Draft:Submission Grinder

Submission Grinder is a free, web-based service for writers to track their written works--chiefly short stories, novellettes and novellas, and poetry--and search for candidate story markets focused primarily on speculative fiction.

History
Founded in 2013 by David Steffen and Anthony Sullivan, Submission Grinder manages a database of registered user's titles, story markets, and logging story submissions to markets. Commonly referred to as "The Grinder," it has over nine thousand registered users and tracks more than thirteen thousand story markets.

Submission Grinder's market data is used by speculative fiction publishers and researchers to analyze the state of the speculative fiction publishing industry. .

Numerous publication markets and writing help sites   recommend Submission Grinder to authors wishing to submit work. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) distributes the Submission Grinder's monthly newsletter containing current, upcoming, and closing market submission windows.

Services
The Submission Grinder tracks submission dates, hold dates, market submission statuses (e.g. pending, accepted, withdrawn).

Nominations and awards
Submission Grinder won FIYAH Magazine's 2022 Ignyte Award in the category of Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

Operations and funding
The Submission Grinder is operated by Diabolical Plots, a short fiction publishing market. It is free to users, receiving funding from The Long List Anthology series sales, subscriptions, and donations from individuals and organizations.