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General - May 1 - May 31, 2024

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General theme

Fancy & Fantasy

Upcoming reading periods

General

May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Guidelines

"A literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes."

Current Theme

Fancy & Fantasy

"A literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

2 months / 48 days

Acceptance Rate

3.7%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

3 genres

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

10 pages max

Translation

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 5000

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

10 pages max

Translation

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
You're the best!

Track submission

35

Total submissions tracked

48 days

Average response time

3.7%

Average acceptance rate

6 days

Fastest response time

74 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 237 days, 237 days

How to submit

Process

We use Moksha.

Cover letters

Your cover letter should include: recent publishing history (if any), relationship to Canada/Turtle Island (citizen/settler, Indigenous, resident, etc.), intersectional identity (only if comfortable disclosing), and whether your submission is simultaneous. 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.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Submit in standard manuscript format for prose

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

We pay $0.11 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (1000+ words), and a flat fee of $110.00 per flash fiction piece (1000 words and under). $60.00 CAD per poem. For the last week (January 8th - 15th 2023) we are only accepting submissions from creators who are Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, Disabled, and/or Trans, who are also Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or who are living within the settler-defined borders of the land colonially known as Canada.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2017 | Canada

In Ancient Rome, an Augur was a religious official who looked for the will of the gods in the flight patterns of birds, and made predictions based on the stories they read there. In contemporary Toronto, Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes. We are excited by writing that is difficult to classify—whether speculative, surreal, or slightly strange. We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike; speculative stories that are almost realist; and, on top of that, any form of literary fantasy/science fiction/speculative fiction. Augur makes room for writing from uncommon perspectives, and brings together the often disparate realms of literary and genre fiction. Our goal is to publish at least 75% Canadian and Indigenous content, offering new opportunities to the rich communities of speculative fiction writers in the North. And, more importantly, we’re committed to featuring intersectional narratives as represented by characters, storytelling, and, in particular, author representation. We want the kind of liminal that pulls voices together, and honours difference as an integral part of our literary canon.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Kerry C. Byrne

Publisher & CEO

Terese Mason Pierre

Co-Editor in Chief

Avi Silver

Co-Editor in Chief

Yilin Wang

Tales & Feathers Co-Editor in Chief

Anna Bendiy

Tales & Feathers Co-Editor in Chief

Amy Wang

Creative Director