Mithila
Review
An international journal of science fiction & fantasy. Sixteen issues of speculative writing from South Asia and beyond — fiction, poetry, essays, and conversations that reimagined who gets to tell the future.
The sixteen issues
From the inaugural 2016 volume to the Hopepunk finale — a run of journals devoted to speculative writing across borders.
Landmark reading
Stories and conversations that defined the journal — award winners, founding essays, and essential interviews.
By form
Fiction
Short stories and novellas from the speculative edges of the real.
88 worksPoetry
Poems of myth, migration, science, and the strange.
104 worksEssays & Articles
Criticism, reportage, and arguments about speculative literature.
51 worksInterviews
Conversations with the writers shaping world science fiction.
36 worksReviews
Books, film, and culture, read through a speculative lens.
25 worksNamed for the ancient region of Mithila, we set out to dismantle the Western centre of speculative literature.
Founded in late 2015 by Salik Shah, Mithila Review published sixteen canonical issues across six years — 304 works by 222 writers, poets, scholars, and translators. Its pages introduced Usman T. Malik’s British Fantasy Award-winning “Resurrection Points,” landmark conversations with Ken Liu and Cixin Liu, and definitive surveys of subcontinental science fiction.
The journal is now a permanent open-access archive. Every work is preserved in its original form, free to read, teach, and cite.