{"id":2,"date":"2022-01-12T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:41:01","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" id=\"custom-background-css\">\nbody.custom-background { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/deschampignonscatladesc_0023-e1645732529426.jpeg\"); background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>hex<\/em> publishes very short speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We like it weird. <a href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.submittable.com\">Submit here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>hex<\/em> started in 2022 and is based at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are on Bluesky and Instagram @hexliterary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Honors<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Work first published in <em>hex<\/em> has been included in <em>Best Small Fictions<\/em>, <em>Best Microfiction<\/em>, <em>Brave New Weird<\/em>, <em>Poetry Daily, Speculative Fiction: A Writer\u2019s Guide and Anthology (<\/em>Bloomsbury<em>)<\/em>, and <em>Wigleaf Top 50<\/em>. See the full list of awards and honors <a href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?page_id=3167\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Staff<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kate McIntyre<\/strong> is a past managing editor of the <em>Missouri Review<\/em> and past editor of the <em>Worcester Review<\/em>. She is the author of <em>Mad Prairie<\/em> (UGA Press 2021), a linked story collection that won the Flannery O\u2019Connor Award. She is an associate professor at WPI. Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/katemcintyrewriting.com\">katemcintyrewriting.com<\/a> Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/katemcintyre.bsky.social\">@katemcintyre.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joe Aguilar<\/strong> has writing in <em>Conjunctions, Strange Horizons<\/em> and <em>HAD<\/em>. He&#8217;s an associate professor of teaching at WPI. Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/joe-aguilar.com\">joe-aguilar.com<\/a> Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/joeaguilar.bsky.social\">@joeaguilar.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel Miller<\/strong> teaches English at Central Methodist University.&nbsp;He previously served as Audio Editor for the <em>Missouri Review<\/em> and read submissions for <em>PANK<\/em>. His fiction has appeared on <em>Conjunctions<\/em>, <em>Heavy Feather Review<\/em>, and <em>Puerto del Sol<\/em>. Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ybbul7ggxkemsmmi5a4mi7lw\">@danielmiller.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contributing editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michelle Ephraim<\/strong> is the author of <em>Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage<\/em> (Routledge 2008), <em>Shakespeare, Not Stirred<\/em> (Penguin\/Scribe 2015), and <em>Green World<\/em> (2023 Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction). A professor at WPI, she teaches courses in literature, creative nonfiction,&nbsp;and speculative fiction writing. Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/michelleephraim.com\">michelleephraim.com<\/a> Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/michelleephraim.bsky.social\">@michelleephraim.bsky.social<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Associate editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theron Boozer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deepak Dinesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anastasia Kelnik<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fedor Lemdyasov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Molyneux<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iman Naqvi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikel Nourse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah Parisella<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristine Roy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron Scott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angus Simpson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun Vyavaharkar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brent Weiffenbach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Website design by Jim Monaco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>About hex publishes very short speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We like it weird. 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