This meant that whilst the stories did not need to be necessarily sensational, they had to be memorable and perhaps take risks. In establishing the publication criteria for short fiction, the editorial team believed that to make it easier to read online, stories should be short (originally a 4000-word limit was set but this has since been dropped) and should have a strong "pass along" factor, meaning that each story's, and thereby the magazine's, reputation would rapidly be networked. As at the end of 2012, Clarkesworld had an estimated 30,000 unique visitors every month.Ĭlarkesworld is open to any form of Speculative Fiction and stories can range from folklore and fable to hard sf and dark horror. The magazine introduced nonfiction content from issue #13 (October 2007), a regular podcast (fiction only) from issue #21 (June 2008) and an Ebook edition from #43 (April 2010), which is also being applied to back issues.
The first two of these are Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (anth 2008) and Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (anth 2010), both edited by Sean Wallace and Nick Mamatas, and from Clarkesworld: Year 3 (anth 2013) the editors have been Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace. In addition all of the stories from each year are collected and published in an annual Anthology. It was planned that the contents of each issue would be released as a chapbook, in a 100-copy limited edition, several months after online publication owing to printing problems this practice lapsed after the first three issues, but the wider availability of POD printing led to its return from January 2013. Cheryl Morgan was nonfiction editor from January 2009 to November 2011, succeeded by Jason Heller and then Kate Baker.Īlthough it pays SFWA qualifying rates and has a readership of just over 20,000, Clarkesworld was regarded as a Semiprozine for purposes of the Hugo, and won the award in that category in 2010, 20. The initial editors were Sean Wallace and Nick Mamatas until July 2008, respectively handling solicited fiction and unsolicited fiction/nonfiction Clarke and Wallace then co-edited until October 2010 and though Wallace theoretically moved on to his own magazine The Dark, he continued an involvement in Clarkesworld and returned as editor from January 2012.
It is published and co-edited by Neil Clarke, in Stirling, New Jersey, under the imprint Wyrm Publishing. US Online Magazine (later with print, ebook and podcast as well as online versions) which has appeared monthly since October 2006.
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