Last day for SH fiction subs
One last reminder: you have less than 24 hours left to submit fiction to Strange Horizons before we close to... (More...)
One last reminder: you have less than 24 hours left to submit fiction to Strange Horizons before we close to... (More...)
We've been seeing a lot of giant-monster stories lately. I've been assuming that most of them were rejected by one... (More...)
Just a reminder that if you want to submit to SH before our summer closure, you need to do so... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 1 March 2008; if you or anyone... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the months of May and June--that is, from May... (More...)
We ended up with 405 submissions in March, making it the third-highest-volume month we've ever had. That's an average of... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2008; if you or anyone... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department received its 20,000th submission this evening. Give or take. The official count overcounts some things... (More...)
This isn't a full report on SH submissions, but there are a couple of tidbits I wanted to mention: Before... (More...)
The past couple of weeks have seen a marked increase in mistakes on submissions. We've seen more mistakes than usual... (More...)
During the month of January, 2008, Strange Horizons received 494 valid submissions--our highest-volume month ever, but only barely edging out... (More...)
Submission volume this week, in stories per day, went: 45, 27, 25, 24, 17. So we had a total of... (More...)
Last year, submission volume went like this for the first four days of January: 33, 40, 35, 23. Those first... (More...)
Our server is in the US Eastern time zone, where it's just after midnight, so Strange Horizons has now reopened... (More...)
This is my annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
As of a couple hours ago, the Strange Horizons fiction department has responded to every story ever submitted to us.... (More...)
I'll do my end-of-year stats sometime soonish, but for now, just wanted to mention that we closed to subs shortly... (More...)
Reminder to authors: you have six more days (counting today) to submit to Strange Horizons before we close to subs... (More...)
Something that continues to baffle me, in a low-key sort of way: About two to three times a week (not... (More...)
This afternoon, we received our 19,000th submission. Well, okay, there's enough flex in definitions and recordkeeping that that's not an... (More...)
This year, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the months of November and December--that is,... (More...)
It just occurred to me that September 1 marked the 7th anniversary of the launch of Strange Horizons. Happy birthday,... (More...)
Our web host, Pair, upgraded our server on Thursday. As a result, for the past 48 hours, the Strange Horizons... (More...)
Three quick things as I rush off to a meeting: Susan's been nominated for a Special Award in the World... (More...)
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, some of the pieces we've published at Strange Horizons are now Creative-Commons-licensed. Below... (More...)
Strange Horizons is having its 2007 fund drive, and we need your help. Partly that means financial help, of course,... (More...)
A couple of our authors have recently expressed interest in providing Creative Commons licenses for their work that appears in... (More...)
I could have sworn I'd written about this recently, but I can't find it. Apologies if this is a repeat.... (More...)
We've now responded to all stories submitted before 24 April. If you submitted to us on or before 23 April... (More...)
Nick M. notes that only women submit to Clarkesworld using initials (in place of a first name). Which I found... (More...)
I sorta thought that submission volume was going down again, but I was wrong. April turned out to be our... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department has now responded to all stories submitted before 3 February 2007; if you or anyone... (More...)
A few authors have received mysterious Server Errors when they submit using our RTF submission form. The short version of... (More...)
Final submission count for January: 491 legitimate subs. Our previous highest-volume month was January of 2005, with 342 subs. That's... (More...)
A passel of sf-related news and tidbits (which seems to be all I post about these days--some day I'll have... (More...)
The first week of 2007 netted us a total of 161 SH submissions... (More...)
A few assorted tidbits I've been meaning to mention: adfamiliares and jere7my got engaged! J7y also posted a great photo... (More...)
Wednesday we received 35 valid submissions; Thursday "only" 23, which would still be enough to make it the fourth-highest-volume day... (More...)
Y'know how yesterday I said that we'd never received more than 33 valid subs in a single day? Today we... (More...)
On the first day of 2007, our authors gave to us: 33 valid submissions, 2 email submissions formatted in HTML... (More...)
This is my now-annual stats post: a whole bunch of statistics and thoughts regarding the Strange Horizons fiction department. (If... (More...)
We have now responded to all stories ever submitted to Strange Horizons. So if you've ever sent us a story... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fiction department is now temporarily closed to subs through the end of 2006. We reopen on January... (More...)
Just a reminder that the Strange Horizons fiction department will be closed to subs for the month of December, so... (More...)
As usual, the Strange Horizons fiction department is temporarily closing to submissions during the month of December this year. If... (More...)
The Strange Horizons fall fund drive is nearly over, and I still haven't managed to post about it. I suppose... (More...)
For the first five months of this year, submission volume each month at Strange Horizons almost exactly matched submission volume... (More...)
On Friday, September 1, 2000, at 2:30 a.m. UK time, Strange Horizons went live with our first content. I say... (More...)
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women. (More...)
I've noticed a couple of recurring problems in submissions to SH lately, so I wanted to spread the word about... (More...)
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)
We received our 14,000th submission at Strange Horizons yesterday. At the current rate of submissions, I'm expecting we'll reach 15,000... (More...)
Say you're a writer, and you want to submit to a magazine. Say you've actually read their submission guidelines, but there was something in them that you think the editors can't possibly have meant. (More...)
We've finally decided to take the RTF submission system out of beta, and to make it the official preferred submission... (More...)
In case anyone's been wondering what's up with the SH forum and missed Susan's explanation: Last Friday (9 June), Susan... (More...)
For over three months now, I've been meaning to post a note about Liz Henry's excellent SH review of Touched... (More...)
Tomorrow night (which is to say Wednesday, 10 May), there'll be a rapid-fire reading in San Francisco to benefit Strange... (More...)
Strange Horizons has announced the winners of the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. Congratulations to all! Also, as Susan notes in... (More...)
This past week turned out to be the fourth-highest-volume week ever for SH submissions; we received 90 stories this week.... (More...)
Assorted Year's Best TOCs and news and such: Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year's Best SF... (More...)
Two notes about the SH Readers' Choice Awards: The voting period has been extended to this coming Wednesday, March 22.... (More...)
Under the new eligibility rules for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, Strange Horizons is a qualifying... (More...)
It's often hard for readers to tell how long a given story is, and various awards divide stories into categories... (More...)
I've developed what I think is a fairly accurate (but entirely useless to most of the world) algorithm for a computer to automatically guess the gender of an author who submits to SH... (More...)
Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH. (More...)
Various editors of the various Year's Best science fiction and fantasy volumes have started posting their tables of contents. And... (More...)
Rather to my surprise, only three people have used the experimental RTF submission system in the week since I mentioned... (More...)
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and... (More...)
If you'd like to submit a story to Strange Horizons as an RTF file (rather than converting it to plain... (More...)
In January, 2006, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 339 submissions, which is 3 short of the record set in... (More...)