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Response times

Updated Dec 2007
A summary of response times for story submissions to short fiction markets, showing the average, median, minimum and maximum times. This is solely based on my own experience with these markets. Your mileage may vary.



  Response Time in Weeks # of
Category / Market Name Avg Median Min Max Subs
=PRO GENRE (TOP TIER)=  
Alfred Hitchcock 10 6 5 19 3
Analog 5 5 4 8 6
Asimov's SF 9 6 2 21 11
Baen's Universe 6 4 1 14 4
Brutarian Quarterly 7 6 2 20 8
Cemetery Dance 23 24 11 32 4
ChiZine 1 1 1 1 1
Cicada 16 15 4 37 17
Dark Wisdom 17 17 14 20 2
EQMM 11 10 9 15 5
Fantasy & SF 2 2 2 4 14
Glimmer Train 8 7 2 21 14
Intergalactic Medicine Show 7 7 7 7 1
Interzone 19 12 6 52 6
Playboy 5 5 1 9 13
Postscripts 1 1 2 4
PS Publishing Showcase 1 1 1 1 3
Realms of Fant. 10 9 4 23 6
Strange Horizons 5 5 4 5 5
The 3rd Alternative 12 8 1 30 12
=PRO / BEST OF ANTHOS=  
Ages of Wonder 1 1 1 1 1
Best American Fantasy 52 52 52 52 1
Best New Horror (Jones) 29 33 10 43 7
Best New Paranormal Romance 52 52 52 52 3
Best of the Rest 17 4 2 44 3
Fantasy: Best of 200x 52 52 52 52 2
Polyphony 7 15 15 13 21 6
Scholastic YA antho 1 1 1 1 2
SF: Best of 200x 36 37 29 43 4
YBF&H (Datlow) 19 22 4 30 3
Year's Best SF (Dozois) 22 22 22 22 1
=LITERARY (TOP TIER)=  
Atlantic Monthly 4 2 2 8 4
Boulevard 18 18 10 25 2
Chatahoochee Review 9 9 9 9 1
Cincinnati Review 8 8 8 8 1
Georgia Review 5 5 5 5 2
Gettysburg Review 27 27 27 27 1
Harper's Magazine 4 3 3 5 5
Malahat Review (Cdn) 22 22 22 22 1
Missouri Review 8 8 4 11 2
New Yorker 11 13 7 14 3
Paris Review 19 20 13 24 3
Ploughshares 25 25 17 32 2
Practice: New Writing+Art 33 33 33 33 1
Prairie
Fire 		 17 15 13 23 3
Southern Review 10 10 10 10 1
subtropics 2 2 2 2 2
The Sun 23 23 20 25 3
Tin House 9 9 9 9 1
Yale Review 12 9 8 19 3
Zoetrope 18 17 5 30 11
=LITERARY (OTHER)=  
Capilano Review (Cdn) 14 14 14 14 1
Crab Orchard Review 23 23 23 23 1
Descant (Cdn) 21 21 21 22 3
Epoch 6 6 5 6 2
Event (Cdn) 10 10 6 14 2
New Quarterly 15 15 15 15 1
Ontario Review 7 8 4 9 3
Prism (Cdn) 5 5 5 5 1
Queen's Quarterly (Cdn) 7 7 7 7 1
=PRO GENRE (OTHER)=  
Aeon Speculative Fiction 6 6 2 15 5
Black Gate 14 14 3 24 7
City Slab 7 7 1 19 5
Dragon 5 5 3 7 2
Fantasy Magazine 7 7 5 8 2
Heliotrope 4 4 4 4 1
Hub 20 20 20 20 1
Lady Churchill's R.W. 8 8 5 10 4
Nemonymous 13 13 2 23 2
Noctem Aeternus 6 6 6 6 1
On Spec 29 29 28 30 3
Tesseracts12 1 1 1 1 1
The Bear Deluxe 25 25 25 25 1
The Edge 3 2 1 8 4
Triangulation: End of Time 4 4 4 4 1
Weird Tales 13 13 1 28 6
=PAYING GENRE=  
Aberrant Dreams 19 19 19 19 1
Andromeda Spaceways (Aust) 4 4 4 4 1
Anthrolations 15 15 15 15 1
Aurealis 19 13 6 56 6
BFS Publications 8 8 8 8 1
Byline 6 6 5 6 3
Challenging Destiny 4 2 2 11 5
Escape Pod (audio) 10 8 5 18 3
Gobshite Quarterly 15 14 1 28 5
Horror Garage 7 7 3 11 2
Horror Library, Vol.2 3 3 3 3 2
Neo-opsis 4 1 13 4
Podcastle (audio) 1 1 1 1 1
Storyteller 7 7 4 11 3
The Strand 23 23 18 28 2
=ON HIATUS=  
Alchemy 2 2 1 4 5
Best YA SF&F (Yolen) 27 27 4 50 2
Dreams of Decad. 12 12 12 12 1
Spectrum SF 2 2 2 3 3
=FOREIGN LANGUAGE=  
9 (Greece) 43 52 26 52 3
Axxon (Argentina) 17 17 17 17 1
Bang! (Portugal) 3 3 3 3 1
Bli-Panika (Israel) 3 3 3 3 1
Delos (Italy) 8 8 8 8 1
Dorado Raganos (Lith) 24 24 1 46 2
Dramaturges of Yann (Greek) 17 17 17 17 1
Emblèmes (France) 30 11 3 75 3
E-nigma (Portugal) 1 1 1 1 1
Esli (Russia) 11 5 1 28 3
Faeries (France) 10 10 10 10 1
Fantazia (Slovakia) 52 52 52 52 1
Futura (Croatia) 3 3 3 3 1
Galaktika (Hungary) 16 16 16 16 1
Gigamesh (Spain) 53 53 53 53 1
Hayakawa (Japan) 50 52 39 52 6
Hungarian antho (Hungary) 4 4 4 4 1
Nowa Fantastyka (Poland) 14 14 12 15 2
Proxima (Denmark) 45 45 45 45 1
Pure Fantasy (Netherlands) 15 15 15 15 1
Real'nost' Fantastiki
(Ukraine)		 14 14 1 26 2
Robot (Italy) 27 27 8 45 2
Sable (Spain) 2 2 2 2 1
Science Fiction (Denmark) 1 1 1 1 1
SF World (China) 2 2 1 2 2
Spin (Finland) 10 10 10 10 1
Supernova (Russia) 200 200 200 200 1
Tähtivaeltaja (Finland) 8 8 1 13 4
Tenth Dimension (Israel) 3 3 3 3 1
Terra Fantastica (Bulgaria) 11 11 3 19 2
Universe Pathways (Greece) 1 1 1 1 3
Via Galactica (Croatia) 112 112 112 112 1
World of English (China) 7 7 7 7 1