Moonday Mag is home to speculative writing, including horror, fantasy, scifi, magical realism, anything that spawns from the “what if” of a creator’s mind. Publishing quarterly online and in print, Moonday Mag was started by Editor-in-Chief Caridad Cole who sought to “bridge a gap” she experienced when seeking to publish her own work. “Moonday Mag will give speculative writers a more traditional platform for their work, and in turn, give them the confidence to pursue even bigger goals. I wanted to create a magazine that I myself would strive to be published in, a place that publishes work that makes me think, Wow I wish I had written that!“
The name for Moonday Mag, Cole explains, “comes from an old teenagehood blog, which was named for a combination of Monday (the day of the week I was born, and the subject of my favorite nursery rhyme, “Monday’s Child”) and the moon (an obsession for as long as I can remember). The first poem I ever wrote was called “Starstruck by the Power of the Moon,” and I have no idea why. Maybe I’m from there.”