Snap Judgement is a quarterly live stream featuring three professional editors who offer feedback on the first page (up to 250 words) on unpublished genre short stories submitted by Apex Magazine subscribers and Patreon backers.
Our second Snap Judgement event was held Sunday, October 31st, 2021. Our host and narrator for the event was KT Bryski and featured special guest panelist editor Wendy Wagner, publisher and editor of Nightmare Magazine!
How IT WORKS
Our host read the submissions aloud to the panel. The excerpts are presented without any identifying information to the panelists and viewers. If at any point our panelists feel they would stop reading and reject the piece, they raise their hand. If all three hands are raised, our narrator stops reading.
Each panelist then gives feedback on the 250-word opening: what works, what doesn’t, and what could be done to improve it. Don’t expect our panelists to be a mean group, but do expect them to be honest and truthful when it comes to assessing the work.
participant BIOS
Host & Narrator – KT Bryski
KT Bryski is a Canadian author, playwright, and podcaster. She has stories in many short fiction publications, and her audio dramas Coxwood History Fun Park and Six Stories, Told at Night are available wherever fine podcasts are found.
Special Guest – Wendy Wagner
Wendy N. Wagner is a writer and Hugo award-winning editor. She is the author of nearly fifty short stories and two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game. Her third novel, An Oath of Dogs, came out July 2017 from Angry Robot Books. An avid gamer and gardener, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very understanding family. Follow her on Twitter @wnwagner.
Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore
Jason Sizemore is the publisher of Apex Book Company and Apex Magazine. He is a former editor-in-chief of Apex Magazine and currently functions as the editor-in-chief of Apex Book Company.
Lesley Conner is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning genre short fiction publication Apex Magazine.
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