BayCon Submissions Breakdown

[deirdre]

There’s often questions about markets’ submission breakdowns, particularly by sex. BayCon’s submission period just closed, so here’s the breakdown of the submissions we received over two months. All statements are rounded numbers; the charts are more exact.

1. We received twice as many Short Story submissions as Flash submissions.

2. We received 15% more fantasy submissions than science fiction.

3. We received a third more submissions from men than from women.

4. Women submitted twice as much fantasy as science fiction.

5. Men submitted 25% more science fiction than fantasy.

6. We received almost exactly the same number of fantasy submissions from men and women; we received twice as many science fiction submissions from men than from women.

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Comments

[sophy_zs]

I meant to submit a story, but when I got it back from my crit partners I realized it was over the word limit.

[deirdre]

We actually had a couple of submissions slightly over the limit (but when they rounded to the nearest 100 words, they weren't over).

The limit for the short story was selected based on number of pages it was estimated it would add to the program book and the cost for that, so being over really was more problematic.