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It’s been a stellar 12 months right here on the journal… see what I did there? Stellar?
We printed our first anthology! We crossed 1 / 4 million web page views on the positioning and handed the 150 video mark on our YouTube channel.
We launched a assist group for writers that meets each Thursday night time and doubled the dimensions of our editorial group. 
And, since we launched in the summertime of 2020, we’ve printed greater than 700 tales and articles by over 300 totally different writers.
However that’s not all.
Subsequent 12 months goes to be even larger and even higher. We’ve already begun work on our second anthology, and are in talks with two authors about serializing their novels. We’re additionally planning on including new common segments to our YouTube channel comparable to dialogue exhibits about speculative fiction books, motion pictures, video games, and science and know-how.
Are you curious about being part of any of that? We’re at all times searching for YouTube present company and co-hosts, and, after all, editors and contributors for our web site and books. You could possibly additionally assist us with organizational efforts, fundraising, or social media outreach. In return, you get to turn out to be a part of a neighborhood of authors and editors, and community with a few of the largest names within the area.
At a time when AIs are about to swoop in and switch the writing career the other way up, writers should lean more durable into their humanity to outlive — and to thrive. Which means reaching out to different writers and readers, exhibiting folks that you’re human, that you’ve got a standpoint, that your work has that means — you’re not simply placing out random collections of sentences picked by AI as being almost definitely to draw readers.
Electronic mail me at [email protected] should you’re all for serving to us out or should you’re trying to submit brief tales or essays.
However most of all, I’d prefer to thank our editorial group.
Melody Friedenthal has been the center of our operation, copyediting all the things that goes up on the positioning, in addition to organizing and modifying our anthology. Geordie Morse, our unbelievable fiction editor, has been main a group of volunteer judges and, along with the assistance of Terrence Smith, has been shepherding tons of of submissions by means of the overview course of each spring and fall. Marie Ginga, our reprints and excerpts editor, has chosen and printed greater than 300 reprints and excerpts. Alex Korolov has been managing our information submissions, and Amira Loutfi has been coordinating with science fiction and fantasy publishers to get overview copies of books within the palms of our volunteer reviewers.
E.E. King and Andrea Goyan, the hosts of our Lengthy Misplaced Associates YouTube present, have been spectacular. This previous 12 months, they interviewed Hugo-award winner Neil Clarke, sci-fi legends Mercedes Lackey and Larry Niven, writers Gini Koch and Shelby Van Pelt, and lots of, many extra.
And our e book overview group, together with Carla Nordlund, Romel Madray, N.T. Narbutovskih, Mary Stoll, Sydney Levinson, and Christina Brown.
And don’t let me neglect our Patreon supporters. Their donations pay for all the unique fiction that’s printed on the positioning. Humphrey Value, Mary C Stoll, Alexander Korolov, Avery Parks, Terrence Smith, Brad Middle, David Perlmutter, Samantha Bryant, Melody Friedenthal, Renay Intisar Jihad, Anastasia Korolov, and Amira Loutfi — you guys rock and we love you!
Right here’s to an awesome 2023! Might all human writers and readers reside lengthy and prosper!
