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General theme
Fancy & Fantasy
Upcoming reading periods
General
May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
"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
Acceptance Rate
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!
35
Total submissions tracked
48 days
Average response time
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
Examples
2 pieces from Chill Subs people