Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

This is Science Fiction’s new Golden Age. That is what they would have you believe. Short fiction markets are better than ever before, exploring ideas of equality, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, disability, and most of all what it means to be human.

It really is science fiction’s new Golden Age.

If you’re white.

What does it mean to be black and look at intersectional issues of equality through the lens of science fiction and fantasy? Where are those stories in the canon? There is black excellence out there waiting to be discovered and not tokenized. Octavia Butler is our past and she is an amazing ancestor, but she should not be our only storyteller.

This is the future of Black SFF.

FIYAH rises from the ashes of the Black literary tradition started by Fire!! in 1926. We aren’t here for respectability. We’re here to ask what it means to Black and extraordinary. We are a place to showcase your stories and grow your career. Part literary incubator, part middle-finger to the establishment, we know you have stories to tell, and we are here for it.

I discovered this magazine on Richard Murray's Hearth blog. The magazine is currently seeking submissions.