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Free yourself from the Canva mines ⛏️🖼️ We're offering a totally new product only on our Kickstarter through the month of October: an author graphics bundle of fully customizable Canva templates for speculative fiction authors! 🎨 check below for details! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Hi folks! If you're having some trouble submitting to us right now, the Moksha site is currently having technical difficulties. We're keeping an eye on it and will post an update when it's back online. Thank you for your patience!

I just backed @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 on @kickstarter.com! Apex is such an amazing cornerstone of the SFFH community. If you are able, I encourage you to pledge support as well to keep their fantastic work going next year.

Drinking coffee out of my @apexmag.bsky.social mug this morning, which is the perfect reminder that they're running a Kickstarter right now to support another year of fabulous art, fiction, essays, and reviews! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The Apex Magazine ( @apexmag.bsky.social ) 2026 Kickstarter is live! Help fund 4 issues of dark speculative fiction. Join the campaign and support the strange! horrortree.com/apex-magazin... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmReading

There’s no fancy badge for this, but Apex is also a project I love! Please check out their Kickstarter and help us all get another year of Apex:

Hi folks! If you're having some trouble submitting to us right now, the Moksha site is currently having technical difficulties. We're keeping an eye on it and will post an update when it's back online. Thank you for your patience!

25% THERE!! 🍾🎉 That means we're only 5% away from opening to NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS for the first time EVER! Thank you all so much for your support 💜👽 🌙🐄 Come fly to the moon with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Want to send us a story this month? Stand out from the slush with Apex Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lesley's Rules! ✍️✔️ We're looking for stories that blur sci-fi and fantasy, with that iconic dark Apex edge. Ready to submit? Visit our submission portal here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/.../apex.../...

Apex publishes my very first piece in this month's issue! Support a great project today.

Always worth supporting this badass magazine:

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction. My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

I am truly honored that Apex Magazine and @lesleyconner.bsky.social is reading my story! Being in Apex was a dream goal! ❤️

Our next milestone celebration will be opening to nonfiction pitches at 30% of our funding goal! That's right! Apex is opening to nonfiction submissions! I am really excited to see how this works out and can't wait to open to submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Keep an eye out for details for our first Story Time with Lesley. I will be reading "And She Had Been So Reasonable" by @raebolt.bsky.social . This story was originally published in Apex Magazine issue 147, and was a finalist for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 2024.

Wow! the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter is over 20% funded in the first 24 hours! Meaning we've hit two of our milestone celebrations! I just sent out "Piglet Delivers" by @mariahaskins.com to all of our Kickstarter backers. I think you all will love this dark story.

We've unlocked our 20% goal in just 24 HOURS!! 🎉🎉🎉 @lesleyconner.bsky.social will be doing a LIVE STORYTIME of @raebolt.bsky.social's “And She Had Been So Reasonable.” Tears guaranteed! Don't miss it! 💧📖📺 Back our Kickstarter and make Lesley cry (with joy!) at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

It has crawled forth, in its shimmering darkness, and seeks the true source, the Apex, of dark glory. Support the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Support the Apex Kickstarter and you will get early access to my story "Piglet Delivers", set for publication in the magazine next year!

I just backed Apex Magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com @apexmag.bsky.social

It's time for our annual haunting of your social media to fund our future publications! Please share, boost, celebrate, cheer, and if you can, back.

For the record, I waited until the number went up to 73. Now go support @apexmag.bsky.social's Kickstarter!

I'd like to point out that because we're a very serious magazine staffed and supported only by consummate professionals, we were stalled here for like 30 minutes because no one wanted to make the funny number go away

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Apex is (in my completely unbiased opinion) one of the best mags out there. Throw them some support!

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I just backed @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

It's time to help Apex funding their issues for 2026! In this dire times of exploitative AI tools and art having to "prove" its relevance to the public, it's almost an act of defiance to see a SFF magazine thriving. So let's help this happen! They have several stretch goals going on too.

With the launch of the Kickstarter, Apex is open again to short fiction submissions! We're looking for dark speculative fiction stories up to 9,000 words long. Pay is $0.08 per word. You can submit your stories here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

HOLY WOW! The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is a Project We Love! 😍 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

The Apex Magazine kickstarter is alive! Help keep this amazing magazine going and support short fiction. This team works so hard, fueled mostly on passion, so anything you can give to support them and the writers and artists featured is massively appreciated 🫶

Back Apex for strange surreal and incredibly beautiful fiction!

HAPPY APEX DAAAAAY! Support short fiction! Support a wonderful magazine! Let’s get Apex funded!

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter is only $361 away from our first milestone! At 10% of funding, all our Kickstarter Backers will get exclusive early access to a story slated to be published in 2026. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I just backed Apex Magazine (@apexmag.bsky.social) 2026 on Kickstarter, and you should, too, because they're great! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

HAPPY KICKSTARTER DAY!! 🎉🎉🎉 Kick(start) the first day of Spooky Month with us and come check out the cool stuff we've got planned for you!! 🎃✨ 👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

This post from the folks at @apexmag.bsky.social is great, it's a tricky time and we want nothing more than a fair deal from management, we are not asking for a boycott. Let management know directly how this impacts you, and join us on the virtual picket line in the following days

You can also help by writing to Kickstarter management in support of Kickstarter United and their demands. We would love the fabulous writers who support us to lend their talents to the union and help them gain a fair contract! 🖤 Click HERE to send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The Apex team has been made aware of Kickstarter United's strike announcement. Here's how we're moving forward on our upcoming campaign, and how we plan to support the strike. Read our full post here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-... Support the strike here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ki...

My latest Words for Thought column for @apexmag.bsky.social is now available to read online, discussing work by @kellyrobson.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, Jocelyn Szczcepaniak-Gillice, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @stevetoase.bsky.social. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Apex stories are eerie and unsettling, or downright terrifying. We aren't afraid to blur the edges between what is sci-fi or fantasy, all while keeping the dark edge that makes an Apex story.

There are a lot of sci-fi and fantasy magazines out there, and each one has it's own niche of what they're looking for. For Apex, that's dark speculative fiction and that informs every publishing choice we make. We rarely publish straight horror, but nearly everything we publish has a horror slant.

I don't have hard numbers to back it up, but I feel like Apex is seeing more submissions from authors outside of the US, as well as more subs from newer writers. Both of which are AWESOME! I love reading stories with different and/or fresh perspectives.

It's the last day of September already?? goddamn this month went by in a flash 💥🔥 Today's the LAST DAY to submit your flash fiction! The theme for September was CANDLELIGHT. You have until midnight tonight to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

"I’m looking at uneasy stories, the kind that leave you with the creeping feeling of something unsettling happening just off the page." 🌘📚 New short fiction review by @acwise.bsky.social: "Words for Thought" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

The @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter launches tomorrow! Will you help us fund 2026 and kickoff another 20 years of strange, surreal, shocking, and beautiful short fiction? I hope you will! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Thank you for the feature, @apexmag.bsky.social !

Ever had a question that you've been burning to ask me? Today's the day! Whether you want to know the nitty gritty of publishing Apex Magazine, have a question about my reading history, or want to know my favorite horror movie, I'm answering all your questions. Ask me anything.

Happy Kickstarter Day to our friends at Otherside!! We love seeing more queer SFF in the world, and if you do too, then go support this amazing publication! 🌈🪐 (also maybe keep an eye out for a collab later this month just saying 👀👀👀)