It seems to be the season for announcing the closure of independent fiction outlets. First Shadowed Realms, now Potato Monkey. Editor Ben Payne has decided to let Potato Monkey lie fallow “for the indefinite future.”

I love the magazine with all my heart, but there are now better magazines providing venues for new talent.

Potato Monkey never had the production values of Shadowed Realms, but then it never aspired to them. It did, however, publish its own thick slice of Australian speculative goodness by Deb Biancotti, Ben Peek, Cat Sparks, Brendan Duffy, and more. Sleep well, sweet monkey.