Apex Magazine Issue 111
2018
First Published
3.20
Average Rating
151
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Apex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. This month Sheree Renée Thomas guest-edits a special Zodiac themed issue! EDITORIAL Under Ancient Stars, New Dreams Are Born—Sheree Renée Thomas FICTION For Southern Girls When the Zodiac Ain’t Near Enough—Eden Royce Prism—Stefanie Elrick La Ciguapa, For the Reeds, For Herself—J.M. Guzman Gasping—Brandon O’Brien Jewel of the Vashwa—Jordan Kurella The Barnum Effect—Celia Neri POETRY How to Paint Mercury—Mary Soon Lee Capricorn—Tara Betts How to Fly by Neptune—Mary Soon Lee Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)—Sherese Francis How to Speak to Pluto—Mary Soon Lee A Theorized Form of Matter—Ashely Adams NONFICTION ‘There’s No Racism Here?’ A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic—Kiini Ibura Salaam COLUMNS Page Advice—Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant Between the Lines with the Print Run Podcast—Laura Zats and Erik Hane INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Eden Royce—Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Stacey Robinson—Russell Dickerson
Avg Rating
3.20
Number of Ratings
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5 STARS
20%
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Authors
Brandon O'Brien
Author · 3 books
Brandon O'Brien is a poet, writer, critic and facilitator from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been published in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy!, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among other outlets. His work has also been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, and the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions.
Mary Soon Lee
Author · 5 books
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: How to Navigate Our Universe containing 128 astronomy poems, and The Sign of the Dragon, a novel-length epic fantasy told in poetry. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and an equally cryptic BlueSky account (@marysoonlee.bsky.social).
Jordan Kurella
Author · 4 books
Jordan Kurella is a trans and disabled author who has lived all over the world (including Moscow and Manhattan). In his past lives, he was a photographer, radio DJ, and social worker. His work can be found in Apex, Glitter + Ashes, and Strange Horizons. His novella, I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY, and his short story collection, WHEN I WAS LOST, are both expected in 2022. Jordan lives in Ohio with his perfect service dog and perfectly serviceable cat.
Tara Betts
Author · 4 books
Tara Betts is the author of the forthcoming REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR, BREAK THE HABIT, ARC AND HUE, and the chapbooks 7 x 7: kwansabas, and the THE GREATEST!: AN HOMAGE TO MUHAMMAD ALI. She is a Cave Canem fellow and holds an MFA from New England College and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR is available at Small Press Distribution now. https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/978...
Eden Royce
Author · 7 books
Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist for her short fiction, which has appeared in various print and online magazines. Her debut middle grade novel, ROOT MAGIC is a Walter Award Honoree, a Nebula Award finalist, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, and an Ignyte award winner for outstanding children’s literature. She loves tea, coffee, bookstores, and roller skating – not always in that order.
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Author · 5 books
Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her debut novel—When the World Turned Upside Down—is a middle grade story of four friends leaning into community during the time of COVID. Written under the pen name K. Ibura, it is her first book for children. Her speculative fiction and essays have been included in such publications as the Dark Matter, Mojo: Conjure Stories, and Colonize This! anthologies, as well as Essence, Utne Reader, and Ms. magazines. She is the author of two short story collections for adults: Ancient, Ancient, winner of the 2012 James Tiptree, Jr. award and When the World Wounds. Her micro-essays on writing can be found at kiiniibura.com or in her Notes From the Trenches ebook series.
