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F – Tales & Feathers Magazine: Submissions from creators who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled on the Theme: A Natural Desire
November 15 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Augur Magazine will be open exclusively to Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or those living on the land colonially known as Canada.
Tales & Feathers will be open internationally.
We especially encourage creators who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled to submit—don’t self-reject!
The themed call for Augur Magazine is for A NATURAL DESIRE. What does it mean to want and need? In this issue, we’re looking for speculative stories and poems that explore:
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Please query if you have not received a response by the end of January 2025.
Want to know if you’re a fit? Snag a digital subscription or a single issue from our store! Want to know what’ll happen once you submit? Check out our article!
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.
WHAT TO SEND TALES & FEATHERS
Cozy short fantasy stories
Tales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories.
Our ideal submissions look like this:
- Quiet character-driven storytelling
- Gentle moments
- Rich fantastical worldbuilding
- Everyday moments
- Stories that take place before or between or after the epic conflicts
- Stories that offer warmth, comfort, and possibility
We welcome stories written in any fantasy genre or genres, including stories that blur genre lines. We are especially interested in high fantasy, fairy tales, and myth.
We also welcome stories that have been translated into English and stories that engage with non-Western fantasy genre traditions.
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 Augur has published before (especially 5.1, their joy issue).
We accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks.
Our submissions system, Moksha, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened.
Text submissions should be formatted as follows:
- Standard manuscript format
- .doc
- Without your name (for anonymous reading)
- Preferably, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font
Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit!
PLEASE DON’T SEND…
- Pandemic stories
- 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)