Black Static

I made a New Year Resolution to start blogging here again on a semi-regular basis, though invariably my New Year Resolutions fail within a month or so at the best.

I thought I'd kick off with one of my occasional overviews of what and who Black Static has published.

With the release of double issue #80/81 Black Static has presented readers with a grand total of 457 stories (excluding the 20 flash fictions that featured in #17/18 as part of the Campaign for Real Fear).

Of those 457 stories 144½ (32%) have had a female by-line (for the statistical purists, that's 143 stories written by women, and three that were co-written with men).

213 writers have had fiction appear in the magazine and 80 (38%) of them have been women.

The ten most frequent contributors to the magazine are:-

• Ray Cluley - 16 stories

• Ralph Robert Moore – 13

• Carole Johnstone – 12½

• Steve Rasnic Tem – 11

• Stephen Hargadon – 10

• Tim Casson - 9

• Steven J. Dines – 9

• Tim Lees – 9

• Simon Avery - 8

• James Cooper - 8

• Daniel Kaysen - 8

   

I'd like to further break it down by nationality, story length etc., but life's too short.