PRIORITY CALL: OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS

From May 5th to 31st 2026, Augur Magazine’s priority call is open for submissions from BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and/or disabled creators who are living within the settler-defined border of the land colonially known as Canada; or creators who hold dual citizenship; or Canadian ex-pats. 

From July 1st to 15th, Augur Magazine will open a worldwide submissions period to all creators. 

Tales & Feathers Magazine will be closed to submissions in 2026. Check out our Kickstarter running from May 1st to May 31st to help us fund our future submissions period and issue in 2027!

Translation submissions are currently closed for both Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers Magazine.

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.

Want to know what'll happen once you submit? Check out this article!

Please query if you have not received a response by the end of October 2026.

WHEN WILL PIECES BE PUBLISHED?

Augur Magazine will be selecting pieces for multiple issues in Year 10, set to be published throughout 2027.

PLEASE DON'T SEND...

• 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!