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Taking Submissions: Augur

September 30, 2018

Deadline: September 30th, 2018
Payment: $0.02 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (1250+ words), and a flat fee of $25.00 per flash fiction piece (Under 1250 words, $20.00 CAD per poem
Note: Sorry on the short window

Augur Magazine is currently OPEN to Fiction & Poetry submissions until September 31! Please use our submission portal, Moksha, to submit.

Upcoming submission windows:
N/A. Please check back later in the year for our 2019 windows.

Read the guidelines below and send us your best original, unpublished work! We can’t wait to see what you have for us.

And, in order to keep this magazine going, we offer digital subscriptions*! If you love speculative fiction and want to stay familiar with what we’re publishing, you can check out our store here!

*Please note that purchasing a subscription IN NO WAY influences submission decisions!

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

(Although we always love surprises)

We’re looking for dream-touched realism, slipstream, fabulism, magical realism (note: educate yourself before you claim this term) and, for lack of a better descriptor, “literary” speculative fiction. We accept YA and adult pieces, and possibly children’s as well (more likely for comics than otherwise). Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. That said, we’re no strangers to rich realism, high fantasy, and science fiction, so if you think you match our tone, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue, free online, or grabbing an issue, to see what we’ve published before.

Things we’re not interested in include: gross-out or 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 uses sexual trauma/any trauma as a plot device, casual or blatant misogyny/bigotry/racism/etc., or otherwise insensitive pieces.

We accept multiple submissions (specified in the category breakdowns) and simultaneous submissions on the condition that you inform us if the piece is accepted elsewhere. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks. Please query two months after the submissions period ends.

If you submit and do not receive a verification email, please query. Our submissions system should send you a verification email within 24 hours.

All text submissions must be formatted in standard manuscript format and submitted in .doc format. We strongly prefer pieces be set in in Size 12, Times New Roman or Times font.

Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!

A NOTE ON INTERSECTIONALITY

If you are comfortable doing so, we encourage you to declare your intersectional identities in your cover letter, so we may be informed as we select pieces for our issues. That said, we acknowledge that the current socio-political landscape does not often reward the disclosure of marginalized standpoints, and so we by no means require this from our writers. If you do choose to disclose, we will treat this information as confidential, and it will be used for no purpose other than helping us as we put together issues that fulfill our mission of representing intersectional voices. And, if your piece is chosen, we will not out you in words you have not used about yourself publicly. We’re about representation, not presentation.

What “counts” as intersectional? We’re not in the business of deciding whose identity is valued at what amount, so it’s up to you to decide, but common declarations might include: LGBTQ+, visible minority (broadly stated or specific), disabled, assault survivor, women, immigrants, class standing, etc..

We do accept submissions from non-marginalized and non-Canadian writers. However, these submissions will never dominate our magazine, and our editorial preference will always skew towards intersectional/marginalized/diverse, Canadian and Indigenous/Native creators.

FICTION SUBMISSIONS

Shorts & Flash

  • Submit in standard manuscript format
  • Submit as a .doc file
  • Do not include your name anywhere in the document for blind reading
  • Indicate whether you are [CAD/TI] for Canadian/Turtle Island citizen/resident/ex-patriot/etc.; [OTH] for an international student living here/longtime visitor/anything that doesn’t fit CAD/TI but attaches you to Canada/Turtle Island; or [INT] if you’re submitting without a relationship to Canada
  • If you’re comfortable doing so, indicate any information about your intersectional identity that you would like to disclose
  • Include any important or recent publishing history, or if you’re an emerging creator
  • Disclose whether your submission is simultaneous
  • Do not submit any story over 5, 000 words
  • Do not submit more than two (2) stories for any given submission period, to a total of 4 pieces across genres
  • We pay $0.02 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (1250+ words), and a flat fee of $25.00 per flash fiction piece (Under 1250 words)
SUBMIT NOW

POETRY SUBMISSIONS

For bards & wordsmiths

  • Submit as a .doc file (NOT .docx)
  • Do not include your name anywhere in the document for blind reading
  • Indicate whether you are [CAD/TI] for Canadian/Turtle Island citizen/resident/ex-patriot/etc.; [OTH] for an international student living here/longtime visitor/anything that doesn’t fit CAD/TI but attaches you to Canada/Turtle Island; or [INT] if you’re submitting without a relationship to Canada
  • If you’re comfortable doing so, indicate any information about your intersectional identity that you would like to disclose
  • Include any important or recent publishing history, or if you’re an emerging creator
  • Do not submit poems longer than five (5) pages—we are partial to shorter poetry
  • Do not submit more than five (5) poems (to a maximum ten pages of poetry) per submission period, and do not exceed four pieces should you be submitting across genre lines (ie. one short story, three poems)
  • We pay $20.00 CAD per poem
SUBMIT NOW

GRAPHIC FICTION SUBMISSIONS

Graphic Shorts & Comics

Note: Comics/graphic fiction submissions are currently paused. We will open to pitches later in 2018.

  • Submit as a single .pdf file per submission (not separate images for each page)
  • Graphic fiction pieces must be formatted (or able to be formatted) to fit preferred eBook/tablet dimensions
  • Do not include your name anywhere in the document for blind reading
  • Indicate whether you are [CAD/TI] for Canadian/Turtle Island citizen/resident/ex-patriot/etc.; [OTH] for an international student living here/longtime visitor/anything that doesn’t fit CAD/TI but attaches you to Canada/Turtle Island; or [INT] if you’re submitting without a relationship to Canada
  • If you’re comfortable doing so, indicate any information about your intersectional identity that you would like to disclose
  • Include any important or recent publishing history, or if you’re an emerging creator
  • Do not submit more than three (3) graphic fiction shorts per submission period, up to four (4) pieces across genre lines (e.g. one short story, two poems, one comic)
  • We accept both finished and in production pieces. In order to make the editorial process easier, feel free to send roughs.
  • You may send a new submission email once a previous submission email has been responded to with a rejection, and may submit up to two submission emails per submission period
  • Do not submit excerpts—we’re looking for shorts only
  • Graphic fiction shorts should be no longer than 5 pages
  • We pay $20 per page up to $100.00 CAD per graphic fiction piece
SUBMIT NOW

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Date:
September 30, 2018