Fireside Fiction’s report,#BlackSpecFic, finds less than 2% of SF stories published in 2015 were by black writers The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, or institutional,personal, universal” racism, or according to a fresh report that found less than 2% of more than 2000 SF stories published final year were by black writers.
The report,published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. With the bulk of the industry based in the US, and more than half of all speculative fiction publications the report considered did not publish a single original story by a black author. “The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.%,” says the report.
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Source: theguardian.com