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- Why A University Paid Best-selling Author (and RYA instructor!) Carlos Hernandez to Make a Game—video interview with Outland's Tara Cloud Clark
- AUGUST 14: Playful Storytelling - Fresh Ideas From Other Genres, with award-winning authors Carlos Hernandez and C.S.E. Cooney—registration open
- Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon
- Coming August 29: Elevate Your Stories Using The Art Of Pacing, with Editor-In-Chief of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Tristan Evarts—registration open
- Exciting contest judged by Kim Stanley Robinson open for submissions.
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Outland's Tara Cloud Clark sits down with author and game developer Carlos Hernadez to discuss his upcoming storytelling RPG Negocios Infernales, how he got his university to pay him to develop it, and the intersection of education and games. [YouTube video]
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Second August Workshop Announced
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July is almost over, which means school is back in session at Reach Your Apex. Our first workshop in August is Playful Storytelling - Fresh Ideas From Different Genres led by award-winning authors Carlos Hernandez and C.S.E. Cooney.
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Explore exciting ways for your creativity and writing skills to find expression in 21st-century genres. Cooney and Hernandez walk you through writing across the continuum: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, roleplaying games, and more. Short exercises centering solid world-building and vigorous language provide delightful, playful tools for your writer's toolbox. The workshop is open to writers of all levels of experience.
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Claire and Carlos have over 50 years combined experience in fiction, poetry, comics, game writing, and drama. They have won awards for their writing and have published with major publishing houses. They’re also very different writers from each other. This unique dual perspective provides a wide panoply of ideas applicable to your own writing practices.
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You’ll leave this workshop inspired, brimming with ideas, and with the spirt of play that is bound to feed your creative self. Get $10 off using coupon code PLAYNL10.
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Markets and Contests
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Many thanks to Scribophile for sponsoring this week's open submissions. Scribophile is a free welcoming community of writers where you're guaranteed to get solid critiques on your work. You can also get 20% off your first purchase using coupon code APEX20.
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- 🖋️ Only Poems is open to submissions of up to 10 pages of poetry in any style. To avoid their submissions fee, send them your work during their free period until July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🧚🏻♀️ Family, Fae, Fiend, Friend, and Foe is a forthcoming anthology of supernatural tales. Send them stories between 4,000 and 5,000 words before July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🍵 Judy Magazine is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, prose poetry, and… recipes! They accept up to 5,000 words per submission. No submissions fee!
- 💫 Et Sequitur Magazine has a unique model in which each published story jumps off an element of the previous one — a common character, setting, or theme. Check out their most recent issue for inspiration and then send them a related short story of up to 2,500 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🧝🏻♂️ New Myths is looking for fantasy and science fiction short stories of up to 10,000 words. Their current window closes on July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🏕️ About Place Journal is looking for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the theme of “On Freedom.” Send them prose writing of up to 4,000 words, or up to three poems of up to 50 lines each, before August 1st. No submissions fee!
- 🌲 wildness is open to submissions of poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send them up to 1,000 words of prose writing or up to five poems. No submissions fee!
- 🏚️ Maudlin House is looking for “transgressive, absurdist, and minimalist literature.” Send them short stories of up to 3,500 words, or up to five poems. No submissions fee!
- 📖 The Rumpus is open to submissions of short literary fiction, comics, poems, and essays. Send them stories or essays of up to 5,000 words, comics of any length, or up to 12 pages of poetry. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🧟♀️ Monstrous Books is looking for short horror scripts to be adapted into graphic form for an upcoming anthology. Send them up to eight pages before July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 👻 Ghost Parachute seeks “unapologetically bold” flash fiction of up to 1,000 words. No submissions fee!
- 📚 Schaffner Press is open to direct submissions of full-length literary, crime, and historical fiction, as well as non-fiction books and short story collections. Send them a detailed query letter. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
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Registration Open
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August 29 we're excited to bring Editor-In-Chief of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Tristan Evarts to the Reach Your Apex community. Register for his pacing workshop today and get $10 off using coupon code AOPNL10.
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A top reason stories get rejected is problematic pacing. Join Utopia Science Fiction's editor-in-chief, Tristan Evarts to explore the art of pacing. Break pacing into digestible pieces and learn effective ways to find and fix pacing problems in your fiction. Leave with a solid understanding of and approach to pacing that’ll help you take your stories to the next level.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is launching a short fiction contest called “Write Before Midnight," which will be judged by acclaimed American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. Prizes are $3,000 for first place, with $500 each to four runners-up. Stories can be any length up to 7,000 words. The deadline is September 30, 2025.
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