Preorders are now open for ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Please support our little imprint and this series by preordering -- it makes a huge difference to the success of the books. And you get 30% off the price ✨🦋🌿

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · last wk.

The ecofiction season is upon us! 🌸🐛🌟 The next installment in our annual ECO anthology series is available for preorder NOW! Click the link below and grab your copy of ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION today! 🌱📚🌙 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

important announcement from the Apex and Violet Lichen teams!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽

Apex Book Company is excited to announce the acquisition of LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO by @chesyaburke.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO explores the experiences of Black women in America through the dual lenses of short horror fiction and nonfiction essays. Scheduled for release June 2027!

Press Release: Apex Book Company Acquires LET'S PLAY WHITE, TOO by Che

For Immediate Release: June 16th, 2026 Lexington, KY:  Apex Book Company is excited to announce the acquisition of Let's Play White, Too by Chesya Burke. Following her trailblazing previous title, Let...

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I’m gonna be dusting off my reviewing hat over the next few weeks in the Seize The Press newsletter. I’ve read some great stuff recently and the first books I’ll be reviewing are OLYOKE by Vincent Endwell, PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements, and THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes.

Samir is an excellent writer in a way that could almost feel unfair, like wait hold up where did you even pick up this dark alchemy?? From what realm?? Except we can't be mad about it bc we get all these wild Samir stories to read, so it's win/win. Anyway this is a REALLY GOOD DOLLAR to spend 🔥🔥

Samir Sirk Morató@spicycloaca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

today, you can access nineteen moist & miserable (sometimes joyous) short stories for less than $1, which i think is a great deal! ✨️🥩

Damn, Earth is such a cool planet. You can just look out the window and be fully hypnotized by what the plants did to this place

We only run two author interviews per issue in Apex, but I would love if we could do more for the August issue. Every story is bizarre and metaphorical and twisty, and I would love see how @marissavu.bsky.social dug into each of them. Her conversations with our authors are outstanding!

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

The wonderful Mary Woodbury of @dragonfly.eco & the Rewilding Our Stories community interviewed me about the Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction anthologies! Check it out here, & join the discord for group readalongs of ecofiction like ECO24. It's a great community of nature-loving readers 💚🌿🦋

Dragonfly@dragonfly.eco · 2mo ago

Check out my chat with Marissa van Uden, publisher at Violet Lichen press: dragonfly.eco/eco24-25-the... Violet Lichen publishes dark, #literary, #weird books and focuses on speculative #ecofiction, weird and new weird, and moody science fiction with uniquely memorable characters

Cover reveal for THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by the amazing @raemariz.bsky.social!! 🖤🌿🦋🐜🍄🖤

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶 Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Coming February 2027!

"As a thirtysomething bookworm who comes across as a younger adult-under-construction . . . Jane is a character after my own heart." 💜🌌 Thank you to @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy for the wonderful review of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social! Full review here ⬇️

Hi! I'm a first reader at @apexmag.bsky.social. I've read 1,668 stories for Apex. This is the best one. www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

My Suicides

I don’t know if, in the beginning, it was that they promised me anything, or if I imagined they promised me something. At the...

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This book is beautiful - I read an early draft and knew it was special. Can't wait to read a final version

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

ICYMI, ECO25 editor Marissa Van Uden chose two stories from Reckoning 9 to include in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction: "The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social and "We Will Not Dream of Coral" by @mariocoelho.bsky.social! Congratulations, friends!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

So hyped for this!! Best of the year anthologies are such an important part of genre history and the ECO24 was sooooooo good!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

🛸 congrats to @parkeriswriting.bsky.social on Eco25!! 🛸 read his NS piece here: www.nightshadesmag.com/ns-something...

SOMETHING'S IN THE WATER

By Parker M. O'Neill Dad is driving out to the swamp again. Loads the Elantra up with empty camping jugs and boxes of coffee cups and hits the road; bet you’re glad that you hid that tracker in his t...

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Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌱 4/6

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

"A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World" is in this-- it's another of my Salish Sea stories, from my 2025 collection THE OTHER SHORE. The story is creepy and allowed me to write scraps of modernist poetry, which I loved. And how cool is it that we have a Year's Best Ecofiction?

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

I'm honored to have "All That Means or Mourns" alongside these great stories!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Hyped to have a story in here, and to share a ToC with so many great authors!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Extremely honored to have a story in ECO25! Look at this ToC it’s next level!! Congrats everybody! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

i hope y'all are excited to read this sick-ass anthology & see the cover i've cooked up for this one! 👁📷🏃‍♂️

Cursed Morsels@cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not only is @spicycloaca.bsky.social the author and artist for Gore Poetics; they're also the cover designer for Under a Malevolent Eye, coming later this summer. Lemme tell ya, this cover ruuuuuuules!

very excited about this issue! i love this idea of blending solarpunk & horror. It's something the judges & I talked about while reading for ECO25, that we'd love to see how hopeful solarpunk futures & settings can be blended with horror/weird storytelling & darker premises. Can't wait to read this🔥

Solarpunk Magazine@solarpunklitmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/2 Our last submission window for our special Solarpunk Horror issue will be open from July 1-14, and our the issue will be published the first Tuesday in November. #solarpunk #horror #SolarpunkMagazine

Wooo! That's "Exhibition" by @lxuwrites.bsky.social from Saros SF #1, edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social, in the final TOC for Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌱 2/6

Huge congrats all around! This is an excellent TOC. And look at that cover art! Last year's book was great. Looking forward to spending time with this year's! @apexmag.bsky.social @marissavu.bsky.social

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Congratulations to the finalists!!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Congrats to everyone in this anthology! What a cool line up!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Apex and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the final Table of Contents for the next installment of our ECO anthology series, ECO25! 🌱🎉 Narrowing down our exceptional shortlist was incredibly difficult, and we thank and congratulate all who submitted their stories to us! Se the full TOC below! 🧵

Ivy Grimes on weird girl fiction[music]! "Lately, I've been listening to some of my favorite songs in adolescence, and I can see deep connections between that music and one of my favorite genres of speculative fiction."

Ivy Grimes@ivygrimes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is an essay about weird girl fiction, and it could also be my entry application into the Tori Amos fan club

Congrats to all the finalists!!

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌱 5/6

Delighted to say that MALO MALO MALO MALO is a finalist in ECO25! Really excited to be part of the finished anthology among great company.

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌱 4/6