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...

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...

Gorgeous and haunting and yes, very close to home

APEX MAGAZINE OCTOBER ISSUE COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉🎃🌳 Starring the whimsical, Autumnal comfort of "Hedge Grandmother" by @natasailincic.bsky.social! 🎨🖼️ Cover Design by Justin Stewart. For more information on our upcoming issue, read "Apex in October 2025" on www.patreon.com/posts/apex-i...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! 📢📢📢 We're hosting an AMA here with Apex Magazine Editor and EIC of Crepuscular @retreasure.bsky.social TOMORROW!! 📚✨ Got any writing, editing, or publishing questions burning a hole in your pocket? Reply to this post with your question, and Becky may select yours to answer!

Our 2026 Kickstarter page is live! Be sure to click that "Notify me on launch" button so you don't miss out on any of our backer rewards, as some will be extremely limited! ⏰ Visit our Kickstarter page HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

follow us here on bsky if: BONES you have them + like / RT if deep down, underneath it all you are SKELETON or a future ghost

Are you the proud owner of some Apex swag, or have one (or several!) of our titles? 👕📚 Snap a photo and send it to [email protected] to be entered into a draw for some free new merch! 📸 Contest closes on Aug. 26th, so don't miss out! Details below! ⬇️

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

This was a joy to write. Spoilers for my Analog story within!

It's time to announce the August flash fiction theme! Submerge yourself in some haunting jellyfish lofi because...🐙🐋🫧 August's flash fiction theme is DEEP SEA! 🪼🦑 Heat vents! Whale fall! Doomed sub voyages! Send it all! Submissions are open until August 31st! www.patreon.com/posts/135291...

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

So excited about this week's Electric Sheep guest, Sheree Renée Thomas! The selected stories will knock the breath out of you. @shereereneethomas.bsky.social @electricsheepsf.bsky.social

A great-looking project with only human art. Definitely worth supporting! 🔥🙌

Guidelines for Saros #5 have arrived! We open on August 22nd for stories 500-2500 words in length centered on the theme of Sound/Silence. Payment will be $25 CAD for both originals and reprints. The period will stay open until we've collected 111 subs. Full details at sarossf.com/submissions/

"The Marks We Leave" by @mianbell.bsky.social (6,768 words) — Rylek seeks to assuage his pain of the loss of his lover by saving some of the people in the simulation on which he works. A compassionate exploration and portrayal of deep grief. (My rating: 5/5)

My every-couple-months reminder: FF is always bringing in new submissions readers. Details in the quoted thread!

SFWA educates authors about industry matters through many venues, including Writer Beware®, a service helmed by @victoriastrauss.com. It is a gift to be in dialogue as writers and other industry participants about the issues that matter most to our genre's future thriving. Read WB's latest here:

celebrate a small victory with me? Analog has been a dream since I was a wee tot 🥺 very pleased this story landed with @analogsf.bsky.social

Rereading Didion this sweltering summer afternoon… “The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.” Oh yes… compulsion… hello 🙋🏻‍♂️🙈

This week went by so fast, it's making our heads spin! 😵‍💫 There's just TWO WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for July is CAROUSEL. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/posts/july-f...

gorgeous, lyrical, the palpable complexities of intimate relationships, nature vs nurture, (aikido! 🥰🥋) and wow what an ending… pls read this lovely tale by @tiatashiro.bsky.social

i mightttt have a story in this issue 👀👀