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Because castles made of sand fall into the sea. Eventually. Jimi Hendrix There will always be those who build without looking closely at the construction materials used because, like any...
Jimi Hendrix Sang It
Because castles made of sand fall into the sea. Eventually. Jimi Hendrix There will always be those who build without looking closely at the construction materials used because, like any...
On January 29th, A.M. Hounchell was trending on Twitter after the author and media personality delivered this piece of "harsh writing advice." In the spirit of the Make Art Not...
101 Softly-Delivered Writing Lessons
On January 29th, A.M. Hounchell was trending on Twitter after the author and media personality delivered this piece of "harsh writing advice." In the spirit of the Make Art Not...
Stories are good; stories are dangerous. We know this, if from nothing else, then from stories themselves. Stories save Scheherazade; stories drive Don Quixote mad. How do we tell the...
Trapped In Stories
Stories are good; stories are dangerous. We know this, if from nothing else, then from stories themselves. Stories save Scheherazade; stories drive Don Quixote mad. How do we tell the...
Five days ago, on Tuesday, I fell ill. I know the day because I had dinner with a group of doctor friends in Orlando whom I hadn’t seen in a...
Story-Less: A Forethought
Five days ago, on Tuesday, I fell ill. I know the day because I had dinner with a group of doctor friends in Orlando whom I hadn’t seen in a...
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. Phil Jackson, Legendary NBA Coach Behind the scenes of every successful magazine is...
Apex Magazine Slush Reader Roundtable
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. Phil Jackson, Legendary NBA Coach Behind the scenes of every successful magazine is...
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath Back in the pre-COVID era of our lives, I often attended writers conventions. Invariably, over the course of...
Why Do You Keep Rejecting Me
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath Back in the pre-COVID era of our lives, I often attended writers conventions. Invariably, over the course of...
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.Pablo Picasso As managing editor of Apex Magazine and general Apex slush wrangler, I have fielded more...
Submissions 101
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.Pablo Picasso As managing editor of Apex Magazine and general Apex slush wrangler, I have fielded more...