“Speculative short fiction publishing is rife with anti-blackness, and white speculative fiction writers and publishers need to stop pretending otherwise,” she wrote. The biggest piece of data we don’t have is how many black writers are submitting stories to our magazine. We’re all failing.”White told the Guardian that in the future, he would “make a more conscious effort to directly solicit stories from black writers”. The report, published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2,039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. In an interview, NK Jemisin agreed that “black writers have their own market.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 13:48 UTC