. I also write science fiction and fantasy stories, which you can find links […]

December 6, 2018

Please Welcome Our New Editor, Elora Gatts

For six years, opening the GigaNotoSaurus submissions inbox and beginning the hunt for the next gem has been a highlight of my week. But it’s time to start a new adventure, and let’s start it with Daisy Slots today! I’m so grateful to Ann Leckie for the opportunity to take the helm. It’s impossible to […]

January 29, 2018

Giganotosaurus 2017 Award Eligibility

It’s incredible to me that Giganotosaurus turned seven this year and that 2017 marks my third full year as editor. From its earliest days, Giganotosaurus has existed with a single goal: publish one “longish” (longer than a short story, shorter than a novel) work of speculative fiction a month. I’m incredibly proud of the 12 stories that met our […]

January 12, 2016

2015 Year In Review: What We Published

Editor’s Note: Editors are capricious creatures, and since we’re not all operating out of the same playbook (or any playbook at all for that matter) by nature our job is a subjective one. My goal in choosing stories for Giganotosaurus is in line with our stated value of diversity in storytelling in its myriad forms. I […]

October 23, 2013

Please Welcome Our New Editor, Rashida J Smith

GigaNotoSaurus has been a labor of love from the beginning. I’m very proud of the fiction I’ve published since its start in 2010. And I’ve had a lot of fun editing–I can tell you from experience that when editors say they get a happy thrill out of discovering a gem in the slush, they really, […]

July 21, 2013

Martyr’s Gem Video–The Epic of Shursta Sharkbait

If you enjoyed “Martyr’s Gem” by C.S.E. Cooney, which ran in May, you might want to check out this fabulous video excerpt, “The Epic of Shursta Sharkbait.”