Augur Magazine
Literary Magazine
A literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2 months*/Editor reported data52 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 2.38%*Chill Subs tracker stats
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FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 5000 words max
Max words: 5000
Sub Genres: Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative
Payment: CA$ 0.11 per word
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Payment: CA$ 60 per piece
Translation
Payment: CA$ 0.11 per word
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Moksha
Cover letter
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
Author's rights
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.
Tracker statistics
69
Total submissions tracked
52 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
6 days
Fastest response time
134 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 237 days, 237 days, 257 days
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About
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 fu...
Read moreFounded
2017
Country
CA
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Editor-in-Chief
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
Victoria Liao
Managing Editor
Escher McDonell-Maulsby
Poetry Editor
LJ Ahenda
Poetry Editor
Vivian Li
Editor
Kelley Tai
Online Editor