This page summarizes data found on original stories by black authors being published in science fiction and fantasy zines. A more detailed look per magazine

can be found on the second tab. More detailed notes on the median can be found on the third tab. "Instructions for filtering data on Google

Sheets," the fourth tab, is for viewing the data in a mode other than alphabetical order.

Cecily Kane and Weston Allen

This data was not entirely self-reported, as the task of contacting the authors in the magazines measured was too daunting. Self-reported

data was used whenever possible, but such data was not always findable or clear -- for example, no biographical information could be

found for two authors in Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction had a larger handful of authors for whom that was the case. We

assume that there is probably at least one false positive and/or false negative. We doubt that these existed in such numbers as to unduly

We used the population statistics for the U.S. rather than the world because, while nominally international, the SF/F zine market -- at least

the portion we are critiquing -- remains primarily U.S.-based. For the same reasons, we removed Omenana and Truancy from the data set.