With the start of a new year comes the inevitable looking back at the previous one. Strictly by the numbers, here’s a quick snapshot of Clarkesworld’s 2022 output.

• 12 issues
• 71 authors
• 37 authors had never been published in Clarkesworld before
• 9 authors making their first sale
• 86 stories (classified by Hugo Award categories below)
• 65 short stories
• 16 novelettes
• 5 novellas
• 11 translations
• 547,000 words total
• 0 solicited works (all works were published from open submissions, not by invitation)
• 24 interviews
• 12 articles
• 86 podcasts
• 12 works of art for our cover

In preparation for our annual reader’s poll and awards season, here’s a detailed list of the stories we published:

Short Stories

• “The Uncurling of Samsara” by Koji A. Dae
• “The Lion and the Virgin” by Megan J. Kerr
• “The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing or A For Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro” by Geoffrey W. Cole
• “No One at the Wild Dock” by Gu Shi, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu
• “Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism” by Andrea Kriz
• “For Whom the Psychopomp Calls” by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
• “The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse” by Isabel J. Kim
• “The Plasticity of Youth” by Marissa Lingen
• “You’re Not the Only One” by Octavia Cade
• “Informed Consent Logs from the Soul Swap Clinic” by Sarah Pauling
• “The Old Moon” by John McNeil
• “The Dragon Project” by Naomi Kritzer
• “Saturn Devouring His Son” by EA Mylonas
• “Rain of Days” by Ray Nayler
• “It Takes a Village” by Priya Chand
• “Meddling Fields” by R.T. Ester
• “Commencement Address” by Arthur Liu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhz
• “Doc Luckless and the Stationmistress” by Thoraiya Dyer
• “Two Spacesuits” by Leonard Richardson
• “An Expression of Silence” by Beth Goder
• “An Urge To Create Honey” by Martin Cahill
• “The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame” by Parker Ragland
• “Wants Pawn Term” by Rich Larson
• “Tea Parties around Nebula-55” by Adriana C. Grigore
• “Hatching” by Bo Balder
• “The Possibly Brief Life of Guang Hansheng” by Liang Qingsan, translated by Andy Dudak
• “A Manual on Different Options of How to Bring A Loved One to Life” by Oyedotun Damilola Muees
• “Gamma” by Oskar Källner, translated by Gordon James Jones
• “Company Town” by Aimee Ogden
• “The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift” by Nika Murphy
• “Manjar dos Deuses” by Anna Martino
• “The Odyssey Problem” by Chris Willrich
• “Marsbodies” by Adele Gardner
• “The Forgotten” by Eliane Boey
• “To Be” by Ahmed Asi
• “Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist” by Isabel J. Kim
• “Tender, Tether, Shell” by M. J. Pettit
• “The Pirate’s Consigliere” by Bo Balder
• “Pollatomish” by Finbarr O’Reilly
• “Slight Forms” by R.T. Ester
• “The Scene of the Crime” by Leonard Richardson
• “Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper” by Derrick Boden
• “The Slow Deaths of Automobiles” by Fiona Moore
• “Border Run” by Octavia Cade
• “Sub-son” by Amal Singh
• “Shining Bursa and the Listening Post” by Sarah Pauling
• “Timekeepers’ Symphony” by Ken Liu
• “Rivers Bend” by James Sallis
• “Junk Hounds” by Lavie Tidhar
• “Coding Van Gogh” by Elaine Gao
• “Fly Free” by Alan Kubatiev, translated by Alex Shvartsman
• “Giant Fish” by Chu Shifan, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu
• “The Secret Strength of Things” by Gregory Feeley
• “Rondo for Strings and Lasergun” by Jared Oliver Adams
• “The Rhythm of the Soul” by Michelle Julia John
• “Accountability, and Other Myths of Old Earth” by Aimee Ogden
• “Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black” by Isabel J. Kim
• “The Transfiguration of the Gardener Irene by the Dead Planet Hipea” by Ann LeBlanc
• “The Whelk” by Samara Auman
• “Law of Tongue” by Naim Kabir
• “Keiki’s Pitcher Plant” by Bri Castagnozzi
• “The Resting Place of Trees” by Ben Berman Ghan
• “Left to Die” by Vandana Singh
• “To Exorcise Mechanical Ghosts” by Laney Gaughan
• “The Lightness” by Alex Sobel

Novelettes

• “The Direction of Clocks” by Jess Levine
• “The Memory of Water” by Tegan Moore
• “Wanting Things” by Cal Ritterhoff
• “Dream Factory” by Greg Egan
• “Hanuman the Monkey King” by Pan Haitian, translated by Emily Jin
• “Inhuman Lovers” by Chen Qian, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan
• “We Built This City” by Marie Vibbert
• “Carapace” by David Goodman
• “The Sadness Box” by Suzanne Palmer
• “The Strange Girl” by Xiu Xinyu, translated by Emily Jin
• “Sweetbaby” by Thomas Ha
• “Lost and Found” by M. L. Clark
• “The Lonely Time Traveler of Kentish Town” by Nadia Afifi
• “Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles” by Yang Wanqing, translated by Jay Zhang
• “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” by S.L. Huang
• “Upstart” by Lu Ban, translated by Blake Stone-Banks

Novellas

• “Bishop’s Opening” by R.S.A. Garcia
• “Babirusa” by Arula Ratnakar
• “Kora Is Life” by David D. Levine (this falls within the 10% rule for the Hugo Awards, so the author requests that you consider this a novelette should you nominate it)
• “Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System” by Carrie Vaughn
• “Live Update” by Lettie Prell

Cover Art

• “Return to Heaven 7” by Zezhou Chen
• “Talk” by JC Jongwon Park
• “SurtiBot and Mister Oink” by Alejandro Burdisio
• “Ashes” by Yuumei
• “Shrine of Nameless Stars” by Daniel Ignacio
• “The Pod” by Eddie Mendoza
• “Red Sand Planet Sightseeing” by Henrik Lundblad
• “Transport Walker” by Hamish Frater
• “Canvas of Life - Violet” by Raja Nandepu
• “Art Block” by Daniel Conway
• “Canvas of Life - Yellow” by Raja Nandepu
• “Rebirth” by Luca Monteleone

For the purpose of the Hugo Awards, Clarkesworld is classified as a professional magazine. This has been the case for several years now, but there are still a few people who continue to nominate us for Best Semiprozine. While we appreciate the sentiment, we are NOT eligible for that award. Instead, if you want to recognize our work, please nominate our stories in the appropriate categories and/or nominate me (Neil Clarke) for Editor Short Form.

Our annual reader’s poll—where readers pick their favorite Clarkesworld story and cover art from 2022—is once again employing a two-phase process:

Phase One: Nominations (mid-January)

Later this month, we’ll open for a forty-eight hour flash nomination period to identify the top five candidates in each category: story and art. The announcement for this phase will be sent out via:

• Twitter (twitter.com/clarkesworld)
• Mastodon (mastodon.online/@clarkesworld)
• Facebook (www.facebook.com/clarkesworld)
• Patreon (www.patreon.com/clarkesworld)
• My blog (neil-clarke.com)

The purpose of the brevity of this phase is to create a sense of urgency and reduce the opportunities for a coordinated ballot-stuffing campaign. Previous efforts have proved this to be effective at meeting these goals.

Phase Two: Final Voting (February)

The five finalists in each category will be announced in my February editorial. Final voting will open on the 1st and continue through the 15th. The winners will be announced in our March issue.

Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2023.

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