Abyssapex Zine ★Work published here has won or been selected for: Hugo Award (Best Semiprozine, nom…, Rhysling Award (nominations), Best of the Net (nominations).

Strong, emotionally resonant, literary-quality poetry with a clear speculative element, including fantasy, science fiction, or surrealism; poetry reading periods are the entire months of November and May. No format or length restrictions, though traditional-form poems should generally have at least 9 lines and prose poems at least 50 words. No horror or AI-generated or previously published poems.

Genre short fiction and flash fiction with a required speculative element; fiction reading periods are February 1–7 and August 1–7, 2027. Stories may be up to 10,000 words; flash fiction is 1,000 words or less. No horror, zombies, elves, retold fairy tales, sports, westerns, werewolves, vampires, gratuitous sex or violence, or severely political stories.