Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine . It released its first issue October 1, 2006, and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabeth Bear , Kij Johnson , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Sarah Monette , Catherynne M. Valente , Jeff VanderMeer and Peter Watts .
7-563: Clarkesworld Magazine is published or collected in a number of formats: Clarkesworld was founded in July 2006 and published its first issue in October of that year. 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
14-542: 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
21-593: A sudden increase in AI-generated stories sent to the magazine. (Short Form) Neil Clarke (editor) Neil Clarke (born 1966) is an American editor and publisher , mainly of science fiction and fantasy stories. In 2006, Clarke launched Clarkesworld Magazine as a companion to his online bookstore Clarkesworld Books (2000-2007). He serves as the editor-in-chief of the digital publication. Fiction published in Clarkesworld has been nominated for or won
28-608: The Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Locus, Ditmar, Aurealis, Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press and Stoker Awards. Clarkesworld has been a finalist for the Hugo Award in the Best Semiprozine category four times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013) winning in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Clarke has been a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor: Short Form in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. He received
35-649: The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in May 2019 and won the Locus Award for Best Editor in 2024. When Clarke closed his bookstore in 2007, he launched Wyrm Publishing, which has since published books by Gene Wolfe , Charles Stross , Catherynne M. Valente and others. Clarkesworld Magazine is currently published by Wyrm in online, digital, audio and print editions. He launched Forever Magazine in 2015 and became
42-571: The editor of The SFWA Bulletin in early 2016. He edits The Best Science Fiction of the Year series for Night Shade Books . He is also the ebook designer for Cheeky Frawg Books, Prime Books , Wyrm Publishing and several magazines. As of 2022, Clarke and his family reside in New Jersey. In 2012, Clarke suffered a severe heart attack while attending Readercon , and had a defibrillator implanted. He has credited this event with having led him to become
49-596: 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
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