OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS

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:

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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.

PLEASE DON'T SEND...

• Pandemic stories
• Gratuitously violent pieces
• Horror that uses neurodivergence or mental health as the horror element
• Comedy that punches down
• Stories that are “speculative” because a non-marginalized group suddenly experiences what it’s like to be a marginalized group (e.g. a man “has to live with sexism”, a white woman is suddenly “treated like a woman of colour”)
• Anything that minimizes sexual trauma/any trauma as a plot device (eg. A woman is assaulted in order to motivate a man, without dealing with her story or experience)
• Casual or blatant misogyny/bigotry/racism/etc.
• Otherwise insensitive pieces
• Reprints
• Stories longer than 5,000 words for Augur Magazine, or longer than 2500 words for Tales & Feathers Magazine
• Pieces you've submitted before (unless they've undergone a significant rewrite)

A NOTE ON INTERSECTIONALITY

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:

• 2SLGBTQIA+
• Black, Indigenous, and/or POC
• Marginalized genders
• Settler
• Disabled
• Neurodivergent
• Citizenship status
• Religious minority
• Class

Although this is by no means an exhaustive list.

A NOTE ON CITIZENSHIP DECLARATION FOR INDIGENOUS 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 the borders colonially recognized as Canada, so we can the Canadian government will continue to give us money to distribute towards your work.

A NOTE ON CONTENT WARNINGS

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.

A NOTE FOR PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTORS

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!