Interviews

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

APEX MAGAZINE

Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.

Interviews with writers and artists

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Tom Edwards

I wanted to at least try and do my own thing, and here I am 9 years later. It was probably the best decision I’ve made in my career.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Sara S. Messenger

It felt like the details were forming a relay race, where the baton they were passing off to each other was the reader’s understanding. I had to keep adjusting the racers.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Kanishk Tantia

“Those Left Behind” by Kanishk Tantia is a thoughtful, gentle story about both humans and machines navigating grief, love, and loss in their own ways. At its heart, it is also a coming-of-age story for a machine, if machines can…

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Natasha King

In the original story, Tấm persists through multiple deaths and remains happily married to the king. The exploration I set out to make was: what if she was just a little bit angrier, just a little bit more reckless?

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Caroline Jamhour

I feel like my characters come both from me and through me. It’s like my inner world is bigger than myself.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Nika Murphy

There was a video going around early on in the invasion of a young Russian soldier being surrounded and fed by a bunch of Ukrainian women. That’s the epitome of the Ukrainian spirit.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Elisabeth Ring

Every relationship is going to have moments of conflict and impatience; the way those are handled in the moment, and afterward, is what separates the healthy relationships from the toxic ones.

ByMarissa van Uden

An interview with nadine bango by marissa van wende.

Interview with Author Nadia Bongo

What I discovered about the character is really that love of listening. It developed as I wrote the story.

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Adrian Borda

I find it impossible to find a meaningful starting point to my journey in art, and there might never be a clear end of it.