Apex Magazine

Submission Guidelines for Apex Magazine

Our magazine is an SFWA-certified professional market.

Editor-in-chief: Lesley Conner

Apex Magazine does not accept submissions of any kind that were written, developed or assisted by tools such as ChatGPT. While we love publishing and reading stories about AI, we want them created and conceived by flesh and blood beings. Any attempt to submit AI-aided work may result in being permanently banned from our magazine.

ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION

1) Submit your work in Shunn Standard Manuscript Format (Modern or Classic). Your manuscript should be in DOC, DOCX, RTF, or ODT file format.

2) Maximum word length is a firm 9,000 words. Anything more will be auto-rejected.

3) Payment for original fiction is $.08 per word up to 9,000 words. Minimum of $50.

4) If we podcast your story, additional payment is $.01 per word up to 9,000 words.

5) If the work you are submitting is an English translation, please include the translator name and email address either in your cover letter or within your manuscript. By submitting, you are verifying in good faith that you have the right to have your translated work published in Apex Magazine.

6) Apex Magazine welcomes and encourages submissions from writers of all races, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and military status. We want diverse voices. We value diverse voices. Saying that, please be aware that we do not collect any information that might clue our editors to any of these attributes other than your name, email, address, and cover letter before any decisions are made regarding your submission.

7) Ready to submit your work? Head over to our Moksha account and upload your story!

Stories submitted by email or sent via the postal service will be disposed of unread.

REPRINTS

We do not accept unsolicited reprints.

PATREON POLICY

Our policy on work published to Patreon is that the story will be treated as a reprint and will be paid at our reprint rate. If you're a pro-level writer with a Patreon (by SFWA affiliate standards), and you have a story you'd like us to consider, please query first.

POETRY

We currently do not publish poetry.

RIGHTS AND RULES

No multi-submissions for short fiction. We try to respond to all submissions within 60 days. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we ask you to withdraw as soon as possible if it is accepted elsewhere. Works under consideration by Lesley Conner may take longer.