FIYAH is a new US quarterly speculative fiction magazine scheduled to debut on 1 January 2017, featuring stories by and about people of the African diaspora. The magazine’s editorial team, helmed by executive editor Justina Ireland is comprised entirely of black speculative fiction writers rooted in a collective known as The Niggerati Space Station, founded by writer-editors P Djeli Clark and Troy L Wiggins.
FIYAH’s editors are currently reading for issue three, summer 2017 issue, which has a theme of ‘spilling tea’, whether that be literal, metaphoric or in any other sense you can imagine. Required are high quality, brave works of speculative fiction (science fiction or fantasy) by authors from the African diaspora. Deadline is 1 January, on which date submissions for issue four will open, theme to be announced.
Submissions should be short fiction up to 7,500 words or novelettes up to 15,000 words. No reprints, multiple submissions or simultaneous submissions. Payment is $150 for stories, $300 for novelettes, $50 per poem.