Apex Magazine (celebrating 150 issues!) 🥂

"We Who Hunt Alexanders By Jason Sanford, Apex Magazine Issue 150"

I killed my first Alexander at seventeen. That was also the age I fell in love, an emotion supposedly beyond my kind." 🔪🦷❤️‍🔥

New excerpt today by @jasonsanford.bsky.social: "We Who Hunt Alexanders"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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Stop the world, I want to get off! 🎠🎪🌍

Today is the LAST DAY to submit your flash fiction!! July's theme is CAROUSEL. Go throw that file into Moksha and take a breather! 🌬️

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WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS released last week! If you missed author @jasonsanford.bsky.social's r/Fantasy AMA or his guest post on John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog last week, links to both can be found below! ⬇️

(and don't forget to grab your copy of WWHA here:) www.apexbookcompany.com/products/we-...

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Eat, drink, and be merry (go-round!) 💫🌀

There's just TWO DAYS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! July's theme is CAROUSEL. You have until this Thursday to submit!

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"What the Crab Apple Tree Near Miranda Spaceport Saw By Elijah J. Mears, Apex Magazine Issue 150"

"1.8 billion miles from the sun, my roots dig deep into the soil of a small garden." 🌌🍏

New fiction today by @elijah.mea.rs: "What the Crab Apple Tree Near Miranda Spaceport Saw"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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New Patreon post: "Apex in August 2025" 🐬🌈🌡️

Happy almost-August! It's month three of scorching summer heat and I think we're all about to lose it 🫠✨💖

Check out our monthly updates and exciting announcements (150 Issues! ECO24 TOC! New books and more!) below!

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Thank you @mynachang.bsky.social for including @jasonsanford.bsky.social's "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO" in your July roundup! Check out the full list below and go support some fabulous short fiction authors and publishers! ⬇️

We can't speak on other publications' format requirements, but Apex uses Shunn. This was a request made in the interest of author privacy, but writers submitting to Apex are welcome to disregard this if they feel it's imperative to share their home address with our staff. Thank you!

Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.

Kickstarter alert!! 📢

Habitats Press publishes optimistic sci-fi and fantasy and is currently raising funds for their second magazine issue, Habitats Volume 2. Please consider sharing and supporting their Kickstarter, and help get these beautiful stories out into the world! 🌬️🌱

Link below! ⬇️

I found this artwork while attending my daughter's senior art exhibit for college. Being able to find artwork by a recent college graduate for our previously unpaid authors issue was so wonderful! And I absolutely love Makayla's style!

If you've already submitted your flash fiction and included a mailing address, you do NOT have to resubmit! Your story is still being considered for this month's contest and will NOT be disqualified.

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PSA for flash fiction writers: no need to include a mailing address in your submissions!

While this is part of Shunn Classic requirements, our editorial team will only communicate via email and (sadly) doesn't make house calls. (unless your house is haunted, in which case we'll be right over!) 👻🏠

"Interview with Artist Makayla Bounds By Bradley Powers. Apex Magazine, Issue 150."

"Sometimes the greatest parts of my pieces must come from the unconscious side of me, not the conscious." 🧠🎨

New interview today with Bradley Powers: "Interview with Artist Makayla Bounds"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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Quit horsin' around! 🎠🛝

There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your flash fiction! The theme for this month is CAROUSEL. You have until July 31st to submit!

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The Big Idea: Jason Sanford More important than writing for an audience, is writing for yourself. Author Jason Sanford has chosen to write true to himself above all else, not holding anything back in this Big Idea for his new…

My Big Idea essay on @scalzi.com's Whatever blog discusses why I wrote about a neurodiverse main character in my new novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.

Hint: In fiction, the mask comes off. As someone on the spectrum and with ADHD, I mean that literally. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/07/23/t...

The Big Idea: Jason Sanford More important than writing for an audience, is writing for yourself. Author Jason Sanford has chosen to write true to himself above all else, not holding anything back in this Big Idea for his new…

"But for me, the story will always be about lifting my mask and saying, 'This is my life. This is who I am.'" ⭐♾️

@jasonsanford.bsky.social has a great post on @scalzi.com's blog! Taking off my social media manager hat for a moment: to my fellow neurodiverse writers, I promise this is a must-read! 🖤

ChloroPhilia Would you sacrifice your humanity to save the world? Kirmen is different from the other inhabitants of the Cloister, whose walls protect them all from the endless storm ravaging Earth. As a result of ...

"Chlorophilia pulled me into some reflection, made me think, and rewarded me for paying close attention." 🧠🌱

Thank you so much Palmer Vaughn for your review of @cristinajurado.bsky.social's CHLOROPHILIA!

Read the full review here: www.phvaughn.com/publications-1

Order CHLOROPHILIA below! ⬇️

Did you hear that WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS celebrated its book birthday yesterday?? If you haven't yet, why not swing by www.apexbookcompany.com and pick up a copy? It's like getting someone a birthday present, but that 'someone' is you! 🎁🎂

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"The first time our eyes met, I wanted to put them in my mouth." 👁️🍽️

New short fiction today by @gmmitchell.bsky.social: "A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

If you like dark queer speculative fiction, my short story about cannibalism and loneliness is out today and free to read!

Graphic text: "THE MASKS WE WEAR Drabble Contest. Three winners will be selected, and their stories will be published in Apex Magazine issue 151, releasing in October 2025. Submissions for this drabble contest open on July 10th, 2025 and will close July 24th, 2025."

Psst, don't forget that there's only a few days left to submit to our "The Masks We Wear" drabble contest! 🎭

Full submission guidelines and submission link here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Graphic featuring the text "A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy By G.M. Mitchell, Apex Magazine, Issue 150" on a turquoise background. To the left is the 150th cover, a long vertical painting of a red tombstone-shaped portal sitting in a wetland clearing at midday. Two large hands on either side reach through more portals to attempt to cover up the view through the portal in the center, which is a cluttered, hellish collage of cars, street signs, and stoplights.

"The first time our eyes met, I wanted to put them in my mouth." 👁️🍽️

New short fiction today by @gmmitchell.bsky.social: "A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

🎶Happy BOOOOOOK DAAAAAAAY dear @jasonsanford.bsky.social haaaaaaaapy booooook daaaaaaaay toooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU🎶

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Got any questions, queries or quandaries for @jasonsanford.bsky.social? He's hosting an AMA on the r/Fantasy subreddit right now! If you want to chat about short fiction, publishing, or sandworms, then come on down!

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Launch Day for We Who Hunt Alexanders! Rejoice far and wide, because the day is here! Happy Book Birthday to We Who Hunt Alexanders! Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they'v...

Happy book birthday to WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS!! 🎂🎈🎉

We're so excited to see Amelia and her Ripper family out in the world at last. Have you ordered your copy yet??

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We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford

Happy book release day to We Who Hunt Alexanders, my quirky novella from @apexmag.bsky.social about a neurodivergent monster dealing with both her mom's wrong expectations for her life and the religious extremists hunting them down. Don't miss it! 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/we-...

Text: "LAST DAY TO PREORDER! 'Sharp, relentless, achingly beautiful. Like the times we live in, We Who Hunt Alexanders is a harrowing tale infused with the kind of humanity that refuses to be erased.' —Maurice Broaddus, author of Unfadeable and Pimp My Airship www.apexbookcompany.com" Graphic shows the cover for Jason Sanford's WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS overlaid on an Impressionist painting of a woman and her daughter walking on a beach, towards a large Medieval town in the distance.

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Get ready for girl dinner 💅🥩

Today is the LAST DAY to preorder Jason Sanford's delicious dark fantasy, WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS. Snag this bite-sized novella for 30% off before Amelia and the Rippers are unleashed on the world TOMORROW, July 22nd! ⏰

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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...

Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for the WE WHO HUNT ALEXANDERS shout-out! 🖤

Remember, today is the LAST DAY to preorder your copy for 30% off before @jasonsanford.bsky.social's delicious new horror novella is unleashed on the world 🔥🦷

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We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford

We Who Hunt Alexanders, my gothic dark fantasy novella published by @apexmag.bsky.social, launches tomorrow. Clintonville Books in Columbus, Ohio, will host the official book launch tomorrow July 22 at 6 pm. Stop by to hear a discussion about the book and a signing
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can't believe We Who Hunt Alexanders comes out NEXT WEEK AAAAAHHH FEELING VERY NORMAL ABOUT IT

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