http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/ A blog by the Strange Horizons fiction editors, providing information for fiction writers who submit to the magazine. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:25:10 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.32 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I'm sorry to say that we're going to delay reopening to fiction submissions again, by a couple more weeks. I'm sorry not to post this sooner; we've been trying to figure out details of the timing of Susan's announcement of... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2012/01/delaying_reopen.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2012/01/delaying_reopen.shtml Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:25:10 -0500 As of a couple of hours ago, we in the SH fiction department have responded to every story ever submitted to us. So if you've ever sent us a story but haven't heard back from us, please query ASAP. And... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/12/done_responding.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/12/done_responding.shtml Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:04:30 -0500 I'm sorry to say that the SH fiction department is going to stay closed to submissions through the month of January. We'll reopen on February 1. I know that's a long time for us to be closed. But we only... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/12/staying_closed_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/12/staying_closed_.shtml Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:47:20 -0500 As has been our tradition in recent years, we'll be closed to fiction submissions during the months of November and December. So if you want us to consider something before the end of the year, submit before the end of... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/10/annual_winter_c.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/10/annual_winter_c.shtml Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:52:00 -0500 The SH fiction department has reopened to submissions. Sorry we were closed for so long. We had a big backlog and we were short-staffed for various reasons. But my colleagues have read an impressive number of stories in the past... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/10/reopening.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/10/reopening.shtml Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:17:20 -0500 We find ourselves short-staffed and several weeks behind on reading, so unfortunately we have to temporarily close to submissions again. Not sure how long we'll be closed, but probably a couple of weeks. Sorry about that.... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/09/temporarily_clo.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/09/temporarily_clo.shtml Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:43:25 -0500 About a week ago, we received our 35,000th submission. We've also now received submission from well over 15,000 authors. For more details, see my post from last year about reaching 30,000 subs.... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/07/submission_mile.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/07/submission_mile.shtml Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:10 -0500 We've been getting a surprising number of submissions lately with cover letters addressed to Niall Harrison. Niall is the magazine's Editor-in-Chief. He doesn't read or decide on fiction submissions. I think our various guidelines pages make pretty clear who the... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/niall_is_not_a_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/niall_is_not_a_.shtml Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:53:20 -0500 For a while now, we've been unable to stick to our stated maximum response time of 70 days. We've had a lot of responses go over 70 days, a fair number over 80, and a few even over 90. I... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/increasing_our_.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/increasing_our_.shtml Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:54:30 -0500 I'm sorry to say that we're ridiculously far behind in responding to stories. Our longest response times have gone way over our 70-day deadline; we've been getting lots of queries from authors, which is totally the right thing for authors... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/very_slow_respo.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/very_slow_respo.shtml Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:01:30 -0500 We've opened to subs again. We're still kind of backlogged on reading and responding to stories, but we're working on catching up.... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/reopened.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/06/reopened.shtml Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:30:27 -0500 Looks like I've fallen way behind on posting submission stats. Sorry about that. In March 2011, we received 269 valid submissions, an average of about 20 and a half submissions a day for the roughly 13 days of that month... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/05/stats_march_and.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/05/stats_march_and.shtml Sun, 22 May 2011 19:48:00 -0500 This time of year is a busy one for us SH fiction editors, what with WisCon and travel and such. So for the past couple years, we've closed to subs for a week or two around the end of May,... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/05/closing_to_subs.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/05/closing_to_subs.shtml Sun, 22 May 2011 18:43:10 -0500 I'm sorry to say that we're way behind on responding to stories. We've currently got over 25 stories that are past our 70-day deadline on responses. We'll try and respond to as many of those as we can as soon... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/04/running_slow_on.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/04/running_slow_on.shtml Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:26:10 -0500 We intended to close to subs for a week or so, but our backlog took longer to go through than we'd expected. And then we were planning to reopen this past Sunday, but I was offline for a few days... http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/03/reopened.shtml http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction-info/2011/03/reopened.shtml Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:07:25 -0500