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ByRebecca E. Treasure

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Apex in August 2024

Discord Happenings As always, we have a fun community on our Discord, offering critique swaps, co-writing opportunities, and general community support for writers. (Rejectomancy, anyone?) Patreon Exclusives On our Patreon, we have an exciting lineup of exclusives for our Patrons…

ByLeah Ning

Book Review: It’s Only a Game by Kelsea Yu

It’s Only a Game is a YA thriller that pulls you in immediately with its rich characters and complex plot.

ByLesley Conner

Unpublished Author Submissions Call

What does the unpublished authors submission period mean for regular submissions? We will close to regular submissions during August and September. If, after going through all of the submissions we currently have and those we receive during the unpublished authors…

ByT.K. Rex

Growing Swirling Clouds

They had been too frail to make the one-way journey to the planet’s surface. They had all been left in my care for their final years, and Margery was the last.

ByChristopher Mark Rose

Build Your (Weird) Community

Under the surface, creating and receiving art are two halves of something larger—a single, connected arc.

ByAkis Linardos

What is Conjured Shall Vanish

When the new emperor took over, he executed all witches and demanded all village women smile as we observed them hanging on the gallows.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Stephen M.A.

My goal was to highlight this collision between a small town’s insistent internal mythology of removal, and an equally insistent external reality bearing down on us all.

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Snap Judgment Episode 11

Apex Magazine is excited to present SNAP JUDGMENT Episode 11 of our rapid-fire, live-streaming critique series. Every quarter, industry professionals Lesley Conner, Rebecca E Treasure, and a special guest offer live feedback on the first pages of anonymous submissions, which are read aloud by our host and narrator.

ByStephen M.A.

The Owl

When the owl came to me, its eight frosted talons gripped our continents, and the atmosphere lapped its ankles like a tide pool.