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Lois Mei-en | all children must be freed @loekwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Already feeling inspired by the 2027 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! The story critiques on offer by incredible authors--so many cool eBooks available--the Support Your Local Punks merch is 🖤💗🖤

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Bailey Thomas @baileythomas92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMG THERE ARE SO MANY COOL REWARDS!!!! I’m panicking about what to pick 😭 Please consider backing @apexmag.bsky.social, Apex is the reason I fell in love with short stories and felt inspired to write my own. Really cool mag that publishes many diverse people and stories!

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T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Apex Kickstarter has begun! Please consider supporting the magazine for 2027. They pay pro rates for the fiction they publish, and the kickstarter has lots of cool rewards this year, like critiques for a short story or manuscript.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been published multiple times by Apex, so of course I'm eager to see them continue, but, honestly? I WANT TO SEE THE STRETCH GOALS HERE, particularly the STRANGE OCEANS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARK SEAFARING. So, fund away! (Apex is also offering a pretty cool T-shirt as one of the backer rewards.)

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One hour in and we're closing in on the first $1,000! Yay!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is ALIIIVE! 🎉🎉🎉 we have short story critiques, backer-exclusive anthologies, fresh new merch (which you can check out below) and more, PLUS a brand new Q&A with @lightspeedmagazine.com and @nightmare-magazine.com! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time! The @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter is live! Help us fund another year of strange, shocking, beautiful, and surreal speculative fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

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Efren @efrenr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been a while since I bought something from @apexmag.bsky.social Seems like the perfect time... 😊 I just backed Apex Magazine 2027 on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're launching the @apexmag.bsky.social 2027 Kickstarter tomorrow! Lots of cool rewards, plus fun perks for our backers. I hope you'll join us and help fund another year of Apex! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First a drip, and then a flood...of flash fiction! 🌊✍️ Today is the FINAL DAY to submit your flash fiction to our collaborative theme with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! The theme for September is DRIP/DRIPPING. You have until midnight Central Time to submit! www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

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Spirited Away: No-Face in the Ocean Wave

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter kicks off TOMORROW! ⏰⏰⏰ If you want to be notified when our page goes live and snag some early bird swag, sign up to follow the campaign below. Thank you for supporting another year of strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff! 💜👽

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Supper tastes best the day after you’ve fed Uncle." 🍽️🍖🩸 New fiction today by S.C. Pires: "We Were Once Twelve" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"We Were Once Twelve" By S.C. Pires. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Supper tastes best the day after you’ve fed Uncle." 🍽️🍖🩸 New fiction today by S.C. Pires: "We Were Once Twelve" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The witching hour is nearly upon us! 🎃🍄🌙 our 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter goes LIVE October 1st with new tier rewards and exclusive merch. Be sure to sign up for launch notifications below, and help us publish even more strange, surreal short fiction in 2027! ⬇️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine
2027 Kickstarter
Live Oct. 1st

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Tier Rewards -

Signed Editions from Alix E. Harrow and Erin K Wagner
Short Fiction and Query Letter Critiques
Backer-exclusive Essays and Short Stories
Books and eBooks including work by Eugen Bacon, Ivy Grimes, Cristina Jurado, Rich Larson, and Jamie Lackey
Limited Edition Stickers, Apparel, Tote Bags, and exclusive Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Merch
AND MORE!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

T-minus 10 days until the launch of the 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! 🚀🍄 Keep your eyes peeled this week as we drop the full reward list, and sign up below to be notified when the campaign is live 👀 Thank you so much for your support! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Signed Collection by Alix E. Harrow, "The Slantwise Histories"

1 hr digital editing session with Malachi Lily

Flash Fiction Critiques!
Ayida Shonibar
Hannya Kay
Rebecca Halsey
Rebecca E Treasure

Essay on Narrative Voice & Worldbuilding from Jordan Kurella. Exclusive to Backers!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apex Book Company is thriled to announce the acquisition of Soul Rebel and Other Stories by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social! Explore revolution, the web of politics, and what it means to be free in this collection of Steampunk and Afro-SF short fiction ⚙️🚂🎩🕰️ Scheduled for release March 2027!

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Press Release: Apex Book Company Acquires SOUL REBEL AND OTHER STORIES

For Immediate Release September 23rdLexington, KY: Apex Book Company is excited to announce the acquisition of Soul Rebel and Other Stories by Maurice Broaddus. A collection of steampunk, Afro-SF with...

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This Spring is going to be stacked...

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Press Release: Apex Book Company Acquires SOUL REBEL AND OTHER STORIES

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I felt a bit disoriented while I was writing the final scene, like it was happening to my own body." 🫁🔄💬 New today by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Interview with Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Interview with Author Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad" by Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're leaking some important news 💉🩸 There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your flash fiction to our special collaborative contest with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! The theme for September is DRIP/DRIPPING. you have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

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Forever Knight: Bloody Temptation

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm fascinated by the process of writing individual, stand-alone stories in a universe you've created because not only do I love reading stories like this, it's what I'm doing with the stories in my Plague Birds universe, released by @apexmag.bsky.social. 2/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

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Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition

Finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award! Return to Jason Sanford's dark sci-fi world in Plague Birds: The Red Day Edition, newly updated and with an additional afterword and short story, "Li...

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bernie jean schiebeling (she/they) @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i'll be reading bits of my work in ECO25 from Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social; it's available for preorder, go get it!) and House, Body, Bird from @psychopomp.com. it's gay, it's ghosty, there's at least one dinosaur, we're checking all the boxes.

A caption that says "I'll be reading:" and images of two book covers: "ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction," which has illustrations of luminescent fungi, and "House, Body, Bird," which has an illustration of a malevolent looking house.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Greetings, patrons of the dark literary arts 🔮📜🪄 the High Council cordially invites you to join our coven: the Apex Patreon! Discuss ancient tomes with your peers in the Discord server, access secret knowledge, read arcane tales, and more. Join us, if you dare! 🧙💀 www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

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a black and white cartoon of a witch coming out of a hole

Alt: The scene in Disney's Snow White of the Evil Queen disguised as a witch laughing while lowering a floor hatch.

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter is coming soon! Be sure to hit that 'Notify me on launch' button so you can be one of the first to back another year of Apex! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Coming soon: Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is the drip a conflict or a resolution? A character? Part of the setting? How far can you take that verb? 😄✍️ #writingcommunity

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's just TWO WEEKS LEFT to submit to our collaborative flash fiction contest with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! 💧🚰 The Apex theme for September is DRIP/DRIPPING. You have until the end of the month to submit! www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"My grandmother is a part-swapper, my mother is a part-swapper, and I’m a part-swapper too." 🦾🩸♻️ New fiction today by Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad: "Parts and Halves" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Parts and Halves" By Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you wanna win this great book which includes a story by yours truly today is your last chance to enter!!!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Each story of hope, where the scarcely-possible happens, keeps a better future within the realms of the imaginable and serves as a message not to give in to the darkness." 🌌🦑🛸 Thank you to @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy for reviewing MULTITUDE by @reasie.bsky.social! 💜👽

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Review: Multitude by Marie Vibbert

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last day to enter our ECO24 giveaway on @thestorygraph.com! 📣🌱 enter for a chance to win a free print or digital copy of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, just in time for November's release of ECO25!

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violetlichenbooks's giveaway for ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction on The StoryGraph

Violet Lichen Books, sister imprint to Apex Book Company, is excited to giveaway 110 copies o...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

👁️👁️👁️ We hope this email finds you 👁️👁️👁️ Looking for spine-tingling short fiction? Become a Patron or subscribe via our site and receive full issues of Apex Magazine delivered right to your inbox! 📨 👽 Website: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/ape... 👽 Patreon: www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp...

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a black and white drawing of a man standing in front of a ufo .

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Becky Halsey @beckyhalsey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m so excited to about this collab! 😃 #writingcommunity #flashfiction

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We can’t wait to read your work!! 💧 Happy writing everyone!!

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"In the Blue Hour" is free to read TODAY in Apex! Gothic flash fiction has arrived just in time for fall 🍁💀 Most detested cousin....most unwanted inheritance.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fifth tale of ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION 🌎🌱🌕 Read "Kindling" by @somtoihezue.bsky.social 🔥 alongside 23 stellar tales of climate fiction, solarpunk, New Weird, and ecohorror 🌟 🌳🍎 Preorders for ECO25 are open now! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

“KINDLING”
Somto Ihezue

"Forest knew not this stranger whose skin was fleeting embered diamonds. Her mother had said, Be wary of strangers. Where was her mother now?
So, Forest took the stranger’s hand, and the stranger walked through fire."

PREORDER ECO25: THE YEAR’S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION TODAY AT www.apexbookcompany.com

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"We hold a simple service and lay lilies on her grave. Within the day she has clawed her way back up and is sitting at my breakfast table. . ." 💐🔐🌄 New fiction today by @rjaurand.bsky.social: "In the Blue Hour" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"In the Blue Hour" By RJ Aurand. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're celebrating autumn with a surprise flash collab! 🎉🍂🎃 Apex's September flash theme is DRIP/DRIPPING 💧— and starting October 20th, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social's theme is DRIP/DRIPPING too! Check out the email returning stories later this September for a special submission portal link 🗳️🌟

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September Flash Fiction Theme | Apex Books & Apex Magazine

Themes are chosen by Patrons at the end of the month and announced to Patrons on the 1st of each month. Submissions open to Patrons on the 1

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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thought I'd reshare this now month-old story of mine because Apex Mag was my dream market for half a decade! Still immensely grateful to @lesleyconner.bsky.social & The Squad for sharing my lil story about gender dysphoria & fear of prion disease

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is such a great anthology and I'm really excited to see the series continue for years to come!!

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Only one week left to enter our ECO24 giveaway on @thestorygraph.com! 🌱📣 We're giving away 110 copies in celebration of ECO25, the second in our annual speculative ecofiction series, releasing this November! Check it out below: 🌟 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...

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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is going to be so good! I have no doubt about that (spoken as someone who has read almost everything @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social has published!) 😁

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Catherine McCarthy @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The day has finally arrived, folks! All my latest writing news, as well as a heartfelt account of recent personal events recorded here. Grateful for shares!🙏 Link: cmccarthywriter.substack.com/p/the-news-i... @apexmag.bsky.social #booksky

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The News I’ve Been Waiting to Share!

Life, as well as the season, may be about to turn a corner...

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