Cicada is published by Cricket Magazine Group, which began over thirty years ago with the publication of a magazine for children, Cricket. Cicada was launched in 1998.
"Cicada has great poems and excellent stories -- I often finish it and turn the last page again, wishing there were more. Recently they changed the format from a small, compact book-like magazine to a more traditional full-size magazine format. There are no advertisements, which is nice, but they also do a lot of classic short stories by well-known authors, like Stephen Crane and Victor Hugo, instead of modern authors, which I don't really like. The stories are generally well-written, about contemporary themes or sometimes more fantastical plots, but practically all of them have good substance to them and hold my interest."
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