I was poking through the Clarkesworld Magazine submissions database last night and thought I’d share:
SLUSH STATS FOR 2009
| Total Submissions | 4269 | |||
| Days open | 320 | |||
| Avg. Subs Per Day | 13.3 | |||
| # of Authors | 2721 | |||
| Highest # of Subs from a Single Author | 25 | |||
| By Gender | Total | Unique | ||
| Male | 2852 | 66.81% | 1826 | 67.06% |
| Female | 1416 | 33.17% | 896 | 32.90% |
| Unknown | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.04% |
| By Country | Total | Unique | ||
| United States | 3236 | 75.80% | 2075 | 76.20% |
| UK | 297 | 6.96% | 201 | 7.38% |
| Canada | 277 | 6.49% | 177 | 6.50% |
| Australia | 129 | 3.02% | 82 | 3.01% |
| Germany | 39 | 0.91% | 12 | 0.44% |
| Ireland | 26 | 0.61% | 14 | 0.51% |
| OTHER (52) | 265 | 6.21% | 162 | 5.95% |
| By Day of Week | ||||
| Sunday | 583 | 13.66% | ||
| Monday | 696 | 16.30% | ||
| Tuesday | 627 | 14.69% | ||
| Wednesday | 658 | 15.41% | ||
| Thursday | 629 | 14.73% | ||
| Friday | 572 | 13.40% | ||
| Saturday | 504 | 11.81% | ||
| Avg. Response Time | 1.49 | days | ||
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