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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 137 by Neil Clarke Category: clarkesworld magazine Page 1 of 35. Strictly by the numbers, here’s a quick snapshot of Clarkesworld ’s 2020 output. 12 issues 69 authors 36 authors had never been published in Clarkesworld before 8 (possibly 10) had never been published before, 2 others were first professional sales 44 short stories 30 novelettes 2 novellas. On seeing that we crossed the half-million words mark in 2020, I thought I should see how many words were submitted. Turns out that the 2020 slush pile contained 63,752,717 words. Slush Reader Application 2021. If you are interested in being a slush reader for Clarkesworld Magazine , I highly recommend that you fill out our application. When a vacancy opens, we consider/reconsider every application turned in during the last year before soliciting new applications on social media. Quite often these positions are filled from existing applications. A few notes: This is an unpaid volunteer position. Slush readers & other staff are prohibited from submitting stories or articles to the magazine. You should have time to read an average of five stories a day. (You can stop reading a story when it’s clear it won’t work for us.) Priority is given to writers and those considering becoming editors. A version of this post is reblogged every year or so with minor changes. International Submissions – Long View, part two. In the middle of 2020, I posted some data about the history of international submissions at Clarkesworld . Now, with 2020 behind us, I decided I to fill in the rest of the year’s data and see if anything changed. Before I go any further, I’m often asked why I care about this subject. Quite simply, I believe that to get the best stories, you have to cast a wide net. Since science fiction is global, I think the net should be too. No country, region, or language has a monopoly on great science fiction. Unfortunately, the history of the field works against my goal. For various reasons–which could be a post in itself–a large percentage of writers around the world don’t feel welcome. I’ve said it before, the number one question I’m asked by authors from other parts of the world is whether or not they are allowed to send me a story. Sure, I can reach the ones that ask, but the others take more work. These posts, and the data behind them, help me track the holes in the net and any monitor any progress (or lack of) made over the years. These efforts do not determine or shape what we will accept. They influence what we can accept. They create opportunities for us to discover something we might have otherwise missed out on. On principle, we do not solicit stories. Every story in the slush pile is given the same opportunity. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you’ve accomplished previously, or where you are from. Let’s start with the first graph: Even with a half-year of extra data, we didn’t see much more than a 0.5 variation in the data from mid-year to full-year. The trends observed in the first half of the year held. This was a pleasant surprise. On a monthly level, 2020 didn’t follow any of the regular patterns. It was clear that the pandemic was having an impact, but in the aggregate, the ups and downs balanced out. As the year closed, we inched (by seven stories) past our previous annual record for total submissions. While it’s been fairly typical for our submissions volume to increase from year-to-year, we did experience a significant decrease when we stopped considering horror stories. That gap has now been filled and we are back to averaging 1100 submissions per month. The orange line in the above graph represents submissions from the US. As we’ve managed to encourage submissions other countries that percentage has steadily dropped, often around a percent each year. In 2020, however, we saw a change that was nearly double that of the largest shift we’ve experienced in the past. Percentages don’t tell the whole story though. Submissions from the US grew by several hundred in 2020. Looking at these numbers, it helps to keep in mind that the US only represents around 4.25% of the global population. It’s easier to read the graph when you pull the US out. Due to their weight, the UK, Canada, Australia, and India have been broken out and their own lines. It’s worth noting that India and Australia are now running within 15 stories of one another. Trends for both suggest that India will pass Australia soon. “Other” is not my favorite way of representing things, but it helps demonstrate how significant the remaining countries are in aggregate. The top ten in “other” are Nigeria, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Philippines, and Italy. Of those, Nigeria has shown the most significant growth in recent years and has started moving away from the pack. At their current rate, they’ll be broken out from “other” next year. Side note: There are some interesting country-level trends involving the genres we’re receiving. I’ve done some preliminary work on this and hope to find the time to complete it. As our publication stats would indicate, we do publish some genres more than others, so understanding these trends could be quite helpful. This was the only chart with a significant change over mid-year. I would have been surprised if we didn’t see an increase, but to have surpass 2019’s high is a pleasant surprise and another positive metric for the year. About. Neil Clarke (neil-clarke.com) is the editor of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form) nine times, won the Chesley Award for Best Art Director three times, and received the Solstice Award from SFWA in 2019. He currently lives in NJ with his wife and two sons. Biography. Neil Clarke is best known as the editor and publisher of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine . Launched in October 2006, the online magazine has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine four times (winning three times), the World Fantasy Award four times (winning once), and the British Fantasy Award once (winning once). Neil is also an nine-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor-Short Form, three-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and recipient of the 2019 Solstice Award from SFWA. In the thirteen years since Clarkesworld Magazine launched, numerous stories that he has published have been nominated for or won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, BSFA, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, and Stoker Awards. In 2012, Neil suffered a near-fatal heart attack while attending Readercon in Burlington, MA. The damage sustained in this incident later required that he undergo surgery for the implantation of a defibrillator. These events inspired both Upgraded , his 2014 cyborg anthology and his 2017 jump from his day job in academia (technology) to become a full-time editor. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. Editing Work. Magazines. Clarkesworld Magazine (Editor/Publisher), 2006 – Forever Magazine (Editor/Publisher) , 2015 – Internazionale (Guest Editor, Storie Issue), Issue 1338, December 2019 The SFWA Bulletin (Editor), 2016-2019 Berlin Quarterly (Guest Fiction Editor), Issue 4, 2016. Anthologies. Clarkesworld: Year Three , (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013 Clarkesworld: Year Four , (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013 Clarkesworld: Year Five , (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2013 Clarkesworld: Year Six , (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2014 Upgraded , Wyrm Publishing, September 2014 Clarkesworld: Year Seven , (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2015 Clarkesworld: Year Eight, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, February 2016 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One , Night Shade Books, June 2016 Galactic Empires , Night Shade Books, January 2017 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Two, Night Shade Books, 2017 More Human Than Human , Night Shade Books, 2017 Touchable Unreality , China Machine Press, 2017 (Published in China.) The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three, Night Shade Books, 2018 The Final Frontier , Night Shade Books, 2018 Not One of Us , Night Shade Books, 2018 Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2018 Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2018 The Best of Clarkesworld , (with Sean Wallace), Prime Books, 2019 The Eagle has Landed, Night Shade Books, 2019 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Four, Night Shade Books, 2019 Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019 Clarkesworld: Year Ten, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019 Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume 1, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019 Clarkesworld: Year Eleven, Volume 2, (with Sean Wallace), Wyrm Publishing, 2019 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Five, Night Shade Books, 2020 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Six, Night Shade Books, Forthcoming 2021. Publishing Work. In addition to his work on Clarkesworld, through Wyrm Publishing, Neil has published books by Gene Wolfe, Charles Stross, Catherynne M. Valente and others. Wyrm also serves as the official publisher of the annual Clarkesworld anthologies. Memorare by Gene Wolfe (signed limited) Shriek: An Afterward by Jeff VanderMeer (signed limited) Tides from the New Worlds by Tobias S.

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