SH open to subs
Happy new year, all!
The Strange Horizons fiction department has, of course, reopened to submissions. We've had eight so far this morning.
The only even remotely significant change to our guidelines is a tiny subtle one: I'd now like authors, when specifying wordcount at the top of the submission email, to always round up to the next-highest hundred words, rather than just round off to the nearest hundred. We round up when we're paying, so if authors also round up, it'll give us a more accurate impression of the wordcount we'll be paying for.
As always, the wordcount is meant as an approximation, just to give us a rough idea of how long the story is. We re-count words before sending a check and contract anyway.
But if you happen to think of it when submitting, round up.
(It occurs to me that in various meta-entries about this journal lately I never quite mentioned that a lot of the people who read this are authors who submit to us, so I often use the journal as an informal and unofficial way to spread magazine news. For those of y'all who aren't writers, I tend to figure you can just skip those entries.)