Artifice was a nonprofit literary magazine based in Chicago, Illinois, that existed between 2009 and 2017.
[3] Later Peter Jurmu became the editor-in-chief of the magazine replacing James Tadd Adcox in the post.
[4] In 2011 Artifice was awarded a City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant.
In 2010, the magazine was awarded the Best Submission Guidelines by Philistine Press[5] for the Artifice wishlist,"[6] 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 Books' first project, released in 2012, was "EXITS ARE,"[7] an e-book by Mike Meginnis (and many players), published in conjunction with Uncanny Valley.