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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations to all of this year's Ignyte Award winners!!! 🔥

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, hello

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Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had the hoodie for years. Can testify that it’s quality

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2d

It gets more snuggly over time 🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2d

Link here: fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop up these OG designs before our winter merch refresh! Every t-shirt, mug and print sold helps us continue to support Black creators Click shop on our site to see the selection 🔥 Got yours already? Tag us wearing your fave and LET EM KNOW 💅🏿 #Blackownedbusiness #BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 3d

Was so delighted to meet @conradloyer.bsky.social and listen to him read this awesome story from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social at the Sturgeon awards ceremony!!! This award win makes me SO happy. (And he is an awesome reader too, my hair stood on end!)

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · Dec 27

Today in the #BogiReads daily recommendations series - "The Carcosa Pattern" by @conradloyer.bsky.social in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Fall 2024! (the Spacefaring Aunties issue)

fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Weird horror in space + dream technology!

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FIYAH #32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES

FIYAH #32 is available in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats. Buying for someone else? Hit up the Gift Issue for transferable download codes. See the description below for content details.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2d

Love this!!!
Incredible story 🤝🏿 incredible author 🔥🔥🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 3d

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · Sep 4

2026 calendars are up for preorder till the end of October! Calendars ship in November! They're saddle-stitched with a hanging hole, 9 x 24 inches large! gdbee.store/products/vib...

Cover image for gdbee art's 2026 calendar. Text: 2026 Vibes. Calendar

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 17d

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 · 18d

Fiyah puts out AMAZING work! Do check them out!

FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 18d

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...

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 18d

we see you. keep grinding 🔥

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · Sep 12

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 · Sep 10

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 · 18d

let's go! 🔥

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 18d

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 · Sep 10

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