Apparition Literary Magazine

*blows layer of dust off bluesky account We're also eligible for 2024 awards for semi-pro stuff. If'n, in all the current chaos, you wanted to throw a little love towards the little reading ghostie, perennial, outsider, underdog.

post a short story you love @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/bride-knife-... I still think about this story on a weekly basis.

Awards eligibility for 2024!! Honored to be published by @apexmag.bsky.social , @kaleidotrope.bsky.social , @apparitionlit.com , and @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this year ❤️ links to all stories can be found on my website!

Finally ordered a physical copy of the @apparitionlit.com Resistance issue with my story in it. There she is now, wudja look at her 😭

It’s the most wonderful(?) time of the year…award eligibility post time! I have one poem out this year; ‘Replacement Rainforests’ (in @apparitionlit.com). Please keep it in mind if you’re nominating for 2025 awards 🙏

Poetry: "On brutal wing" (2021), one of my longest poems, is a blank-verse narrative which appeared in the brilliant @apparitionlit.com -- a magazine I'm really going to miss.

aaaaa!! i forgot once again (i had a major surgery 14 days after the magazine published), that i also had the *immense honor* of doing a *bucket list thing* and was Guest Editor for the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL ISSUE www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1G9MZL

Awards eligibility post 💜 This year I published 3 poems and 1 short story: Poems: ♠️ How Did I Die This Time? - @apparitionlit.com apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-di... ♠️ specular she (personal fave, @sfpoetry.bsky.social hiii) - @smallwondersmag.com smallwondersmag.com/piece/specul...

The first one in the series - "Anticaprice / Chemical Engineering Mage" in @apparitionlit.com in the issue guest-edited by @kurellian.bsky.social! (there is no particular reading order to those pieces and I might rearrange them entirely for a little book later.) apparitionlit.com/anticaprice-...

Beautifully crafted prose rounds out our 2024 Flash Fiction competition - Dec winning story "We All Feed the Motherwood" by @akstories.bsky.social follows rituals of a society of murder trees. It is fitting as the last story we'll ever publish! Free online today! apparitionlit.com/we-all-feed-...

Very honoured that the lovely folks at @apparitionlit.com have nominated my short story for the Pushcart Prize, I was not expecting this ☺️

So very honored to hear that my short story “The City and the Styrofoam Sea” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Thanks to @apparitionlit.com for the nom! apparitionlit.com/the-city-and... Go, little story, go!

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "See Ya Later" by Amy Henry Robinson apparitionlit.com/final-editorial-… @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Essay "The Stories I Tell Myself" by Jennifer Hudak apparitionlit.com/the-stories-i-te… @jenniferhudak.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Thank you for Your Service" by August Cao apparitionlit.com/thank-you-for-yo…

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "The Pancake House at the End of the World" by L.M. Guay apparitionlit.com/the-pancake-hous… @nightgleaming.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Gutted" by Cameron E Quinn apparitionlit.com/gutted @thecameronquinn.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Skittering Within" by Kelsea Yu apparitionlit.com/skittering-withi… @anovelescape.bsky.social

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "How Did I Die This Time" by Anne Liberton apparitionlit.com/how-did-i-die-th… @anneliberton.bsky.social

I love the voice so much, I love this robot so much 😭

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Robot Malfunctions in Want of Locks and Braids" by Timi Sanni apparitionlit.com/the-robot-malfun… @timisanni.bsky.social

I loved writing this story and I'm so happy it found a perfect home in @apparitionlit.com's final issue. Give it a read if you're interested moons that mess up the world 😏🌛

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Estelle" by Carol Duncan apparitionlit.com/estelle/

The forest has spoken! It also did a bunch of other things. Sorry, no take-backsies now.

This is a MUST READ 💙💙💙

This was something we tried to address at @apparitionlit.com by hiring guest editors for our issues. We wanted to: - teach what we knew - work with a range a diverse voices - pay for their work Every editor taught us something.

Proud (and a wee bit sad) to be part of @apparitionlit.com's last issue as well as its first. Replacement Rainforests spells out what might happen when bigwigs decide old growth can be replaced with something "better". (Spoiler: the forest thinks the same)

Stave off hunger with the October flash fiction winning story The Bread of Life from Katherine Frain free to read online today!! apparitionlit.com/bread-of-life/

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "Replacement Rainforests" by May Chong apparitionlit.com/replacement-rain… @maychong.bsky.social

Very sad to see Apparition close their doors. They published one of my very first stories, and I loved working with their team. Rest well. You've worked hard. ♥️

Writers: repost a random story you're proud of. Earlier this year the wonderful @apparitionlit.com opened its pages to my odd little tale The Other Sky apparitionlit.com/the-other-sky/

I have a piece coming out in this one! @aureliusr2.bsky.social had such nice things to say about it in his editorial (seriously, thank you) and I'm taking steps to ensure...shall we say...that you can follow his provided suggestions. Soon. :3

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Short Story "Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City" by Madeehah Reza apparitionlit.com/our-last-evening…

Free to read online today! ISSUE 28: HARBINGER Poem "The Siren’s Song" by Marilia Angeline apparitionlit.com/the-sirens-song/

Issue 28: Harbinger closes with a beautiful, bittersweet essay by co-founder and senior editor @amyhenryrobinson.bsky.social. No one worked harder, and Apparition Lit wouldn't have made it 7 years without her (literal) blood, sweat, tears, encouragement, advocacy, and passion.

Fun fact: Apparition Lit was my first paid publication, back in their first issue. I could not have asked for a more warm and supportive introduction to the industry. I am honored to appear in their final issue as well, and I will miss the mag more than I can say 💙

Issue #2 will be edited by @speculativekane.bsky.social. A reader here at FF since the start of 2024, C.A. has been published in @apparitionlit.com. Full guidelines can be found at sarossf.com/submissions/

We couldn't be happier to have Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social as our Harbinger guest essayist. She was a part of our first issue, is now part of our last, and, whether she knows it or not, is a founding member of our little Apparition Lit community.

My latest speculative short fiction roundup features stories from @apparitionlit.com @nightmare-magazine.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social @seizethepress.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social & more! maria-is-reading.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-s...