I don’t enjoy writing editorials. I much prefer to be behind the scenes, picking stories or artwork, but this month I feel obligated to say something. As you may have heard, last month, I was nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Editor Short Form category. It blew my mind. Since Clarkesworld is my [...]

It wouldn’t be appropriate to end this issue without sending congratulations to E. Lily Yu and Catherynne M. Valente for their respective Nebula Award nominations for Best Short Story and Best Novella. We’re quite pleased to see "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" and "Silently and Very Fast" on the [...]

The results from our 2011 Reader’s Poll have been tabulated and your feedback gone over with a fine-tooth comb. Without further ado, I give you this year’s winners:
COVER ART
THIRD PLACE
(TIE, listed in order of appearance)

Nautili
by Julie Dillon

The Towers of KEILAH
by Ferdinand Ladera

Off Road
by Facundo [...]

Every year, we give you the opportunity to pick your Clarkesworld favorites from the prior year. This time around, you’ll have the opportunity to select your favorite story and cover art from 2011, as well as give us a little feedback. Feel free to use the comments on this post to help promote your favorites. [...]

I expected to be attending World Fantasy Convention in San Diego today, but my family, day job and airfare conspired to keep me home. Instead of spending a nice warm day in California, I am being subjected to a rare Fall snowstorm in New Jersey. As I write this editorial, the [...]

This month is Clarkesworld’s fifth anniversary!
When your children turn five, you throw them a party and family conversation inevitably turns to how fast the birthday boy/girl has grown. When your dog turns five, someone always points out, that in dog years, Rover is thirty-five. When your online magazine turns five, well, [...]

I’m going to be brief this month. In case you haven’t heard, there have been some distractions around here in the form of Hurricane Irene. We’re all safe and sound, but I do have something to say…
Thank you.
For the second year in a row, Clarkesworld Magazine has won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. The [...]

Like some of you, I’ll be heading off to Worldcon this month. I missed last year’s convention in Australia, so I’m looking forward to the long weekend in Reno, Nevada. Renovation has sent me my schedule, so I thought I’d share a little of what goes on there and perhaps entice anyone attending [...]

I’d like to thank everyone that has purchased a subscription to Clarkesworld on their Kindle or Kindle app. With your help, it looks like there’s a good chance that we’ll be able to hit our goal of 500 subscribers by our fifth anniversary issue in October, and if we do, you’ll [...]