The story bomb

Author Charles Finlay, in response to complaints that The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction doesn't publish enough female authors, proposes that female authors bombard the magazine's editors with at least 100 story submissions on August 18th of this year.

"Bring it on," says one of the magazine's assistant editors. Others -- to play devils's advocate for a moment -- may consider it a dubious experiment and wonder whether it's a good idea to make the editorial staff, consciously or unconsciously, add awareness of this kind of concerted effort to their selection process.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Note: more discussion here, here, here, here.