🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

We've got a new T&F story for you this Monday! 👀 "After the Astronaut and the North Star Kiss" by Stefan Alcalá Slater is a tale of cosmic longing & the moment where two lonely explorers finally collide! 🌌💫 Read it NOW! 🔗 Link in bio. P.S. every story in Vol 3 is now on our site, free to read!

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong... by @thellpsx.bsky.social and I, for Alice

we are around $8K CAd in the red. help us catch up! bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

One day left to apply for the Augur Editor role! You'd get to collaborate with an awesome team on putting our future issues together, for both Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Apps on our site!

Looking to join the Augur team? 👀 Now's your chance! We are looking for dedicated, experienced, and compassionate folks to join our all-volunteer Editorial team! 💫🖋️ If you want to help shape the future of Augur magazine--APPLY NOW! DEADLINE to submit your application is Sep 21 🗓️ 🔗in bio!

If you have one takeaway from this issue, I hope you'll see it as a call to community and collective action—a reflection that we can deprogram away from the confines of oppressive structures and orient towards justice and liberation. A reminder that we need to take care of each other on the way. 2/7

I cannot express how proud I am of this team. As my first time solo-leading on an issue, I found myself stretching my wings out of my usual myth & fantasy space into sci-fi and apocalypse for Augur Magazine Issue 8.1. Some meandering thoughts 🧵 1/7

We spent $150K in the last month and only raised $58K. Thankfully the earlier Itch Bundle fundraiser meant that we haven’t yet ran out. All support is deeply appreciated to keep Gazans connected through forced starvation & colonial violence: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

GTA Augurians, you're invited to celebrate the LIMITED EDITION print run of Augur Magazine Vol 6! 🎊 🕐 Thursday, August 21st from 7-9:30PM 📍 Society Clubhouse, 967 College St, Toronto You can expect... 👇

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

✨ Augur is nominated FIVE times across three categories in this year’s Aurora Awards! I’m so, so proud of our editors, writers, artists, and podcast. It’s the first year every active part of Augur has been nominated. If you’re Canadian, deets on voting are below 👀✨

Join me for the Toronto launch of my debut poetry book, "Myth"! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙🌺 April 9. 7PM. Society Clubhouse. Featuring performances by the amazing: @farahghafoor.bsky.social @faitharkorful.bsky.social @spondeee.bsky.social and @suntorya.bsky.social! Come through!! ✨️✨️

Just $21,240CAD, $4264USD, and £2000 until we break even. We are already sending new eSims using points thanks to your donations! We can definitely get there by the end of the month, if not sooner. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Hello wonderful readers big news today 🌟✨TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 3 IS RELEASED!✨🌟 Get ready for fish-gyals, hellhound puppies, food, family, friendship, & more. 💖 Subscribers will find the issue in their inboxes within 24 hours, and 2 pieces are free on our site RIGHT NOW. 😍 (scroll for more 👀)

Today is 2/25/2025! What if 250 people donated $25CAD by the end of today? That would help us climb out of debt faster. Remember: the genocide hasn’t ended. Internet is still crucial for everyday survival and urgent news. bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

I have a new story out today in Singapore Unbound, about the superstition surrounding the number 4 in Chinese culture and the avoidance of bad luck singaporeunbound.org/suspect-jour...

This spring, on April 1st, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my debut poetry collection, Myth! It's a little tropical, a little lyrical, a little speculative, something for everyone! 🌴🧜🏾‍♀️👽🌙 Preorders are open! Please share if you can! houseofanansi.com/products/myt...

Huge news! 🎉 Giller Prize, one of Canada's largest literary prizes, has cut ties with lead sponsor Scotiabank after one year of literary community protesting the bank’s ties to Elbit, Israeli arms manufacturer. BDS works! We have power wherever we are. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/a...

This has been extended to Jan 8. I let my membership lapse because I was too disgusted by the org’s failure to produce even the most lukewarm condemnation of ongoing genocide, but if you’re currently a SFWA member & haven’t forfeited your humanity I think signing it is a good thing to do.

Thank you Winslow and Barabones for this wonderful graphic <3 We are running critically low on funds rn and could a bit of holigay cheer. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs

It’s so silly, but I feel like I need to create some kind of celebration ritual for every time I leave my day job on time so that I can reinforce the boundary 😅

Lovely words from @acwise.bsky.social on the issue that @kercoby.bsky.social and I put together!

💖 2,000 FOLLOWERS GIVEAWAY 💖 Prize: one (1) fictional news article about your character or party! 💫 To enter: Follow and repost 💫 Bonus entry: Tag a friend in the replies 💫 Ends 12/12 at 11:59 pm ET 💫 Full rules and more prize examples: sebastianyue.ca/2024giveaway

It was so soothing to listen to @sonj.bsky.social’s podcast voice while streaming this look inspired by the @augursociety.bsky.social Murmurstations logo (by Moccha!). I’m rusty, but hopefully I’ll revisit my makeup collection more. Won’t be gluing feathers to my face again anytime soon though 😅

Live in five! Come listen to Murmurstations while I dust off my frankly unmanageable makeup collection. www.twitch.tv/suntorya

Haven’t streamed in a while but I’ll be live in ~1hour with a makeup stream inspired by the cover art of the @augursociety.bsky.social podcast, Murmurstations! We’ll listen to the most recent episodes while translating Moccha’s gorgeous art in makeup. Come hang if you’re free! www.twitch.tv/suntorya

1 DAY LEFT — Augur Magazine is open to creators from Canada until the end of tomorrow! Send short fic up to 5k and poetry + check out our themed call! Tales & Feathers Magazine is open to international submissions until the same time! Send us slice-of-life and cozy fantasy short fic up to 2.5k!

…P.S. This is your last chance to submit for a 2025 publication with Augur ‼️subs will reopen again next Fall! SUBMIT your work by EOD on Nov 21! We're so excited to read your stuff! 👀

I’m so excited to share this issue with the world! Led by the brilliant @conyerclayton.bsky.social , Issue 7.3 takes us into the eerie depths of the speculative space. A few full pieces are available now, or you can purchase a subscription or individual issue on our site ✨

Delighted by this shout out for Telling the Soul of Mars by @alinapete.bsky.social !! "The evolution of storytelling in this futuristic context is absolutely fascinating." ☝️ Couldn't agree more. This story BURST outta slush & is currently free on augur's site 💜 augursociety.org/telling-the-...

Canadian writers new to Bluesky! Looking to join some starter packs to find your fellow writers and friends? 🌷 I'm making a thread here of all the ones I can find, as there are quite a few! I'll keep adding as I find more! 👇 Starting first with Canadian BIPOC Poets: go.bsky.app/Jugnv9d

WOW WE DID IT 😭😭😭 THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

10 MINUTES TO GOOOOO !!!!

I could edit you!!! Let me edit your work!!! 30 minutes if you wanna snag this one 👀

We’re SO close to reaching our last press goal and opening to worldwide book submissions! 🪶 Please help us make it there today! There are still many great reward tiers available 👀

24hrs and we’re THIS CLOSE????

AUGURIANS !! WE PASSED $20,000 !!!!! 😭✨ We're only $1,480 CAD / $1065 USD away from our LAST press goal !!! 📚 Funding our FOURTH book... + opening to GLOBAL book submissions 🌎 ⌛ 30 hours to left on the clock www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

This thread is a wonderful insight into the heart and soul behind the @augurmag.bsky.social press. Give it a read, and if you share @kercoby.bsky.social’s vision, please tell a friend! We’ve got one day and under $1,500 left to hit our goal of opening to worldwide book submissions!!!

Story time: why Augur came to be & how it was always meant to become a press. When I launched Augur, I would whisper excitedly that, someday, we might become a book press. But I was 25, fresh & untested—and recovering from an extremely toxic introduction to the publishing space. 🧵

We are SO close to opening the Augur Press to unsolicited submissions!!! With 36 hours to go, it’ll come down to the wire, but I believe we can make it! Please share share share!

So incredibly pleased that we managed to fund the @tiffmorris.bsky.social poetry solicitation!!! Ahhh!!! Can we make it to BOOK 4 of Augur Press in the last two days??? 👀

UH. Y'ALL?? WE JUST HIT $19k 🤯 NEW @tiffmorris.bsky.social POETRY SOLICITATION IS FUNDED 🤩 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 💜💜✨ AND LESS THAN 2.5k LEFT TO REACH BOOK 4!!! 😭

On Kickstarter NOW, we've got... 12+ SIGNED BOOKS & bundles! 🙏 From friends of Augur like: @aijiang.bsky.social @daviddemchuk.com @suyidavies.com @ecwpress.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @tiffmorris.bsky.social & more! + they come w a 2-year Augur/T&F sub ! 🧵

Happy Monday, Augurians! 🤘 😱 3 DAYS LEFT on Kickstarter Today starts @ $17,655 If we make… $1.3k CAD / $971 USD — Book 3 funds $3.8k / $2.7k — Book 4 funds & we open worldwide BOOK subs $4.8k / $3.4k — $$$ SFF award funds But we’re only live til Oct 31 🎃 Share & help double our press titles!!!

Folks, we have 3 DAYS LEFT. 😱 We are SO CLOSE to doubling the size of the Augur Press!! ✨ Only $1.3k CAD / $971 USD to fund the book from @tiffmorris.bsky.social! AND only $3.8k / $2.7k to fund another novella & open worldwide BOOK subs!! 😍 BACK & SHARE NOW. This campaign ends HALLOWEEN NIGHT. 🎃

Want Augur Press to open to worldwide SFF novella, novelette & poetry book submissions ??? I DO !! 🤩 (biased) Here’s the deal: We’ve got 3 DAYS to make $3.8k CAD, or $2.7k USD, & make it happen 💪 This week, repost & quote post your way to a new open SFF press ✨

Why we ask you to share SO often: 2020: Twitter drove $11,000, or 58% of campaign $ 2024: Twitter has driven $1,000, or 6% of campaign $ BlueSky & Insta are growing, but not as reliable. Markets like us are fighting to stay stable. Every share helps. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

I always love reading @teresempierre.bsky.social ‘s thoughts on the writing space! Her description of her MFA journey helps illuminate the ways speculative fiction is regarded in the academy nowadays, and offers clear reflective prompts for anybody considering the same degree.