Awards and Nominations

Hugo Award

• Best Semiprozine Nominee (2014) -- Apex Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, and Jason Sizemore
• Best Short Story Nominee (2014) -- "If You Were a Dinosaur My Love" by Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, issue 43)
• Best Semiprozine Nominee (2013) -- Apex Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, and Jason Sizemore
• Best Semiprozine Nominee (2012) -- Apex Magazine edited by Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Thomas, and Jason Sizemore

Nebula Award

• Short Fiction Winner -- "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, issue 56)
• Short Fiction Winner -- "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, issue 43)
• Short Fiction Nominee -- "Ghosts of New York" by Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
• Short Fiction Nominee -- "The Green Book" by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine, issue 18)
• Short Fiction Nominee -- "I Remember the Future" by Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future)

World Fantasy Award

• Short Fiction Nominee -- "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, issue 56)
• Short Fiction Nominee -- "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, issue 43)

Shirley Jackson Awards

• Nomination (Best Short Fiction): Chikodili Emelumadu • “Candy Girl” • Apex Magazine 66

Aurealis Award

• Best Young Adult Short Fiction Nominee -- "Falling Leaves" by Liz Argall (Apex Magazine issue 60)
• Short Fiction Nominee -- "Lollo" by Martin Livings (Close Encounters of the Urban Kind)
• Short Fiction Winner -- "Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens" by Peter M. Ball (The Book of Apex, Volume 1)

Stoker Award

• Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Winner -- "Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy A. Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Superior Achievement in Nonfiction Nominee -- Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
• Superior Achievement in Nonfiction Winner -- To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Superior Achievement in an Anthology Nominee -- Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
• Superior Achievement in a Collection Winner -- Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill
• Superior Achievement in a Collection Nominee -- Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
• Superior Achievement in an Anthology Nominee -- Aegri Somnia edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth

Million Writers Award

• Third Place -- "The Green Book" by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine issue 18)

Black Quill Award

• Best Related Work Nominee -- To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Best Anthology Nominee -- Dark Faith by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
• Best Collection Nominee -- Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel

WSFA Small Press Award

• Winner -- "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, issue 56)
• Award Finalist -- "The Day of Flaming Motorcycles" by Catherynne M. Valente (Dark Faith)
• Award Finalist -- "Queen of Stars" by Bryn Sparks (Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest)

The Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award

• Award Finalist -- "Trees of Bone" by Daliso Chaponda (Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest)

Cóyotl Award

• Nomination (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “Jackalope Wives” • Apex Magazine 56

Rhysling Award

• Winner (Short Form Poem): Amal El-Mohtar • “Turning the Leaves” • Apex Magazine 55
• Nomination (Long Form Poem): Catherynne M. Valente • “A Great Clerk of Necromancy” • Apex Magazine 50
• Nomination (Short Form Poem): Amal El-Mohtar • “No Poisoned Comb” • Apex Magazine 35
• Nomination (Short Form Poem): Tim Pratt • “Lion Heart” • Apex Magazine 30
• Nomination (Short Form Poem): Elizabeth McClellan • “Down Cycles” • Apex Magazine 27
• Nomination (Long Form Poem): Elizabeth McClellan • “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos” • Apex Magazine 24
• Nomination (Long Form Poem): Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace • “The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves” • Apex Magazine 22
• Nomination (Short Form Poem): Nicole Korhner-Stace • “The Witch’s Heart” • Apex Magazine 21
• Nomination (Long Form Poem): Elizabeth R. McClellan • “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” • Apex Magazine 17
• 3rd Place, Short Form Poem: C.S.E. Cooney • “Dogstar Men” • Apex Magazine 15

Dead Letters Award

• Nominee for Best Zombie Anthology -- The Zombie Feed, Vol. 1 by Jason Sizemore

Chesley Award

• Carly B. Sorge -- Apex Magazine Issue #28 cover art

Best Horror of the Year -- Ellen Datlow

• Reprinted -- Magdala Amygdala -- Lucy A. Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- Rattenkőnig -- Douglas F. Warrick (Plow the Bones)
• Honorable Mention -- Abomination Rises on Filthy Wings -- Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, July 2013)
• Honorable Mention -- A Strange Form of Life -- Laird Barron (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- Waiting for Beauty -- Marie Brennan (Apex Magazine, August 2012)
• Honorable Mention -- The Birth of Pegasus -- K. Tempest Bradford (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- Fin de Siècle -- Gemma Files (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- The Angel Seems -- Jeffrey Ford (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- The Big Blue Peacock -- Nick Mamatas (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- Decomposition -- Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, May 2012)
• Honorable Mention -- Kill the Buddha -- Elizabeth Twist (Dark Faith: Invocations)
• Honorable Mention -- My Body, Her Canvas -- A.C. Wise (Apex Magazine, February 2012)
• Honorable Mention -- Cue: Change -- Chesya Burke (Let's Play White)
• Honorable Mention -- What She Saw When They Flew Away -- Chesya Burke (Let's Play White)
• Honorable Mention -- For My Next Trick, I'll Need a Volunteer -- Gary A. Braunbeck (Dark Faith)
• Honorable Mention -- Chimeras & Grotesquess -- Matt Cardin (Dark Faith)
• Honorable Mention -- Little Gods -- Sara Genge (Dark Faith: Last Rites)
• Honorable Mention -- The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ -- Nick Mamatas (Dark Faith: Last Rites)
• Honorable Mention -- You Dream -- Ekaterina Sedia (Dark Faith)
• Honorable Mention -- The Taste of Memories -- Nate Southard (Dark Faith: Last Rites)
• Honorable Mention -- 50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire -- Pamela K. Taylor (Apex Magazine, November 2010)
• Honorable Mention -- The Puma -- Theodore Goss (Apex Magazine, March 2009)
• Honorable Mention -- Waiting for Jakie -- Barbara Krasnoff (Apex Magazine, April 2009)
• Honorable Mention -- Cai and Her Ten-Thousand Husbands -- Gord Sellar (Apex Magazine, February 2009)
• Honorable Mention -- Cinderers -- Nir Yaniv (The Apex Book of World SF)
• Honorable Mention -- Post Apocalypse -- James Walton Langolf (Apex Magazine, January 2008)
• Honorable Mention -- In the Seams -- Andrew C. Porter (Apex Magazine, July 2008)
• Honorable Mention -- Blakenjel -- Lavie Tidhar (Apex Magazine, October 2008)
• Honorable Mention -- Covenant -- Lavie Tidhar (Apex Digest #12)
• Honorable Mention -- A Splash of Color -- Todd Vandemark (Apex Magazine, November 2008)