Tales & Feathers is open to short slice-of-life fantasy fiction submissions from everyone, everywhere.
October 1st-31st:
Both markets open to everyone internationally.
November 1st-15th:
Open exclusively to creators who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled.
Tales & Feathers will be open internationally during this time.
Augur Magazine will be open to Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or those living on the land colonially known as Canada.
The themed call for Augur Magazine is for A NATURAL DESIRE. What does it mean to want and need? In this issue, we're looking for speculative stories and poems that explore:
- Raw connection
- Love and lust
- Desperately important platonic relationships
- Community in context
Especially when grounded in nature; flora; fauna; and other non-urban settings. Give us conflict and challenge; joy and celebration; and the spark of repair. Give us pieces that span genre from high fantasy to supernatural, from myth to body horror, from dreamy realism to deep scifi.
We are especially interested in pieces that explore desire from non-Western and Indigenous contexts, or interrogate the ways in which Western relationships are often tied to colonialism and extraction.
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Please query if you have not received a response by the end of January 2025.
Want to know if you’re a fit? Snag a digital subscription or a single issue from our store! Want to know what'll happen once you submit? Check out our article!
We do not accept AI-generated submissions. The actual text of your piece must be ideated and written by a human. Any piece found to be AI-written will result in a breach of contract, should your piece be accepted.
WHAT TO SEND AUGUR MAG
(Although we always love surprises)
Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit or literary magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. However, we also love a good genre romp, and will publish across many genres, including:
- Fantasy
- Science fiction (softer side)
- Dystopia/utopia
- Apocalypse/post-apocalypse
- Slipstream
- Fairytales
- Fables
- Fabulism
- Magical realism (note: educate yourself before you claim this term)
- Dreamy realism
If you think you match our tone, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue, free online, or grabbing an issue, to see what we’ve published before.
We accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks.
Our submissions system, Moksha, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened.
Text submissions should be formatted as follows:
- Standard manuscript format
- .doc
- Without your name (for anonymous reading)
- Preferably, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font
Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!
WHAT TO SEND TALES & FEATHERS
Cozy short fantasy stories
Tales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories.
Our ideal submissions look like this:
- Quiet character-driven storytelling
- Gentle moments
- Rich fantastical worldbuilding
- Everyday moments
- Stories that take place before or between or after the epic conflicts
- Stories that offer warmth, comfort, and possibility
We welcome stories written in any fantasy genre or genres, including stories that blur genre lines. We are especially interested in high fantasy, fairy tales, and myth.
We also welcome stories that have been translated into English and stories that engage with non-Western fantasy genre traditions.
If you think you match our tone, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue, free online, or grabbing an issue, to see what Augur has published before (especially 5.1, their joy issue).
We accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks.
Our submissions system, Moksha, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened.
Text submissions should be formatted as follows:
- Standard manuscript format
- .doc
- Without your name (for anonymous reading)
- Preferably, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font
Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!
Augur Literary Society pays $0.14 (CAD) per word and a flat $112.00 for flash fiction. More information and submission links here.
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