DIVERSITY IN SMALL PRESS
This is great. Michael is working so hard to get this right. It’s very encouraging. I’m also honored to be in quite a few of these anthologies—Chiral Mad 2, 3, and 4; Qualia Nous; and Prisms.
There has been a lot of discussion lately about female to male ratios within anthologies, and a lack of female presence and diversity in general. Lisa Morton, president of the Horror Writers Association, recently recapped a study from 2010 of Women in the Horror Small Press, which is around the time Written Backwards first started publishing anthologies. This got me thinking about my own projects over the years, so I put all the data I have into a spreadsheet.
My goal with these anthologies has always been to find new voices (the reason I started the press in the first place) and to place them alongside legends, no matter the individual. For the last five years, however, I have consciously widened my scope, reaching out to more diverse writers from all genres, hopefully to bring you some amazing books along the way.
Anyway, I encourage all small presses to…
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- Richard Thomas - 
This is interesting, Richard. I was aware that women—across genres—were with greater frequency submitting work, but I had no clue about actual stats. No, antho TOCs don’t reflect these rising numbers.
Exactly. Some fascinating and encouraging numbers here.