Augur Magazine is open to both themed and unthemed fiction and poetry submissions from everyone, everywhere.
Tales & Feathers is open to short slice-of-life fantasy fiction submissions from everyone, everywhere.
October 1st-31st:
Both markets open to everyone internationally.
**Extended** November 1st-21st:
Augur Magazine will be open exclusively to Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or those living on the land colonially known as Canada.
Tales & Feathers will be open internationally.
We especially encourage creators who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled to submit—don't self-reject!
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:
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.
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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!
If comfortable, we encourage writers to indicate their intersections in their cover letter. This helps us be self-aware as we construct issues. However, we know disclosure may not feel safe, and it is not a requirement to submit.
All 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.
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 the borders colonially recognized as Canada, so we can the Canadian government will continue to give us money to distribute towards your work.
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 we have published you for 2 years in a row in the same market, please take a break from this submission period. Augur and Tales & Feathers are considered separate markets. We'll see you again soon!
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.