We are pleased to share a new addition to the editorial team: ZZ Claybourne. Ziggy (aka Clarence) will be taking over our nonfiction editing duties while Shana DuBois takes a temporary leave of absence. Many readers will already know Ziggy through a couple of...
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Call for Submissions: Indigenous Futurists Special Issue
Call for Submissions: Guest editor Allison Mills is reading for the Apex Magazine Indigenous Futurists issue (Oct. 2021). If you're an Indigenous author, please visit the portal at: https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/apex-magazine-indigenous-futurists....
Apex Magazine Adds Two Associate Editors
Our team is growing! Apex Magazine welcomes two new part-time associate editors: Marissa Van Uden and Rebecca Schibler! Marissa Van Uden joined Apex Magazine as a slush reader in October, 2020. Her editing credits include Amazon #1 bestsellers, award-winners, and...
Bid on a Critique & Zoom Session with Our Editor-in-Chief
Our editor-in-chief (Jason Sizemore) is one of a number of industry professionals offering critiques and Zoom sessions via a blind auction to raise money for Worldbuilders.org. Critique and Zoom session with Jason Sizemore:...
Issue 123
EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason Sizemore FICTION The Life & Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer by A.K. HudsonThis Is the Moment, Or One of Them by Mari NessThrow Rug by Aurelius Raines IIMishpokhe and Ash by Sydney Rossman-ReichAll...
Words For Thought Columnist A.C. Wise Up For Ignyte Award
Our short fiction reviews contributing editor A.C. Wise has written 37 entries in her well-regarded Words for Thought series. Today she can add award-nominated reviewer to her biography. The FIYAHCON 2021 committee has announced the finalists for the 2021 Ignyte...
Editor-in-Chief To Be Remote Panelist for Tulkon 2021 This Weekend
Hey Apex Magazine fans, I wanted to give you a heads-up that I will be a virtual panelist for Tulkon 2021. The event is physically occurring in Tulsa, OK, but due to the pandemic, much of the convention will be happening online. Here is all the information you need if...
Apex Magazine Steps into Genre Book Reviews
We're pleased to bring a new feature to our readers soon. Starting with issue 124 (July, 2021), each regular issue will contain two genre book reviews from our rotating list of staff reviewers. Our staff reviewers include: Lesley ConnerAndrea JohnsonTracy...
Content Warning Index for Issue 122
Starting with issue 123, Apex will include content warnings for all fiction that appears in the eBook edition. Issue 122 does not contain these warnings, so this post will serve as our CW index. Content warnings will continue to be available for all new online fiction...
Hustling & Bustling! What’s Coming Up.
Before we say anything else, we want to thank you for all of your support. It means the world to us. We're going to keep pushing to bring you more content and more ways to engage with Apex Magazine. We plenty in the works, so let's get on with it. First, we wanted to...