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edited by Neil Clarke. It released its first issue October 1, 2006, and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as

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, Kij Johnson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sarah Monette, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeff VanderMeer and Peter Watts.

Formats

''Clarkesworld Magazine'' is published or collected in a number of formats: * All fiction is collected annually in print anthologies published by Wyrm Publishing * Apps are available for Android,

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editions of each issue are available for purchase * All content is available online via the magazine website * All fiction is available in audio format via podcast or direct download * Ebook subscriptions for the Kindle and

readers * Print issues are sold on Amazon and also available as a Patreon subscription option

History

Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace founded ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' in July 2006, originally as a companion to ''Clarkesworld Books'', a now defunct online bookstore. The magazine published its first issue three months later. In February 2007, ''Clarkesworld'' announced the first in a series of annual print anthologies starting with ''Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine''. It was published in June 2008 by Wyrm Publishing. In January 2015, ''Clarkesworld'' began a relationship with Storycom to regularly translate and publish works of Chinese science fiction in their issues. In February 2019, editor Neil Clarke announced that the magazine had received a grant from LTI Korea for the purposes of translating and publishing nine Korean science fiction stories in upcoming issues of ''Clarkesworld''. In January 2020, its editor Neil Clarke withdrew a short story by Isabel Fall at Fall's request, " I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", after Fall had been harassed by people who suspected the story of trolling or transphobia. In November 2022, editor Neil Clarke announced that the magazine would be opening a submission period for science fiction written in Spanish. In December 2022, Amazon declared that they would stop selling magazine subscriptions. Clarke called the announcement "devastating", and noted that they had been offered a chance to continue in Kindle Unlimited for less money. On 20 February 2023, ''Clarkesworld'' temporarily closed submissions due to a sudden increase in AI-generated stories sent to the magazine. During the first weeks of 2023, the magazine received 35 times as many fake spam submissions (the magazine categorizes AI-generated stories as spam) as it did last year during the same time frame.

Awards and recognition

Awards to magazine and editors

Other honors

* Winner 2006 Million Writers Award for "Best New Online Magazine" * Named SciFi.com Site of the Week: August 29, 2007

Art

Content

* Winner 2006 Million Writers Award for
Urchins, While Swimming
by Catherynne M. Valente (12/2006 Issue) * Finalist 2007 WSFA Small Press Award,
The Third Bear
by Jeff VanderMeer (04/2007 Issue) * Finalist 2007 WSFA Small Press Award,
Orm the Beautiful
by

(01/2007 Issue) * Finalist 2010 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form),
The Things
, Peter Watts (01/2010 Issue)

Current staff

* Neil Clarke, publisher, editor-in-chief * Sean Wallace, editor, October 2006 – present *Kate Baker, Podcast Director, October 2009 – present, non-fiction editor, January 2013 – present

Former staff

Gardner Dozois Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of '' The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of '' Asimov's Science Fict ...

, reprint editor, April 2013 – May 2018 *Jeremy L.C. Jones, interviewer, September 2010 – December 2014 *Jason Heller, non-fiction editor, January 2012 – December 2012 * Cheryl Morgan, non-fiction editor, January 2009 – December 2011 * Nick Mamatas, editor, October 2006 – July 2008Clarkesworld Livejournal
entry June 23, 2008 about Mamatas's departure * Ekaterina Sedia, interim non-fiction editor, August 2008 – December 2008

References

External links

*
''Clarkesworld''s Awards & Recognition List
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