”You Too Shall Be Psyche” by Rich Larson -- published in Apex Magazine issue 93, February 2017. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/you-too-shall-be-psyche/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in Spain, and now writes from Ottawa, Canada. His short work has been featured on io9, translated into Polish and Italian, and appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies as well as in magazines such as Asimov’s , Analog , Clarkesworld , F&SF , Interzone ...
Feb 07, 2017•36 min
”Mag, the Habitat and We” by Lia Swope Mitchell -- published in Apex Magazine issue 92, January 2017. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/mag-the-habitat-and-we/ Lia Swope Mitchell is a writer, translator, editorial assistant, and PhD candidate in French literature at the University of Minnesota. Consequently she often feels overwhelmed by a multitude of small tasks. She lives in Minneapolis. This Apex Magazine podcast was performed and produced by Mahvesh Murad. Music used with kind perm...
Jan 03, 2017•22 min
”Uncontainable” by Helen Stubbs -- published in Apex Magazine issue 91, December 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/uncontainable Helen Stubbs writes stories that are dark with pointy edges published in anthologies and magazines including The Never Never Land , Midnight Echo , and Winds of Change . She interviews for Galactic Chat and the Australian SF Snapshot . In 2010 she won the Worldcon short story competition and in 2015 she won a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent in Australia...
Dec 06, 2016•29 min
”Every Winter” by E. Catherine Tobler -- published in Apex Magazine issue 90, November 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/every-winter/ Catherine Tobler has never slept in a haunted French villa — but you should ask her about the haunted house near her childhood home sometime. Among others, her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld , Lightspeed , and on the Sturgeon Award ballot. Follow her on Twitter @ECthetwit or her website, www.ecatherine.com . This Apex Magazine podcast was per...
Nov 03, 2016•32 min
”Damnatio Ad Bestias” by Kristi DeMeester -- published in Apex Magazine issue 89, October 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/damnatio-ad-bestias/ Kristi DeMeester received her M. A. in Creative Writing from Kennesaw State University in 2011. Since then her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Black Static , The Dark , Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1 and 3 , and several others. Her chapbook, Split Tongues , published by Dim Shores Press, sold out in early ...
Oct 04, 2016•44 min
”The Warrior Boy Who Would Not Suffer” by Alexandria Baisden -- published in Apex Magazine issue 88, September 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/the-warrior-boy-who-would-not-suffer/ Abhinav Bhat is a writer from Jammu & Kashmir, India. He has jumped without a parachute. A fantasy novel popped out some way down, followed by a few short stories, one of which you are reading. We’ll let you know whether he goes splat or flies. He can be contacted midair at [email protected]...
Sep 06, 2016•31 min
”The Gentleman of Chaos” by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor — published in Apex Magazine issue 87, August 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/the-gentleman-of-chaos/ Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer who lives in Minnesota with two adorable cats (Tater Tot photos frequently grace all Merc’s social media). Merc is a Nebula Awards finalist, and their stories have appeared in Lightspeed , Fireside , Apex , Uncanny , Nightmare , Escape Pod , and several Year’s Best anthologies. You can...
Aug 02, 2016•31 min
"Lazarus and the Amazing Kid Phoenix" by Jennifer Giesbrecht -- published in Apex Magazine issue 86, July 2016. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/lazarus-and-the-amazing-kid-phoenix/ Enjoy our interview with the author here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/interview-with-author-jennifer-giesbrecht/ Jennifer Giesbrecht is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned her degree in History and Methodology. She’s a freelance editor, multi-disciplinary nerd, and a graduate of Clarion West’...
Jul 12, 2016•54 min
”Folk Hero”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 85, June 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/folk-hero/ Mary Pletsch is a glider pilot, toy collector and graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. She attended Superstars Writing Seminars in 2010 and has since published short stories and novellas in a variety of genres including science fiction, steampunk, fantasy, and horror. She lives in New Brunswick with Dylan Blacquiere and their four cats. Visit her online at www.fictorian...
Jun 07, 2016•32 min
”1957” by Stephen Cox --published in Apex Magazine issue 84, May 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/1957-stephen-cox/ Stephen Cox lives in London.He's editing a novel which is repped by Rob Dinsdale of A M Heath. Previous stories include one in Lightspeed and one in the Apiary collection, Tudor Close . He tweets erratically at @stephenwhq. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazine Podcast,...
May 03, 2016•30 min
”The Teratologist’s Brother” by Brandon H. Bell -- published in Apex Magazine issue 83, April 2016. Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-teratologists-brother/ Brandon H. Bell's writing has appeared in markets including The Lovecraft eZine , Hadley Rille Books , and Questioncopyright.org . He was the editor of Fantastique Unfettered magazine and the Torn Pages anthology. He is a husband, a father of daughters, and a Buddhist. He strives to be a good ally to GLBTQ and other under-repre...
Apr 05, 2016•41 min
”Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 82, March 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/death-flowers-of-a-never-forgotten-love/ Jason Sanford is an award-winning author of short stories, essays, and articles and an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Jason has published more than a dozen of his short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone , which once devoted a special issue to his fiction. His fiction has also been...
Mar 01, 2016•12 min
"The Four Gardens of Fate"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 81, February 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-four-gardens-of-fate/ Betsy Phillips's short stories have appeared in Betwixt, Beyond Borderlands, Eurynome , and Qarrtsiluni , as well as various anthologies. She is the author of A City of Ghosts and The Wolf's Bane . Apex Magazine was the first place to publish her, a fact she has never forgotten. Neither have her detractors. She lives in Whites Creek, Tennessee with a me...
Feb 02, 2016•27 min
“The Open-Hearted” —Published in Apex Magazine issue 80, January 2016. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-open-hearted/ Lettie Prell likes to explore the edge where humans and their technology are increasingly merging. Her science fiction stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Apex Magazine , and its Book of Apex anthology, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on the StarShipSofa podcast. She is an active member of SFWA. This Apex Magazine Podcast was perfo...
Jan 05, 2016•34 min
“She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 79, December 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/she-gave-her-heart-he-took-her-marrow/ Sam Fleming’s work has appeared in Black Static, Fish from Dagan Books, and Looking Landwards from NewCon Press. She lives in north-east Scotland with an artistic spouse and the correct number of bicycles, that being both entirely too many and not quite enough. Find her at ravenbait.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performe...
Dec 01, 2015•41 min
“When the Fall is All That’s Left”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 77, October 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/when-the-fall-is-all-thats-left/ Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a Byzantine historian. In both roles she writes about border politics, rhetorical propaganda, and liminal spaces. She was a student at Viable Paradise XVII. Arkady grew up in New York City and currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden. Find her online at arkadymartine.w...
Oct 06, 2015•14 min
"Six Things We Found During the Autopsy"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 76, September 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/six-things-we-found-during-the-autopsy/ Indian writer Kuzhali Manickavel's short fiction collections are Things We Found During the Autopsy and Insects Are Just like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings , and echapbook Eating Sugar, Telling Lies . Her work has also appeared in Granta, Agni, Subtropics , and elsewhere. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed ...
Sep 01, 2015•7 min
“Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant’s Tale”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 75, August 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/not-my-circus-not-my-monkeys-the-elephants-tale/ Damien Angelica Walters’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015, Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume One,The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She was a finalist f...
Aug 04, 2015•23 min
“Going Endo”—Published in Apex Magazine issue 74, July 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/going-endo/ Rich Larson was born in West Africa, has studied in Rhode Island and Edmonton, Alberta, and at 23 now works in a small Spanish town outside Seville. His short work has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and appears in multiple Year’s Best anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, BCS, and Apex. Find hi...
Jul 07, 2015•19 min
"Inhabiting Your Skin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 73, June 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/inhabiting-your-skin/ Mari Ness has published fiction and poetry in multiple venues, including Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, and right here at Apex Magazine. You can follow her official blog at marikness.wordpress.com, or on Twitter as @mari_ness. She lives in central Florida, where she is still trying to figure out how to program the convection oven/microwave. This Apex...
Jun 02, 2015•24 min
"A Sister's Weight In Stone"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 72, May 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/a-sisters-weight-in-stone/ JY Yang has held seven jobs in four industries in under a decade. The one thing enduring this mess has been her endeavours as a speculative fiction writer. She has had short stories published in markets both Singaporean (Ceriph, Fish Eats Lion, From The Belly Of The Cat) and international (Clarkesworld, Crossed Genres, Strange Horizons). A graduate of the...
May 05, 2015•28 min
"Beatification of the Second Fall"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 71, April 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/beatification-of-the-second-fall/ In his day job, Sean Robinson works with at risk youth in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA, and a semi-professional fire breather (the two probably aren't related). His work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Betwixt, and Apex Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter (infrequently) @Kesterian. ...
Apr 07, 2015•28 min
"Houdini’s Heart"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 70, March 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/houdinis-heart/ Thoraiya Dyer is an award-winning Australian writer. Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Analog, Nature and Cosmos, among others (for a full list, see www.thoraiyadyer.com ). Her collection of four original stories, Asymmetry, available from Twelfth Planet Press, was called "unsettling, poignant, marvellous" by Nancy Kress. A la...
Mar 03, 2015•28 min
"Requiem, for Solo Cello"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 69, February 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/requiem-for-solo-cello/ Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex Magazine, Streets of Shadows, What Fates Impose , and Glitter & Mayhem . Paper Tigers , a novel, will be released in late 2015 f...
Feb 03, 2015•10 min
"Pocosin"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 68, January 2015. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/pocosin/ Ursula Vernon is the author of the Hugo Award winning comic “Digger” and numerous children's books. She writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher. She lives in North Carolina and gardens, if you can call it that. Find her online at www.tkingfisher.com. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed and produced by Lisa Shininger. Music used with kind permission of Oh, Alchemy! Apex Magazi...
Jan 06, 2015•28 min
"Anthracite Wedding"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 67, December 2014 Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/anthracite-weddings/ John Zaharick grew up close to a mine fire destroyed town in rural Pennsylvania. He has worked as an assistant editor for a weekly newspaper, earned a master's degree in ecology, and currently lives in Minnesota where he supports the Baltimore Science Fiction Society long distance. His fiction has appeared in several magazines, including AE , Not One of Us , St...
Dec 02, 2014•36 min
"Candy Girl"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 66, November 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/candy-girl/ Chikodili Emelumadu is a Nigerian writer and broadcaster living in London. When she is not writing, she spends her time looking for a way through platform 9¾ in Kings’ Cross station, Yggdrasil or any other portals between worlds – she’s not picky. She has been published in Eclectica magazine, Luna Station Quarterly and the now defunct Running Out of Ink magazine. She is working on...
Nov 04, 2014•29 min
"The House in Winter"—Published in Apex Magazine Issue 65, October, 2014 Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/the-house-in-winter/ Jessica Sirkin wrote her first speculative fiction story after reading Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" in seventh grade. Now, between her day job as a technology journalist and her nighttime fiction writing habit, she spends more time typing than she does pretty much anything else. Jessica lives in Boston with her partner and their pet rabbit. This Apex Magazine Podcas...
Oct 07, 2014•33 min
"Economies of Force"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 64, September 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/economies-of-force/ Seth Dickinson’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, and more. He is a writer at Bungie Studios, an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. His first novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, will be published by Tor Books in fall 2015. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Windy B...
Sep 02, 2014•38 min
"Jupiter and Gentian"—Published in Apex Magazine issue 63, August 2014. Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/jupiter-and-gentian/ Erik Amundsen has been removed from display for being zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children. He has been sighted in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, Not One of Us and Jabberwocky but his natural habitat is central Connecticut. This Apex Magazine Podcast was performed by Chikodili Emelumadu and produced by Erika Ensign. Music used with kind permi...
Aug 05, 2014•19 min
