The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection

[ellen_datlow]

Today is its pub date!! Here's the Table of Contents (not in order)
La Profonde - Terry Dowling
Sob in the Silence - Gene Wolfe
A Pig’s Whisper - Margo Lanagan
Winkie - Margo Lanagan
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
Father Muerte and the Flesh - Lee Battersby
The Muldoon - Glen Hirshberg
Ballade (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
My Babe, My Babe (poem) - William Hope Hodgson
31/10 - Stephen Volk
Messages - Brett Alexander Savory
Raphael - Stephen Graham Jones
The Last to be Found - Christopher Harman
The Box - Stephen Gallagher
Landfill - Joyce Carol Oates
The Churring - Nicholas Royle
First Kisses From Beyond the Grave - Nik Houser
The Extraordinary Limits of Darkness - Simon Clark
Drowning Palmer - Sarah Monette
Dead Sea Fruit - Kaaron Warren
Dog Person - Scott Nicholson
Tell (poem) - Nathalie Anderson
Is Rain My Bearskin? (poem) - Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Yep, I Said Camel (poem) - Josh Bell
Femaville - Paul Di Filippo
The Night Whiskey - Jeffrey Ford
The Good Ones Are Already Taken - Ben Fountain
Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Becoming the Villainess (poem) - Jeannine Hall Gailey
Halfway House - Frances Hardinge
A Fearful Symmetry - Minsoo Kang
In the House of the Seven Librarians - Ellen Klages
Cup and Table - Tim Pratt
Journey into the Kingdom - M. Rickert
A Siege of Cranes - Benjamin Rosenbaum
Another Word for Map is Faith - Christopher Rowe
Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter - Geoff Ryman
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery - John Schoffstall
Lionflower Hedge - Ira Sher
La Fee Verte - Delia Sherman
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Directions - Caleb Wilson

And of course, I'm deep into reading for #21!

Comments

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hi Orrin,
Below is how your work gets considered (Basically, ask your publisher to send me it). I posted a list of the anthologies I've received so far in 2007 so if your work is in an anthology, you can check downstream in that post. I get most magazines that anyone would have heard of but of course, I might miss a few. If not sure, you can always query.
I'll email you about the Poe story separately. (don't worry about the formality)...

Summer 2007

I co-edit the multi-award winning anthology series The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press) with Kelly Link & Gavin Grant. We are now reading for the 21st volume, which will include all material published in 2007.
I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark thrillers, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2007. Submission deadline for stories is December 15th 2007. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. If a magazine, anthology, or collection you’re in or you edit is coming out by December 31st, you can send me galleys or manuscripts so that I can judge the stories in time. No email submissions. I strongly suggest that authors check with their publishers that they are sending review copies out to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.

There are summations of "the year in horror," and "the year in fantasy" in the front of each volume. These include novels, nonfiction, art books, and in my section, "odds and ends"-- material that doesn't fit anywhere else but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I have to be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for this section is January 30th, 2008.
Ellen Datlow
YBFH #21
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

Kelly Link & Gavin Grant
176 Prospect Avenue
Northampton, MA 01060

Kelly & Gavin cover fantasy and I cover horror. If you consider something both, send a copy to each of us. We do not confer on our choices.

****I do not want to receive manuscripts from authors of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive regularly (like Interzone, The Third Alternative, Cemetery Dance, Subterranean, Postscripts, Weird Tales, F&SF, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don't have or can’t get that anthology or collection. What I would prefer is if you contact your publisher and ask him/her to send me the magazine or book.
And please do not send a SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. If you want to confirm that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived. For stories that appear on the web, please send me (or have the publisher send me) print-outs of your story.

[orrin.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I'll contact my publishers and ensure that they're doing their bit!