Our readers have spoken!
Apex Publications Publisher Jason Sizemore and Apex Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas are pleased to announce that the voting has been tallied and reviewed. After having done so, we have determine that we have two winners!
Congratulations to Alethea Kontis (“Blood from Stone”) and Katharine Duckett (“Sexagesimal”). They are our inaugural winners of the Apex Magazine Short Story Readers' Poll, each receiving 165 votes.
Our 2012 poll had a total of 520 (!) different voters. About 1/3rd of those who voted did so in the last 24 hours.
About our winners:
New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a goddess, a force of nature, and a mess. She’s known for screwing up the alphabet, scolding vampire hunters, turning garden gnomes into mad scientists, and making sense out of fairy tales.
Alethea is the co-author of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter Companion, and penned the AlphaOops series of picture books. Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines. She has done multiple collaborations with Eisner winning artist J.K. Lee, including The Wonderland Alphabetand Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome. Her debut YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award in 2012.
Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea now lives in Northern Virginia with her Fairy Godfamily. She makes the best baklava you’ve ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.
You can find Princess Alethea online at: www.aletheakontis.com.
Read Alethea’s winning story “Blood from Stone”
Katharine Duckett recently returned from two years of teaching English in rural Kazakhstan, which provided her with all the post-apocalyptic imagery needed to complete the dystopian zombie novel she began while studying creative writing at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. She has interned for Small Beer Press and io9.com, and currently resides in New York City, where she works as assistant toSwordspoint author Ellen Kushner and The Freedom Maze author Delia Sherman.
You can find her on Twitter @hottmcawesome.
