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Apex Magazine

Creative Magazine/Website

Rating

Recommend this magazinebased on 11 votes

Bold & Weird7

Great Editor(s)5

A Damn Good Read5

New Writer Friendly3

Highlights

Type

Creative

Vibe

Top tier. Not Paris Review, but pretty close

Payment

$0.08 per word

Fee

No fee

Acceptance rate

0.86%/1%

Response time

34 days/30 days

Print issues

Accepts previously published

Nominates for prizes

Yes

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About

Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display. We publish in two forms: an every-other-month eBook issue and a gradual release of an entire issue online over a two month period. Along with the genre short fiction, there are interviews with authors and nonfiction essays a...

Social Media

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Location

United States

Founded

2005

Affiliations

Apex Book Company

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