What’s the same:
- payrate: 10 cents per word
- story length: 1-4K
- stories to appear online (text and audio), as signed chapbooks, and in Realms, the annual Clarkesworld print anthology
- the types of stories we’re looking for
- non-fiction and art submissions submissions still via email
What’s different:
- fiction submissions must be made through our online submissions system instead of email
- an ability to check on the status of your submission through the same web page (including how many stories are ahead of you)
- stories submitted as RTF or Word documents
- form letters instead of personalized rejections
- new group of slush readers
- new editor: Neil Clarke
- new goal: 14 day response response time
Full submission guidelines can be found here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/
Submissions received before September 20th will be deleted.
Technical issues can be sent to clarkesfiction@gmail.com. This is a new system, so honest feedback (to the same email address) would be appreciated.
Very cool at least that explains why you haven’t been able to email me on my recent order.
Did you code the tracking system yourself?
🙂
I used an open source helpdesk ticket system as the basis for it, but it’s been very heavily modified to fit my specific needs.
very cool. now email me damnit!
Yeah, was just checking that… you had a typo in your email address on the order. Looking up the right one now.
well don’t I suck. heh
the status tracking is a good idea, it works pretty well at ASIM and goes a long way towards soothing nervous author nerves. ditto the web submissions form. it works pretty well where I’ve seen it (Strange Horizons primarily, although there’s another one I can’t remember now).
well, the era of Neil Clarke editor is about to dawn in full it seems. luck:)
Thanks! I haven’t had a chance to see either of those two systems, but I’ve heard good things. I figured it was time to put that computer science degree to good use and make the process more friendly.