Essays in the Publishing Taught Me: A SFWA Anthology Project Series

• Working with Your Career’s “Track Changes”: Advice from One BIPOC Editor by Diana M. Pho – Published on 4/3/2024
• Take Editing Humor Seriously. Please. by James Beamon – Published on 3/6/2024
• Inside the Fiction Editor’s Mind: Does the Writer’s Identity Matter?  by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – Published on 2/7/2024

News:

4/2/2024

We are pleased to announce that our online anthology Publishing Taught Me now has a full roster of contributors! In addition to currently published essays by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and James Beamon, we have essays upcoming from Diana Pho, Erika Hardison, Kanishk Tantia, Nelly Garcia-Rosas, Yoon Ha Lee, and Emily Jiang. Their essays will be posted on the first Wednesday of each month through September.

Read the announcement on the full roster here.

The call for submissions for four additional essays has been closed. Authors of the four accepted pitches will be notified by 6 p.m. Pacific Time on February 22. The completed essays should be approximately 700 to 2000 words long.

Payment will be a flat $300 for each accepted, edited, and finalized essay. Deadlines, contracts, and revisions will be forthcoming for each essay. Authors will be invited to participate in a 2024 online panel on the general topic of BIPOC experiences in SFFH publishing.

The Publishing Taught Me project is overseen by multiple award-winning editor Nisi Shawl and two editorial interns, Somto Ihezue and Zhui Ning Chang.