Jason Sizemore is an American writer and editor based in
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
. He is the owner and managing editor of Apex Publications.
Early life
Sizemore was born in
Big Creek, Kentucky
Big Creek is a long creek in Kentucky, United States whose headwaters are in Leslie County and that flows into the Red Bird River in Clay County.
A postoffice and village are named for it.
Its own name is likely purely descriptive of its frequen ...
(pop. 400).
Career
Sizemore was the editor and publisher of ''
Apex Digest
''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several awa ...
'', a quarterly
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
and
horror digest that ran for 12 issues between 2005 and 2008. As the publisher/managing editor of ''
Apex Magazine
''Apex Magazine'', also previously known as ''Apex Digest'', is an American horror and science fiction magazine. This subscription webzine, ''Apex Magazine'', contains short fiction, reviews, and interviews. It has been nominated for several awa ...
'', he was nominated for the
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...
in the semiprozine category in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
As a writer he has published several stories in genre magazines. His first short story collection, ''Irredeemable'',
was published in April, 2014.
Bibliography
Collections
* ''Irredeemable'' (2014) .
Fiction
* ''Life Imitating Art'', Version 1A – ''The Lunatic Chameleon'', Issue Two.
* ''Life Imitating Art'', Version 1B – ''Whispers of Wickedness''.
* ''The Boiler Room'' – ''Lost in the Dark'' (no longer published).
* ''Gus's Good day'' – ''Swamp.net'' (no longer published).
* ''Blue Lights'' – ''The Wheel'', Spring 2005.
* ''Preacher Ira May Bowling'' – ''Mt. Zion Press'', Issue #1.
* ''Faithless'' – ''Surreal'', Issue #4
* ''The Sleeping Quartet'' – ''Forgotten Worlds'', Issue #6
* ''An Ingenious Adventure'' – ''Future Syndicate Anthology'' (2007).
* ''The Horror of It All'' (''Four Sizemore Stories'')
* ''Breaking Up Is Hard to Do''
* ''God Needs Not The Future'' - ''Streets of Shadows'' (2014).
* ''Yellow Warblers'' (2009).
Nonfiction
* ''Silent Hill Game reviews'' – Issue #9, City Slab
* ''Resident Evil Game Reviews'' – Issue #8, City Slab
Books edited
* ''
Aegri Somnia
''Aegri Somnia'' is an anthology of horror stories edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth, and published by Apex Books in 2006. The twelve stories in this collection were all written by different authors. In 2006, ''Aegri Somnia'' was nom ...
'' (with Gill Ainsworth) (2006).
* ''Gratia Placenti: For the Sake of Pleasing'' (with Gill Ainsworth) (2007).
* ''Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine'' Vol. 1 (with Gill Ainsworth) (2008).
* ''Apexology: Horror'' (2010).
* ''Dark Futures: Tales of SF Dystopia'' (2010).
* ''The Zombie Feed'' Vol. 1 (2011).
* ''Appalachian Undead'' (with
Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry (born May 18, 1958) is an American suspense author, anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. He was named one of the Today's Top Ten Horror Writers.
...
) (2013).
References
External links
Apex MagazineApex Book CompanyJason Sizemore's home page
Interviews
Fantasy Magazine InterviewSouthsider Magazine InterviewSF Signal Interview
Writers from Lexington, Kentucky
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Male speculative fiction editors
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