February 2025
Thank you to everyone who submitted stories in January! We're now closed to fiction submissions until July 1st. We received 257 stories, which is typical for us (last January, we received 245). If you sent us a story, you can expect to hear back from us before the end of May, but not necessarily much before then, especially if it gets shortlisted. As of right now, we plan to accept five stories, to publish between July and October of this year, but if we reach our next Patreon funding milestone before we finish selecting stories, we will be able to accept a sixth. (Usually it would be seven stories with the possibility of an eighth, but we accepted two Christmas stories from the July submission window, so...) We're currently at $260/month, and only need to reach $275/month in order to start accepting an additional story from every submission window going forward. That's only an additional $15/month! We have multiple tiers at which subscribers can support us, with differen...