Welcome to March. This in-between time of a year is a good time to reflect as things either come back to growth and life in spring or begin to quiet themselves for the winter. Issue 143 is the perfect companion, and our ongoing events give us lots to look forward to. Join us!
Issue 143
Issue 143 will release on March 4. Cover art by Caroline Jamhour, original fiction by Nika Murphy, Hannah Yang, Renan Bernardo, Natasha King, and Leah Ning, flash by Andrew Kozma and Lyndsey Croal, essays by Shiv Ramdas and E.D.E. Bell, Marissa van Uden's interviews with authors Natasha King and Nika Murphy, and reprints from Christopher Caldwell and Eden Royce. A.C. Wise continues the wonderful Words for Thought short fiction review column, and we have our Holiday Horrors winner and runners-up. This is a rich, earthy issue with stories of plant body-horror and complex family relationships, perfect for this time of year.
Germination by Caroline Jamhour
Writing Classes with Apex
The Reach Your Apex initiative is our way of making the knowledge and skills of publishing professionals available to those individuals who are seeking to improve their literary craft. While a majority of our offerings target the craft of writing, we will intersperse our curriculum with workshops/webinars covering various topics about the art of editing and the business side of publishing. We launched a website dedicated to our classes and workshops, including on-demand recordings!
Coming up in March we have classes on fashion in speculative worlds, querying agents, anthology submissions, children in horror, and more.
You can find our current list of classes here. We also now offer pre-recorded on demand classes as well as critiques and query feedback!
Apex Flash Fiction
The Flash Fiction Contest for February 7-29—themed Falling Skies—will close on February 29. The theme for March 7-31 will be announced and will open to the public on March 7th for flash fiction submissions. Themes are chosen by Patrons at the end of the month and announced to Patrons on the 1st of each month. Submissions will be open to the public on the 7th of each month. Submissions close on the last day of the month at midnight (US Central Time).
The winner will be paid $0.08/word or $10, whichever is more. The winning story will appear on our Patreon as an exclusive and will be included in a forthcoming issue of Apex Magazine.
Discord Happenings
As always, we have 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 from the Authors of Issue 143. We'll have our usual interviews, critique opportunities, a recipe or two, and some story insights. Keep an eye on our Patreon!
Not a Patron? Join us for as little as $3/month to get access to these exclusives and the magazine in your inbox!
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