Aurealis is an Australian speculative fiction magazine published by Chimaera Publications, and is Australia's longest running small-press science-fiction and fantasy magazine. The magazine is based in Melbourne.
Notable contributors have included Sean Williams, George Turner, Paul Haines, Kaaron Warren, Richard Harland, K. J. Bishop, Simon Brown, Stephen Dedman, Shane Dix, Hoa Pham, Maria Lewis, Lucy Sussex, Trent Jamieson, Kim Westwood, Adam Browne, Jack Heath and Geoffrey Maloney.
Staff at the magazine have included Michael Pryor, Trudi Canavan, Sara Creasy, Bill Congreve and Andrew J. McKiernan.
Shaun Tan did much of the early cover art and redesigned the look of the magazine.
Aurealis was launched in September 1990 to provide a market for speculative fiction writers, with a particular emphasis on raising the profile of Australian authors. In October 2011, the magazine became a monthly e-publication (published every month except January and December).
In 1995, the magazine instituted the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction.
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