Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers are both closed to submissions.
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We are not currently accepting pandemic stories.
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.
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:
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:
Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!
Tales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories.
Our ideal submissions look like this:
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:
Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!
We welcome submissions of speculative works translated from any language into English.
We especially encourage submissions from BIPOC translators and translators working with the literatures of the Global South, along with translations from languages underrepresented in white Anglophone publishing. We welcome translated works written in various styles, structures, and speculative genres.
Please provide the following information when you submit translations:
If you are comfortable with it, we encourage writers to indicate their intersections in their cover letter. We pay attention to whose voices we publish, and this information helps us be self-aware as we construct issues.
However, we acknowledge marginalized individuals are not often safe when they disclose their identities. Disclosure is not a requirement to submit.
Any information disclosed will be treated as confidential.
What does “intersections” mean? Any intersection of identity that you sit at. For example, a POC trans settler, or an allocishet white woman. Everyone sits at intersections of identity and privilege—please do not write that you have "no intersectional identity" in your cover letter.
Some intersections might include:
Although this is by no means an exhaustive list. We also encourage folks who aren’t marginalized to get into the practice of self-identifying, to normalize the practice across the board.
Please note that our editorial preference will always skew towards intersectional/marginalized/under-represented/diverse, Canadian and Indigenous/Native/First Nations creators.
Canadian granting bodies require us to keep track of who we’re publishing—we need to know that we’re hitting the required Canadian quotas. So, as a result, we ask folks to identify as from Canada/Turtle Island or as International. However, we recognize that this complicates the submissions process for folks who live within Canadian settler borders but who resist/refuse Canadian identity.
We welcome all of our Indigenous authors and creators to self-identify their citizenship however feels most comfortable and accurate. If you prefer, you are welcome to exempt yourself from the CND/TI and INT requirements—we just ask that you also let us know if you are situated within Canadian borders, so we can keep track of what the Canadian government will recognize as a part of our quota.
We do not require submissions to include content warnings, but we encourage you to include them when you submit to us!
This helps mitigate harm for our all-volunteer reader team and staff.
Please include your content warnings beneath the title of your piece, within the manuscript itself. This ensures the content warning reaches your reader, since cover letters are kept anonymous in the first round of reading.
Hello, Augurian friends! We adore you and your work, and we can’t wait to read some more. However, because we have so few spots each year and are probably super predisposed to your work, here’s how we ask that you submit to us:
If you’ve been published by us once, please wait for the submission period after the issue you’ve been published in comes out. (aka. If you’re published in Issue 2.1, Don’t submit until the submission period after Issue 2.1 is published). Please note that you will not be published by us until a full year has elapsed from the issue you were published in (if you’re published in Issue 2.1, the next one you’ll be considered for is Issue 3.1).
If you’ve been published by us 2+ times, please wait until a year after the last issue you’ve been published in. Eg. If you’ve been published in Issue 1.2 and are slotted for Issue 2.2, please wait until the submission period after Issue 3.2 to submit again.
See you in the slush, friends!
AUGUR: FICTION SUBMISSIONS
Shorts & Flash
- Submit in standard manuscript format
- Do not include identifying information
- Send as a .doc or .docx file
- Place content warnings under the title of your manuscript
- If you would like to, indicate your intersections (not required)
- Let us know if it's a simultaneous submission
- Don't submit any single story over 5000 words
- Send a maximum of 2 stories per submissions cycle
We pay $0.14 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (800+ words), and a flat fee of $112.00 per flash fiction piece (800 words and under).
Finally, for grant purposes, please indicate if you have citizenship/residency in Canada/Turtle Island [CND/TI], are international [INT], or have a less clearcut relationship with Canada [OTH]—for example, international students, individuals living here without citizenship, or any other relationship that is not easily defined.
- Submit in standard manuscript format for poetry
- Submit as a .doc or a .docx file
- Do not include identifying information
- Place content warnings under the title of your manuscript
- If you would like to, indicate your intersections (not required)
- Do not submit more than 5 poems, to a maximum of 10 pages of poetry
We pay $100.00 CAD per poem
Finally, for grant purposes, please indicate if you have citizenship/residency in Canada/Turtle Island [CND/TI], are international [INT], or have a less clearcut relationship with Canada [OTH]—for example, international students, individuals living here without citizenship, or any other relationship that is not easily defined
- Submit in standard manuscript format
- Do not include identifying information
- Place content warnings under the title of your manuscript
- If you would like to, indicate your intersections (not required)
- Submit stories up to 2500 words
- Do not submit more than 2 stories
We pay $0.14 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (800+ words), and a flat fee of $112.00 per flash fiction piece (800 words and under).
Finally, for grant purposes, please indicate if you have citizenship/residency in Canada/Turtle Island [CND/TI], are international [INT], or have a less clearcut relationship with Canada [OTH]—for example, international students, individuals living here without citizenship, or any other relationship that is not easily defined
- Cover letter includes translator background and literary & cultural context
- PDF Letter from rights holder confirming permission to translate emailed to augurmag@gmail.com or talesfeathers@augurmag.com
- Include short bio of author in English with original publication history
- Translated poetry includes original poem
- Follow Augur or Tales & Feathers submissions guidelines:
- Submit in standard manuscript format
- Do not include identifying information
- Place content warnings under the title of your manuscript
- If you would like to, indicate your intersections (not required)
We pay according to Augur and Tales & Feathers rates.