December 2024
We are pleased and relieved to announce that we did finish reviewing stories received during our July submission window, almost in time to meet our self-imposed deadline of November 30th. Of the 298 stories submitted, we selected nine. We were only planning to accept seven, but there were two Christmas stories we really liked, so we accepted seven stories to publish between January and July, and two Christmas stories to publish at the end of next year. Unfortunately, since we prefer to only consider Christmas stories submitted in January (we've tried to make this clearer in our submission guidelines, for future reference), this means that we are not open to Christmas stories again until January 2026. (If you send us a Christmas story we like before then, we will invite you to resubmit it in January 2026. Probably.) This also means, unfortunately, that we won't be able to accept as many stories from our next submission period, in January 2025. We usually choose seven, but since...
