John Klima makes the same point when he says that if a publication hasn’t already been publishing diversity, why would that writer try that market? Vandermeer’s claim that a forthcoming issue focusses on ‘international’ writers itself confirms this unofficial ‘policy’. If ‘international writers’ were indeed welcome at WT, then why segregate them into a separate issue? Why not simply publish the best selection from all submissions without bothering about nationality?

I no longer even bother to submit material, whether short-length or book-length to US publishers. What’s the point? Each time I read a blogpost like this it only serves to remind how tough it is for even POC within the US to get published. What chance to POC from other countries have?

As one editor of a fantasy magazine (not one mentioned above) brightly put it to me: “The characters are memorable, the story is taut and interesting, the setting is original…This a good SF story. But why would I want to publish a story by you that could have been written by any American writer?” Why, indeed.

People I’ve known who are atheists, and who are very closed-minded about it, have tended to be much more active. Out of all the religious missonaries and recruiters I’ve been approached by, especially in recent years, the majority have been atheists, and they have tended to be more rude, more intrusive, and more personally demeaning than any other group on the whole–and that tally includes the time I got invited to a “movie night” that turned out to be a recruitment session for Xenos Christian Fellowship in disguise.

(Error analysis: I was a student at Emerson College within the past 5 years, which may be affecting my count)

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