Maidencholy Magazine

Maidencholy Magazine is an alternative small press for niche speculative fiction without a home. We adopt stories that fall outside traditional genre expectations, which deserve a platform to find their lonely audience longing for something more.

We're looking for the bombastic, weird, and depressing tinged with cleverness, nuance, and hope.

Inspired by underground maidcore music, pulp comics, light novels, and manga, Maidencholy Magazine aims to provide its readers with a healthy dose of action and adventure while satisfying their gloomy hearts with nurturing connections between characters and their metamorphic arcs. 

We publish stories that'll invoke emotions you struggle to put into words yourself.

Our small press is the perfect home for those who indulge in world-building and crafting bizarre magic systems. We appreciate seeing mundane objects, elements, and concepts turned into extraordinary superpowers, myths, and tech that expand your unique universe.