Origins
Why HEXFILED?
HEXFILED started because the boxes did not fit. You cannot fit a hexagon into a square. It sits uncomfortably between shapes. Rougher around the edges than a circle. Less rigid than a square. Even given the same perimeter, a hexagon holds less area than one and more than the other. It occupies an unstable middle ground, never fully realized on either side. When a story straddles this liminal in-between, it risks invisibility. This is what we collect. This is what we file away.
The name comes from two ideas in collision: the hexagon, a shape found in beehives and carbon molecules, in circuit boards and basalt columns; and filing, the act of storing, indexing, and making permanent. We aim to publish stories that sit in the liminal space of genres.
HEXFILED launched in 2026 as an independent magazine dedicated to science fiction and speculative fiction, exploring the bridge rather than the divide between organism and machine, the literary and the philosophical.
Purpose
Our Mission
We believe speculative fiction is the most honest form of contemporary realism. The fiction we gravitate towards is where the speculative element shapes the story’s infrastructure and gives voice to the characters born within its boundaries, where it forms the skeleton of the premise and lets each entity within develop a selfhood we can feel. We are committed to publishing work by writers from the full range of the global SF community. HEXFILED is currently a non-paying market. It’s new, independent, and run by one editor. The goal is to grow into a paying market, and that will be announced clearly when it happens.
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