Apex Magazine Podcast

"Over Moonlit Clouds" by Coda Audeguy-Pegon - published in Apex Magazine, issue 136, March 2023.

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Coda Audeguy-Pegon is at eir happiest when exploring the farthest reaches of the imaginary, where the mundane waltzes with the impossible and the only limit is cohesive world-building. Born and raised at the foot of the Alps, Coda emigrated to South ...

"River Bargain Baby" by K.S. Walker - published in Apex Magazine, issue 135, January 2023.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/river-bargain-baby/

 K.S. Walker writes speculative fiction. You can often find them spending time outside with their family or starting a craft project but probably not finishing it. K.S. Walker has previously been published at FIYAH, Uncanny, Fantasy, and elsewhere. They are online at ww...

"The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside" by Isabel J. Kim - published in Apex Magazine, issue 135, January 2023.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-big-glass-box-and-the-boys-inside/

Isabel J. Kim is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer based in New York City. She is a Shirley Jackson Award winner and her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspe...

"Observations of a Small Object in Decaying Orbit" by Margaret Dunlap - published in Apex Magazine, issue 134, November 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/observations-of-a-small-object-in-decaying-orbit/

Margaret Dunlap is the author of more than a dozen published short stories and novelettes appearing in Uncanny, Shimmer, and The Sunday Morning Transport and as part of the Locus Award-nominated team behi...

"The Walking Mirror of the Soul" by Renan Bernardo - published in Apex Magazine, issue 134, November 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-walking-mirror-of-the-soul/

Renan Bernardo is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His fiction appeared in Apex Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Solarpunk Magazine, On Spec Magazine, and o...

"Nothing That Bleeds" by Leah Ning - published in Apex Magazine, issue 133, September 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/nothing-that-bleeds/

Content Warning: self harm, suicide

Leah Ning lives in northern Virginia with her husband and their adorable fluffy overlords. She spends her
non-writing time drawing, playing video games, and playing piano. Her short fiction appears or is
forthcoming in PodCastle, Be...

"On the Sunlit Side of Venus" by Benjamin Parzybok - published in Apex Magazine, issue 133, September 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/on-the-sunlit-side-of-venus/

Content Warning: suicide and grief

Benjamin Parzybok is the author of the novels Couch (two-time Indie-Next pick) and Sherwood Nation (chosen for the Silicon Valley Reads program). Among other projects, he founded Gumball Poetry, a literary jo...

"Your Space Between" by Marie Croke — published in Apex Magazine, issue 132, July 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/your-space-between/

Marie Croke is an award-winning fantasy and science-fiction writer living in Maryland with her family, all of whom like to scribble messages in her notebooks when she’s not looking. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and her ...

"Creatures of the Dark Oasis" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam — published in Apex Magazine, issue 132, July 2022.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/creatures-of-the-dark-oasis/

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction and poetry has appeared in over 90 publications such as Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Lightspeed, and LeVar Burton Reads, as well as in six languages. By night, she has been ...

"In The Monster's Mouth" by Tim Waggoner — published in Apex Magazine, issue 131, May 2022.

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Tim Waggoner has published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, the HWA’s M...

"Hoodie" by Tonya Liburd — published in Apex Magazine, issue 131, May 2022.

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Tonya Liburd shares a birthday with Simeon Daniel and Ray Bradbury, which may tell you a little something about her. She has been the recipient of a 2021 Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant. Her work either is, or has been, used in course materials, including at Writing The...

"To Live and Die in Dixieland" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 130, March 2022.

Read it here: https://www.apex-magazine.com/to-live-and-die-in-dixieland

Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding all over the world ever since. Look for him at ru...

"It Rises And Falls And Rises Again" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 130, March 2022.

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RJ Taylor is a queer speculative fiction writer who writes mostly fantasy, near-future, and weird novels, short stories, and flash fiction. She received her MFA from Emerson College and was part of the pilot year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program, a year-long in...

"Sheri, At This Very Moment" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 129, January 2022.

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Bianca Sayan (she/they) works in civic technology and resides in Toronto with her spouse and daughter. You can find her previous work in Analog, Augur Maga...

"It Happened in Loontown" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 129, January 2022.

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Lavie Tidhar is the author of Osama, The Violent Century, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, Unholy Land, and By Force Alone. His latest novels are The Hood and The Escapement. His awards include the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the J...

"Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 128, December 2021.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/soil-of-our-home-storm-of-our-lives/

Renan Bernardo is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Dark Matter Magazine, Three Crows Magazine, Simultaneous Times Podcast, and Life Beyond Us, an anthology organized by the European As...

"To Seek Himself Again" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 127, November 2021.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/to-seek-himself-again

Marie Croke is an award-winning fantasy and science-fiction writer living in Maryland with her family, all of whom like to scribble messages in her notebooks when she's not looking. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and her stories have been published or are forthcoming in ov...

"Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites" — published in Apex Magazine, Indigenous Futurists special issue, October 2021.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/security-breach-at-sugar-pine-suites

Pamela Rentz is a citizen of the Karuk Tribe and works as a paralegal specializing in tribal affairs. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and has been published in Asimov’s, Apex, and has a story forthcoming in Fantasy M...

"Cottonmouth" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 125, September 2021.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/cottonmouth

Please note that this story includes racial violence against Black people and references to slavery.

Joelle Wellington grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her childhood was spent wandering the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Her love of the written word led her to a B.A. in ...