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Frequency Monthly Country United States Originally published 1 November 2010 Editor Neil Clarke		Company Wyrm Publishing Based in Stirling, New Jersey Author Neil Clarke Editor Neil Clarke
Categories fantasy and science fiction First issue October 2006 (2006-October) Awards Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine Nominations World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional Similar Cat Pictures Please, The Paper Menagerie, The Grace of Kings, Binti, Folding Beijing

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Clarkesworld Magazine (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released the first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Kij Johnson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Sarah Monette, Catherynne 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, iPad and iPhone devices

EPUB, Amazon Kindle, and Mobipocket ebook 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 EPUB readers

Awards and recognition

Winner 2006 Million Writers Award for "Best New Online Magazine"

Winner 2006 Million Writers Award for "Urchins, While Swimming" by Catherynne M. Valente (12/2006 Issue)

Nominee 2007 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction, "There's No Light Between Floors" by Paul Tremblay (05/2007 Issue)

Finalist 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction, "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer (04/2007 Issue)

Finalist 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction, "Something in the Mermaid Way" by Carrie Laben (03/2007 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 Elizabeth Bear (01/2007 Issue)

Named SciFi.com Site of the Week: August 29, 2007

Winner 2009 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "Floating Fish" by Mats Minnhagen (4/2008 Issue)

Nominee 2009 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

Nominee 2009 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional

Nominee 2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica", Catherynne M. Valente (05/2008 Issue)

Nominee 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "Non-Zero Probabilities", N. K. Jemisin (09/2009 Issue)

Winner 2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "Spar", Kij Johnson (10/2009 Issue)

Winner 2010 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

Nominee 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "Non-Zero Probabilities", N. K. Jemisin (09/2009 Issue)

Nominee 2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "Spar", Kij Johnson (10/2009 Issue)

Finalist 2010 Locus Award for Best Magazine, finished 4th

Finalist 2010 Locus Award for Best Short Story, "Spar", Kij Johnson (10/2009 Issue), finished 2nd

Nominee 2010 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "Brain Tower", Kazuhiko Nakamura (11/2009 Issue)

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

Nominee 2010 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional

Nominee 2010 BSFA Award for Best Short Story, "The Things", Peter Watts (01/2010 Issue)

Winner 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, "The Things", Peter Watts (01/2010 Issue)

Winner 2011 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

Nominee 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "The Things", Peter Watts (01/2010 Issue)

Finalist 2011 Locus Award for Best Short Story, "The Things", Peter Watts (01/2010 Issue)

Finalist 2011 Locus Award for Best Short Story, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time", Catherynne M. Valente (08/2010 Issue)

Nominee 2011 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "Warm", Sergio Rebolledo (01/2010 Issue)

Nominee 2011 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "Honeycomb", Julie Dillon (09/2010 Issue)

Nominee 2011 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "Soulhunter", Andrey Lazarev (11/2010 Issue)

Nominee 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (4/2011 Issue)

Nominee 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novella, "Silently and Very Fast", Catherynne M. Valente (10/2011-12/2011 Issues)

Finalist 2012 Locus Award for Best Magazine

Finalist 2012 Locus Award for Best Short Story, "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (4/2011 Issue)

Winner 2012 Locus Award for Best Novella, "Silently and Very Fast", Catherynne M. Valente (10/2011-12/2011 Issues)

Nominee 2012 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (4/2011 Issue)

Nominee 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella, "Silently and Very Fast", Catherynne M. Valente (10/2011-12/2011 Issues)

Nominee 2012 Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, Neil Clarke

Nominee 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (4/2011 Issue)

Nominee 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, "Silently and Very Fast", Catherynne M. Valente (10/2011-12/2011 Issues)

Nominee 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional

Winner 2012 Chesley Awards for Best Magazine Cover, "New World" by Ken Barthelmey

Finalist 2013 Locus Award for Best Magazine

Nominee 2013 Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, Neil Clarke

Winner 2013 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

Finalist 2014 Locus Award for Best Magazine

Nominee 2014 Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, Neil Clarke

Winner 2014 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional Kate Baker, Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace for Clarkesworld

Winner 2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine/Periodical

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

Gardner Dozois, Reprint Editor, April 2013 – present

Jeremy L.C. Jones, Interviewer, September 2010 – present

Former staff

Jason Heller, Non-Fiction Editor, January 2012 – December 2012

Cheryl Morgan, Non-Fiction Editor, January 2009 – December 2011

Nick Mamatas, Editor, October 2006 – July 2008

Ekaterina Sedia, Interim Non-Fiction Editor, August 2008 – December 2008

References

Clarkesworld Magazine Wikipedia

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