As Niall mentioned a handful of posts down, we are closed to submissions for the month of December (just like the Fiction Department). As this was meant to be my next month on the reading-subs rota, I will now be reading next in January 2013, so please note that I will simply be batching submissions that were sent between December 1st and December 5th into January.

We apologize for the inconvenience of not announcing this sooner, but we only just realized that, given that the average time between acceptance and publication ranges from four to nine months, we really need to close for a month in order to close the gap a little!

And, finally, a belated acceptance announcement:

"Schrödinger's Tree," by Madeline Sebastian Burtenshaw