Janice Galloway is my favourite writer so I was thrilled when we were able to launch our magazine with her superb story, Peak. She recently published a new coll...
Dear friends,
We are still playing catch-up from last week's deluge, but we've made a lot of progress already. Here are the numbers from week 8 of our existe...
The Forge Anthology is now available!
Introduced by prize-winning novelist Kerry Hudson and edited by Rebecca Reynolds, The Forge Anthology is a collection of ...
Dear friends,
We saw a dramatic increase in submissions in week 7. Unfortunately, this coincided with some individual scheduling difficulties. Writing deadli...
We took a week off from posting submission stats to reflect on our first month but we have kept track of the numbers. Here is what the last two weeks looked lik...
In the fourth week of our existence we saw the following numbers:
Carryover: 29
New submissions received: 71 (fiction 61, nonfiction 10)
Sent to our curren...
For the curious, our week 3 stats:
Carryover: 47
New submissions received: 61 (fiction 53, nonfiction 8 )
Sent to the editors-of-the-month: 8 (2 were decli...
All our editors are writers so we’re familiar with the peculiar pleasure of browsing submission statistics. XYZ journal is really hard to get into whereas ABC i...
We here at the Forge Literary Magazine are big on transparency. Here are the submission stats from the first week of our existence. Thanks so much for giving us...
A little while ago, I received a payment for a story I published with matchbook. It was a $20 bill accompanied by a neatly typewritten (yes, with an actual type...
