Artifice


Artifice Magazine was a nonprofit literary magazine based in Chicago, Illinois. Artifice was co-founded by Rebekah Silverman, who served as Managing Editor, and James Tadd Adcox, who served as Editor-in-Chief. The magazine was started in 2009. It was published biannually.
In 2011 Artifice Magazine was awarded a City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grant. In 2010, the magazine was awarded the Best Submission Guidelines by Philistine Press for the Artifice wishlist," which requests such submissions as "3 of the saddest sentences ever written," "1 geometrical proof," "2 fits, 2 starts," "4 labyrinths created using parentheses, footnotes, endnotes, etc," and "something that includes a Greek chorus."
Artifice Magazine was a division of Artifice Books, a small press. Artifice Books' first project, released in 2012, was "EXITS ARE," an e-book by Mike Meginnis, published in conjunction with Uncanny Valley.