Clarkesworld Magazine Statistical Breakdown

Internal information posted by any professional (or semi-professional, or token … well, you can see where I’m going with this) fiction market is exceedingly rare. Internal information from one of the top-tier fiction markets even moreso. So, speaking as a writer, the fact that Neil Clarke (who runs Clarkesworld) just shared Clarkesworld Magazine‘s statistical breakdowns in terms of website traffic/target market, submissions, publication by percentage, and other factors, is a gold mine for number crunching in terms of future submissions planning – or just for the monitoring of the statistical state of speculative fiction magazines. If you’re into that kind of thing …

You can find Neil’s June editorial post for Clarkesworld, “Editor’s Desk: Clarkesworld by the Numbers”, here.

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