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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 7d

Submissions for our next unthemed issue are now OPEN 📣
Tell a friend! Everything you need to know is here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 7d

Hi friends! Normally today we'd get to share our latest issue drop with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social We're delaying release a few weeks, but rest assured it will be worth the wait. Stay safe out there 🖤🖤🖤

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akemiart @akemiart.bsky.social · 11d

art by Odera @odera.bsky.social

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 11d

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 13d

A new month approaches! FIYAH will open to submissions on October 1, for our first *unthemed* issue of 2026!

Polish up those pieces, we can't wait to see your work 🔥🔥🔥

Share with a hungry Black SFF author or poet who the world needs to know about ✊🏿🖤

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 14d

Fiyah puts out AMAZING work! Do check them out!

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · 14d

Hi new people 👋🏽
I’m an author, playwright, and educator who writes speculative fiction that celebrates queerness, Blackness & Indigeneity. My debut novel RABBIT, FOX, TAR is coming out next year! You can find my latest stories here ⬇️ and in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social’s upcoming Gods & Monsters issue…

PodCastle 874: The Husband - PodCastle

The Husband By P.C. Verrone He has never taken a man for a wife before. This becomes clear as he introduces me to his other wives. The youngest wife bristles and the wife with the long, dark hair av...

podcastle.org

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 14d

we see you. keep grinding 🔥

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 26d

Oh wow Fargo Tbakhi!!!

SFF people also take notice that an author who writes SFF (published in places like @apexmag.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social) is on the longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry, this is not very common!

somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 28d

National Book Award for Poetry 2025 longlist announced - www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry

www.nationalbook.org

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 15d

let's go! 🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 15d

hey thanks! you're an incredible writer, and we're so glad we've had the chance to feature your work...TWICE 🔥🔥

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Fable Brooks @voidbratt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Very excited for this release.

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com · Sep 9

New spoooooky story coming out next month with this gorgeous cover (and one of my favorite themes ever!) @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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leupagus @leupagus.bsky.social · Sep 9

GUYS IT'S SO CREEPY AND AWESOME I LOVE IT

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social · Sep 9

A new divination painting, The Judgement, for @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social’s Fall 2025 issue: Gods & Monsters

Lots of inspo from memories of playing mancala in Enugu & Lagos summers. It’s a simple but robust game, & it inspired me to meditate on fate, fortune, luck, agency, and power dynamics 🌱🌰🧿

A large figure emerges from a pink monolith. This structure features the indentation and grooves of a mancala board. With some of those interior structutes housing mancala beads.

The figure’s arms emerge from the structure with chipped and broken fingers and forearms, while collecting or throwing mancala beads into a swirling pool of grey black smoke.

This smoke consists of various figures, spirits, tricksters, gods, and demons. Are the beads transforming into these spirits? Or is the monolith collected and transforming this smoke into matter.

These smoke spirits consist of: A femme reminiscent of Igbo and Yoruba sculptures. A round octopus like head with a single beady eye. A small trickster smiling with a pointed phallus emerging from a smokey crator. A horned spirit resting in a semi fetal position. Two wailing bird heads emerging from a pot. A mini mancala board reflecting the larger monolith.

The monolith figure has nzu inspired face makeup, a chieftan hat, and ember wings emerging from its back.

A closeup focusing on the face, wrist, and mancala beads on the interior monolith.

The image within the magazine layout.

ISSUE NO. 36
GODS & MONSTERS
FALL 2025

FIYAH
MAGAZINE OF BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION
OLUWAFIKAOMI ADENIYI • ENIOLA ABDULROQEEB AROWOLO
NKONE CHAKA • C. M. HARMON • OLUMIDE MANUEL LOWRY POLETTI • JAIMIE K. WILSON • P.C. VERRONE
EDITED BY DAVAUN SANDERS & B SHARISE MOORE | COVER ART BY ODERA IGBOKWE

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 29d

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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm so honored and excited to share I have a new story in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social coming out this October! Look at this incredible cover!
Cant wait for y'all to read it :')

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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Jedi Puddin (Rebel Spy/Sarlacc Farmer) @jedipuddin.bsky.social · 29d

So, this was the really great thing that happened! A bucket list goal of mine. So excited! (I'm Jaimie)

If @levarburton.bsky.social happens to read my story, I will go ahead and float off into the sky. RR & Island of the Blue Dolphins shaped me deeply one rainy day. Thx @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social!

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...