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Ascension by P.L. McMillan. Apex Magazine, Issue 152.
"The line of poor, hungry, ragged people stretched out behind and before me. I shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t have to be here." 🗼🌇
New fiction today by @authorplm.bsky.social: "Ascension"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
A graphic showing the placeholder cover of Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, flanked by two red moon phases. www.apexbookcompany.com is written on the bottom.
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After the Blood Moon, a Red Day dawns...
Preorders for PLAGUE BIRDS: The Red Day Edition are OPEN! @jasonsanford.bsky.social returns with a special cover and new short story, "Little Fathers of Darkness." This is a Red Day you WON'T want to miss! ⏰
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...
Hey cuties! It's my birthday today 🦇 and I have a gift for YOU!
My story, Ascension, is available on Apex's blog -- are you ready for the climb? ❤️🖤
Click the link below 👁👄👁
A graphic showing the placeholder cover of Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, flanked by two red moon phases. www.apexbookcompany.com is written on the bottom.
🌑🌒🌓🌔🔴🌖🌗🌘🌑
After the Blood Moon, a Red Day dawns...
Preorders for PLAGUE BIRDS: The Red Day Edition are OPEN! @jasonsanford.bsky.social returns with a special cover and new short story, "Little Fathers of Darkness." This is a Red Day you WON'T want to miss! ⏰
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...
Marie Vibbert’s MULTITUDE explores the concept that we aren't the only intelligent life in the world, an idea which has long fascinated humanity. But if, in fact, aliens exist: what would they be like?
We would like you to write a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want! Write a fantasy, sci-fi, or horror microfiction piece up to 300 words.
Email the piece to darian@apexbookcompany.com. The top three will be voted on among Apex staff, and the winners will be published on the Apex blog, as well as sent an ARC of MULTITUDE and a keychain! Contest closes on March 9th.
We're hosting another microfiction contest to celebrate the upcoming release of @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod scifi MULTITUDE! ✍️🦑🪐 The theme is a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want!
02.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 20 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Ascension by P.L. McMillan. Apex Magazine, Issue 152.
"The line of poor, hungry, ragged people stretched out behind and before me. I shouldn’t be here. I shouldn’t have to be here." 🗼🌇
New fiction today by @authorplm.bsky.social: "Ascension"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
The contest closes on March 9th. We can’t wait to see what you'll create! 🌟
02.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Write a microfiction piece up to 300 words. It can be fantasy, sci-fi, or horror! Email the piece to darian@apexbookcompany.com.
The top three will be voted on among Apex staff, and the winners will be published on the Apex blog, as well as sent an ARC of MULTITUDE and preorder exclusive keychain!
Marie Vibbert’s MULTITUDE explores the concept that we aren't the only intelligent life in the world, an idea which has long fascinated humanity. But if, in fact, aliens exist: what would they be like?
We would like you to write a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want! Write a fantasy, sci-fi, or horror microfiction piece up to 300 words.
Email the piece to darian@apexbookcompany.com. The top three will be voted on among Apex staff, and the winners will be published on the Apex blog, as well as sent an ARC of MULTITUDE and a keychain! Contest closes on March 9th.
We're hosting another microfiction contest to celebrate the upcoming release of @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod scifi MULTITUDE! ✍️🦑🪐 The theme is a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want!
02.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 20 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
picture of a bookshelf that has some paper chains hanging from it, along with fairy lights, a small paper house, and a little handmade booklet. Nearby is my book, The Cellar Below the Cellar
Showing off my copy of Cellar alongside the book-related papercrafts made by Ori and friends at @apexmag.bsky.social!
To make your own papercrafts from this collection:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Me (curly auburn hair, black top and pants) reading into a mic at a podium with a quilted book-patterned podium cover. Behind me, a red curtain, a string-light-wrapped pipe, and a green banner for the venue Writers & Books.
Writers & Books Artistic Director and author Tyler Barton reads into a mic at a podium with a quilted book-patterned podium cover. A red curtain and string lights set the stage. David DeGraff, Cassandra Scherr, Jennifer Hudak, and I are seated to the left.
Three books—We're Here: The Best Speculative Fiction of the Year, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, and Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine sit face-out on a counter with stacks of books between them. Behind the counter, between windows, is a red poster that reads: Eat, Sleep, Read, Local.
I'm holding a copy of ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction in front of a bookshelf. The anthology's cover is black with an otherworldly pink blooming plant.
Had a really lovely time at yesterday's Speculative Fiction Salon at Writers & Books with local legends @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @daviddegraff.bsky.social, and Cassandra Scherr! Thanks for packing the house for speculative queer and eco fiction. @neonhemlock.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social
01.03.2026 15:29 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
a picture of the cover of a zine with a squiggly scraggly jackalope on the cover. it has a pink heart nose and horns. it says "Unsettled Nature" on it
i was at a thing tonight where you could make your own zine, so i tried to make one of "Unsettled Nature" (in @apexmag.bsky.social) and realized my art skills aren't up to par halfway through.
here's what i got though:
This a really terrific story! Corporate satire, essentially, though I don't know if anyone but me will read it that way. Eerie and sad and a chilling kind of cli-fi, and, also, as I said, a critique of working in an Amazon distribution wharehouse.
28.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
All dressed up with nowhere to go? Try going to your computer and finishing up your submission! 👀⏰
There's just ONE DAY LEFT to submit your flash fiction! February's theme is DRESS CODES. You have until tomorrow at midnight CST to submit!
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27.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Don't forget to sign up for the Speculative Fiction Salon this Saturday! 🪐🌱🏳️🌈 Featuring a stellar panel of authors from ECO24: Best Speculative Ecofiction and We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Sliding scale tickets for both in-person and virtual attendees available here! ⬇️
26.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2An eco-fiction chat?!? Yes, please!
26.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
UHH so to our shock and delight, CELLAR is currently the 2nd most entered giveaway on @thestorygraph.com!! 🎉🌌 If you're interested in a free copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's upcoming folk horror (or you just want to steal the top spot from Wuthering Heights) giveaway's open until March 18th!
26.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Don't forget to sign up for the Speculative Fiction Salon this Saturday! 🪐🌱🏳️🌈 Featuring a stellar panel of authors from ECO24: Best Speculative Ecofiction and We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Sliding scale tickets for both in-person and virtual attendees available here! ⬇️
26.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2The craft wizards at Apex never fail! Please make these paper crafts! And show them off if you do!
26.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A paperback copy of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR sitting upright on a desk, next to a small zine made of copy paper with an embroidered gold star and watercolor galaxy on the cover.
A page of the mini book review zine depicting a crescent moon beneath five stars. All five stars are filled in with yellow marker.
A page for ephemera in the book review zine. The page is covered in blue shiny stickers, and a heart cut out of blue cotton fabric.
A stellar little book for a stellar little book 🌟🌌📚
We made a book review zine papercraft inspired by the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out in just one month! Check out the free template below and enjoy a new post-reading ritual ✂️📝
drive.google.com/file/d/1WXJx...
Interview with Artist Trevor Henderson By Bradley Powers. Apex Magazine, Issue 152.
"I try and keep it kind of loose. . . . The last thing I want to do is spell everything out, so that's always at the front of my mind." 🎨💀
New interview today by Bradley Powers: "Interview with Artist @slimyswampghost.bsky.social"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
this is gonna be SOO FUUUN! Fantastic group of people to celebrate the launch of a very special book 🫶🥄💀🫑✨
Grab your ticket!
It was such a treat to do this interview and answer some really incisive and in-depth questions about my story "Piglet Delivers", Winnie the Pooh, writing, and much more. ❤️
24.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In addition to Goodreads, you can review it on Storygraph:
app.thestorygraph.com/books/de6266...
It's almost Cellar time, just one month away from release, and here's the latest info:
And many thanks to the folks at Violet Lichen and Apex for their amazing work!
ivygrimes.substack.com/p/the-cellar...
"Interview with Author Maria Haskins By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 152"
"What surprised me when I wrote that story was the way it fought back. . . . When I finally found the right ending, it was a lot quieter than I had expected." 🥊🖊️
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Author @mariahaskins.com"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Free tickets for the virtual book launch of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR are LIVE 🌟🌌🎉 Join author @ivygrimes.bsky.social, guests @eerieyore.bsky.social, @christinogle.bsky.social, @sashabrown.bsky.social, and host @authorplm.bsky.social March 25 for a Q&A, live reading, and giveaways! See you there 💜
23.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
"Interview with Author Maria Haskins By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 152"
"What surprised me when I wrote that story was the way it fought back. . . . When I finally found the right ending, it was a lot quieter than I had expected." 🥊🖊️
New interview by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Author @mariahaskins.com"
Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
A woman with wavy dark hair stands with her back to the camera wearing a black sweatshirt with white print: strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful surrounding an alien head with mushrooms growing out of it.
Thanks to @apexmag.bsky.social for this awesome hoodie! I’ll be wearing it everywhere now 👽🍄
21.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0