It just struck me that the new primarily online NT has been open for a little more than an official year now. In lieu of celebrating, I'd like to share submission stats with you so you have a better idea of what we've accepted over this last year and  since publishing Mary Miller's "Watermelon" as our first Firebox Fiction feature. We get lots of traffic from Duotrope—and appreciate it—but those stats aren't the whole story, at all. These are entirely accurate, database hoohah-driven NT stats, baby, as of 4:32 PM Eastern time, though all of our stats are in Western/Pacific time, because that's where our server is.

Total submissions since 4/1/07: 3015

This includes 88 pending submissions with an average wait time of 10.0 days.

Minimum report time: 0 days
Average report time:  12.1 days
Maximum report time: 94 days (and that is SO unusual I can't tell you)

Submissions Type Breakdown
Fiction: 1140
Firebox Fiction: 884
Poetry: 1079

Most recent response sent: 12:15 (western time)
Responses have been sent for submissions as recent as: 06/05 06:14
The oldest submission pending a response is from 05/01 17:44

Overall Responses

Acceptances: 4.6% (17.8 day(s) avg. per acceptance)
Rejections: 95.4% (11.8 day(s) avg. per rejection) | 24.2% personal, 75.8% form

Total Fiction Responses

Acceptances: 2.4% (36.5 day(s) avg. per acceptance)
Rejections: 97.6% (18.6 day(s) avg. per rejection) | 30.9% personal, 69.1% form

We have sent 1099 responses since re-opening 4/1/2007 (not including 42 pending response(s) with an avg. wait of 9.9 days).

min report: 0 day(s)
avg report: 19.0 day(s)
max report: 94 day(s)

Total Poetry Responses

Accuracy

We have sent 1072 responses since re-opening 4/1/2007 (not including 7 pending response(s) with an avg. wait of 0.0 days).

min report: 0 day(s)
avg report: 5.1 day(s)
max report: 44 day(s)

Responses

Acceptances: 6.1% (5.7 day(s) avg. per acceptance)
Rejections: 93.9% (5.0 day(s) avg. per rejection) | 13.7% personal, 86.3% form

Total Firebox Fiction

 Accuracy

We have sent 844 responses since re-opening 4/1/2007 (not including 40 pending response(s) with an avg. wait of 11.8 days).

min report: 0 day(s)
avg report: 12.1 day(s)
max report: 69 day(s)

Responses

Acceptances: 5.7% (24.2 day(s) avg. per acceptance)
Rejections: 94.3% (11.4 day(s) avg. per rejection) | 28.4% personal, 71.6% form

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