Abyss & Apex magazine Opens Short Reading Period for Speculative Fiction Stories - Pays 6 cents/word
Abyss & Apex, a Hugo-Nominated speculative fiction magazine, has opened a 7-day reading period to curate fiction stories only. The quarterly publication pays strong attention to character-driven stories that explore the recesses and peaks of emotion and motivation from a wide range of cultural and social contexts.
Led by Editor and Publisher Wendy S. Delmater, the staff likes to read descriptive world-building stories in many spec fiction genres, including slipstream, dark fantasy, magical realism, hard/soft science fiction, urban fantasy, military science fiction, and so on.