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🪶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 👀⬇️

Pssst. One week left until our unthemed issue window closes. Send us your lovely words...! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

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!

“Otto” by @rpveit.bsky.social from @remainsmagazine.bsky.social, “The Wanderer” by @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social from @thedeadlands.com, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

We love seeing these submissions coming in for our latest issue, but one thing is missing.... Yours! Polish it up, get it in! Don't self reject!

"My son does not know that I am dead because he is far from home wandering. So when I die, lying on my grass mat, I am surrounded by my dead wife’s relatives, all of them peering at me with an impatient look." TODAY! The Wanderer by @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

✨ WHO WILL BURY YOU? is shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award! 🎉 Congratulations to author Chido Muchemwa! What a great start to #ShortStoryMonth. 🔗 Learn more about the book: houseofanansi.com/products/who...

deadlands fiction submission OPEN for SPECIAL ISSUE 💀💀💀 edited by @vajra.me NO JOKE, VERY REAL submit your greatest death stories here: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

We're ecstatic to see “The Inheritance” by C.T. Muchemwa @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social featured in this round up! Check out FIYAH #33 for the full story: fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

@chidomuchemwa.bsky.social is an exciting new voice in African literature! I interviewed her about application process & experiences during the MMF fellowship year open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth, and what better way to celebrate than by reading the incredible work of Black authors? Have you read any of these books? Find these books and more at HouseofAnansi.com.

Attention African SFF authors! Strongly encourage you all to submit to this Applied African SF project from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @africansfs.bsky.social, Uni of Nairobi & The Intn'l Black Spec Writing Festival. Call for Proposals: New short fiction. appliedafricansf.com/2025/02/01/c...

Excuse me while I go print the paragraph and hang it above my writing desk🥹

hey psychopomp blog is back we want your death or fantasy focused articles got budget to acquire a few articles a month currently (buy our books!) read the guidelines + pitch at the link below (would *really* appreciate if you could share this paid writing opportunity).

@chidomuchemwa.bsky.social's Who Will Bury You? from @houseofanansi.bsky.social is *pitch-perfect* 🤌🏾✨

So excited to have a story coming out in Fiyah, a dream publication.