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Jason Sizemore

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://www.jason-sizemore.com

Twitter

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories

Influences

Mary Doria Russell, Richard K. Morgan, Aldous Huxley, Maurice Broaddus ...more

Member Since

May 2011

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I was born the son of an unemployed coal miner in a tiny Kentucky Appalachian villa named Big Creek (population 400). It’s an isolated area with beautiful rolling hills, thick forests, and country folk. I lived in Big Creek until I went to college, spending my weekends cruising the Winn Dixie parking lot of ladies, partying in my cousin’s run-down three room trailer, and being a member of the bad-ass Clay County High School Academic Team.

College was quite a shock for me. Girls! Minorities! Strip clubs! And it didn’t help that I attended Transylvania University, a fairly snotty (but excellent) private college in Lexington, KY (on scholarship… no way my family could have sent me otherwise). I graduated in the standard four years with a degree ...more

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	Apex Magazine, Issue 99 August 2017 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Roanhorse (Goodreads Author), Allison Mills 4.12 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.49 avg rating — 1,018 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 121 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author), Merc Fenn Wolfmoor 4.42 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 80 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ursula Vernon (Contributor), Lettie Prell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maurice Broaddus (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 149 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar 3.20 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mountain Dead by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), K. Allen Wood (Goodreads Author), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine Issue 92 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James Beamon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Amanda Pekar (Contributor) 4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Apex Magazine 2025 Kickstarter

Running a digital literary zine is rewarding, fulfilling work. I’ve been doing it in one version or another since 2011.

It’s also quite difficult to finance.

Back in 2022, Lesley Conner and I elected to make a run at trying to build a subscriber base large enough to solely support the zine’s costs. We fell short and all of 2024 has been a scramble for the company to find enough money to pay everybod

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