Awards and Nominations

Hugo Awards

2016 — Winner for Best Novelette: Ursula Vernon • The Tomato Thief  • Apex Magazine 80

2014 — Nomination for Best Semiprozine: Apex Magazine, editors Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore, and Michael Damian Thomas

2014 — Nomination for Best Short Story: Rachel Swirsky • “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” • Apex Magazine 46

2013 — Nomination for Best Semiprozine: Apex Magazine, editors Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore, and Michael Damian Thomas

2012 — Nomination for Best Semiprozine: Apex Magazine, editors Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Thomas, and Jason Sizemore

 

Nebula Awards

Winner (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “Jackalope Wives” • Apex Magazine 56

Winner (Best Short Story): Rachel Swirsky • “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” • Apex Magazine 46

Nomination (Best Short Story): Jennifer Pelland • “Ghosts of New York” • Apex Magazine 23

Nomination (Best Short Story): Amal El-Mohtar • “The Green Book” • Apex Magazine 18

 

Shirley Jackson Awards

Nomination (Best Short Fiction): Shannon Peavy • “A Beautiful Memory” • Apex Magazine 70

Nomination (Best Short Fiction): Chikodili Emelumadu • “Candy Girl” • Apex Magazine 66

 

Aurealis Awards

Nomination (Best Horror Short Story): Lisa L. Hannett • “Heirloom Pieces” • Apex Magazine 69

Nomination (Best Young Adult Short Story): Liz Argall • “Falling Leaves” • Apex Magazine 60

 

WSFA Awards

Winner (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “The Tomato Thief” • Apex Magazine 80

Winner (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “Jackalope Wives” • Apex Magazine 56

Nomination (Best Short Story): Catherynne M. Valente • “The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” • Apex Magazine 12

 

Eugie Awards

Nomination (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “Pocosin” • Apex Magazine 68

 

Million Writers Award

Nomination: Amal El-Mohtar • “The Green Book” • Apex Magazine 18

 

Cóyotl Award

Winner (Best Short Story): Ursula Vernon • “Jackalope Wives” • Apex Magazine 56

 

The Bram Stoker Awards

Nomination (Outstanding Achievement in Short Fiction): Annie Neugebauer • “So Sings the Siren” • Apex Magazine 101

Nomination: Damien Angelica Walters • Sing Me Your Scars

 

This is Horror Awards

Winner (Fiction Magazine of the Year) • Apex Magazine 2015

 

Shadows Award

Nomination (Best Short Fiction): Helen Stubbs • “Uncontainable” • Apex Magazine 91

 

Darrell Awards

Nomination (Best Short Fiction): John Hornor Jacobs • “Luminaria” • Apex Magazine 94

 

Rhysling Award (Poetry)

Nomination (Short Form Poem): Jeremy Paden• “Song of the Encantado” • Apex Magazine 83

Nomination (Long Form Poem): Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • “Conservation of Energy” • Apex Magazine 63

Winner (Short Form Poem): Amal El-Mohtar • “Turning the Leaves” • Apex Magazine 54

Nomination (Long Form Poem): Catherynne M. Valente • “A Great Clerk of Necromancy” • Apex Magazine 50

Nomination (Short Form Poem): Amal El-Mohtar • “No Poisoned Comb” • Apex Magazine 35

Nomination (Short Form Poem): Tim Pratt • “Lion Heart” • Apex Magazine 30

Nomination (Short Form Poem): Elizabeth McClellan • “Down Cycles” • Apex Magazine 27

Nomination (Long Form Poem): Elizabeth McClellan • “The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos” • Apex Magazine 24

Nomination (Long Form Poem): Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace • “The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves” • Apex Magazine 22

Nomination (Short Form Poem): Nicole Korhner-Stace • “The Witch’s Heart” • Apex Magazine 21

Nomination (Long Form Poem): Elizabeth R. McClellan • “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” • Apex Magazine 17

3rd Place, Short Form Poem: C.S.E. Cooney • “Dogstar Men” • Apex Magazine 15

 

Chesley Award (Artwork)

Nomination (Best Magazine Cover): Carly B. Sorge — Apex Magazine 28 cover art