Clarkesworld Magazine will be closed to short story submissions from December 1st through January 15th. The holidays are crazy enough without having to keep up with a slush pile. 🙂
I shouldn’t need to say this, but….
This does not mean that we’re shutting down the magazine. It is simply a vacation for the slush readers. Through this period and for the foreseeable future, new issues will be published monthly, as scheduled.
You “shouldn’t have to say this…?” I hesitate to ask why you need to reassure us. Must be an interesting story there.
Not really. In the past, I’ve seen some people (always authors) declare a market closed/closing just because they weren’t currently accepting submissions.