In the interest of editorial transparency, and in the same vein as the Editor’s Note, I thought that I would publicly share the latest stats on submissions and responses.

Here are the statistics on what I’ve done editorially over the past month and year. All stats are accurate as of 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the month.

Monthly Stats – September 2023

Submissions received: 6

Submissions responded to: 16

Submissions accepted: 0

Average time from submission to response: 173 days

Median time from submission to response: 194 days

Longest time from submission to response: 220 days

Shortest time from submission to response: 113 days

Yearly Stats – previous 12 months

Submissions received: 91

Submissions responded to: 85

Submissions accepted: 2

Average time from submission to response: 89 days

Median time from submission to response: 86 days

Longest time from submission to response: 251 days

Shortest time from submission to response: 10 days

All-time Stats

Submissions received: 274

Submissions responded to: 250

Submissions accepted: 10

Average time from submission to response: 64 days

Median time from submission to response: 55 days

Longest time from submission to response: 251 days

Shortest time from submission to response: 3 days

Submissions to be responded to

Submissions awaiting response: 24

Average time since submission: 141 days

Median time since submission: 154 days

Longest time since submission: 278 days

Shortest time since submission: 13 days

If you submitted a story longer ago than the longest time since submission and haven’t heard back from me, let me know. It may have fallen through the cracks or my response may have gotten lost in cyberspace.