Apex Magazine publishes genre short fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and reviews. Our short fiction has won many of the genre's top literary awards including the Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish bi-monthly. Apex Magazine Promo 2020 is a special mini-issue to promote the relaunch of the magazine proper (coming in January, 2021). This mini-issue contains two original works and a round table discussion with our hardworking slush reader team. TABLE OF CONTENTS SHORT FICTION The Legacy of Alexandria by Maurice Broaddus Small Hopes and Dreams by Beth Dawkins NONFICTION A Round Table Discussion with the Apex Magazine Slush Team by Lesley Conner

This issue is packed with features! Our cover artist is the very well known Yogi Barrett. Interviewed by Dan Henk, we dig into how Barrett developed his unique “mixed style tattooing”. Then we get an exclusive peek at “Rabbit Season” a beautiful new painting by world renown fine artist, Craola. Our studio tour takes us through Evan Olin’s exquisite Powerline Tattoos in Cranston, Rhode Island where we explore his shop and the work of all of his artists. We visit Brandon Bond’s All Or Nothing Tattoo Studio in Smyrna, Georgia to reflect on his “20 Years Of Raising The Bar.“ Ian Robert Mckown gives us an amazing narrative about whether it’s better to be a “Jack Of All Trades Or A Master Of One”. We take a walk through the VillainArts Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention and chat with Myke Chambers and Phil Garcia. In our Music&Ink section we sit down with Chis Volz from Flaw and Hugo Ferreira from Tantric to ask them a few questions. Then be sure to check out all the phenomenal tattoo work packed into this issue by Corpsepainter, Alexander Suvorov, Alvaro Lara, Nathan Marti, Steven Rorschach, Jay “Mazing” Myers, Frank Miller, Oleg Black, Lydia Madrid, and Reese Hilburn.

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories awaits in Alix E. Harrow's spellbinding debut--step inside and discover its magic.

Women's Studies Serials: A Quarter-Century of Development examines the history, growth, and present status of women's studies collections available in the United States and around the world. This text investigates the accessibility to women's studies periodicals, how they are used and by whom, and identifies areas where further research is needed to help collection managers and librarians make the best selection decisions for their serials collections. Women's Studies Serials will help you choose serials that meet the needs of your patrons and that comply with the limitations of your budget. Offering you charts, tables, and statistical data, Women's Studies Serials covers many topics that will help you build a thorough and accessible women's studies collection or renovate an existing collection, including: the problems, influences, and expectations involved in women's studies faculty's daily work with magazines and journals choosing the best CD-Rom products for women's studies research based on cost, coverage, content, and recommendations for acquisition techniques and insights for teaching cataloging in an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and evolving information environment examining academic women's studies serials on the World Wide Web and determining whether they are helpful to students and faculty suggestions that may alleviate the inadequacies of subject description and access to current periodical literature concerning African-American women and Latinas in the United States how women's studies serials published in Ireland are adding support and recognition to the discipline of women's studies examining popular women's periodicals in the Popular Culture Collection at Bowling Green State University and how they help reveal and document the history of women's roles in society the management and collection methods of the International Centre and Archives of the Women's Studies Movement located in the NetherlandsProviding you with information on how other academic libraries choose their collection material, Women's Studies Serials will help you determine what journals in your library are most widely read and if they are meeting the informational and research needs of faculty and students. The information in Women's Studies Serials will help make your women's studies serials current, cost-efficient, and relevant to your patrons’needs.

In a dystopian austerity-ravaged London, disgraced former police officer Brook fights as an indentured boxer. Does he dare to trust privileged barrister Nathaniel, who thinks he can free him?

A collection of essays by award-winning women writers and artists celebrating the comics medium and its creators.

In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn’t the descent of rival policemen that makes Pel’s blood boil – crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles. On top of all this, it’s down to Pel to unravel the riddles of a robbery on the road to Dijon airport and mysterious shootings in an iron foundry. And as if that wasn’t enough, the Chief Inspector must deal with the misadventures of the delightfully handsome Sergeant Misset and his red-haired lover. Moody, sharp-tongued and worrying constantly about his health, Inspector Pel ensures that no case goes unsolved, in these mordantly witty French mysteries. Praise for the Inspector Pel Mystery series: ‘Totally convincing.’ Financial Times ‘Mr Hebden has created a nice band of flics.’ Oxford Times ‘Pel and his procedurals are some of the best things since Maigret.’ Observer ‘Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel, as well rounded a character as Maigret or Van der Valk.’ Punch ‘Impeccable French ambience, unexaggerated flics, and a well-constructed solution. Hebden proves again that few understand Gallic cops better than English writers!’ The Times ‘Some characters grow as their saga lengthens and Pel... is one of them. You might say he is ripening along with the grapes.’ Police Review ‘...written with downbeat humour and some delightful dialogue.’ Financial Times ‘...all is most cunningly contrived and dovetailed into a coherent plot.’ Irish Times ‘A thoroughly entertaining read.’ Evening Standard ‘The best Gallic sleuth since Maigret.’ London Mystery Selection

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.