The year in PANK

2009 ended, I’m told. Whew. For PANK, here’s what was.

PANK 3 sold out, though “sold out” is a bit ‘o reassuring obfuscation. We did run out of copies and for the first time in our brief 3 years sold more than we gave away. Huzzah!

PANK 3 appeared in bookstores, on Amazon, and in Kindle format in 2009. That beats a closet full of copies any day.

PANK Magazine online logged almost a half million hits. Hardly the Huffington Post, but what the hey.

Adjusted for something more meaningful (I learned all about bounce rates, unique visitors, etc. in 2009!), and including print copies,  PANK Magazine had more than 65,000 readers in 149 countries, including 232 souls from the soveirgn territory of Not Set (which I can only hope resembles Htrae in appropriately cubist ways).

PANK received approximately 5,000 submissions in 2009, of which we accepted a little more than 300. This gave us, according to my most excellent arithmetic skills, an approximate acceptance rate of 6%. Whatever that means. Figuring this out gave me a headache.

PANK held a contest and chose winners and selected its first chapbook.

And finally, in 2009, people said nice things about PANK, like this,  this, and this.

As for 2010, it’s anyones guess, though I’m seriously thinking of adopting a second dog and naming it Pank…