Our Story
The Swamp Ape is a legend that reflects the liminal space of South Florida—its mythology and its weirdness—as well as the human desire to create a narrative around that which we can’t explain. It is an emblem for the othered and the alien. We hope our magazine will serve as a beacon for that which hides in the shadows or basks in the sun. Across all genres (especially our Swamp genre), you will find pieces of a hybrid or non-traditional nature—works that subvert our expectations of both content and form and unsettle our assumptions of what is possible.
We are especially interested in publishing the work of writers from under-represented backgrounds and identities.