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to celebrate efforts towards inclusion and diversity within speculative fiction, the first 15 of which were awarded at FIYAHCON. A second virtual FIYAHCON was held 18–19 September 2021, at which a second round of Ignyte Award winners was announced. In 2022, the third round of Ignyte Awards were given
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Produced quarterly, 25 issues had been released as of February 2023. Items published include prose stories, essays and poetry, and many of the issues are themed (e.g. "Hair", "Chains", "Haunting and Horrors", "Food and Cuisine", and "Palestinian Solidarity"). While the magazine originally compensated
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was to create a publishing space for Black science fiction and fantasy (SFF) writers, who had been marginalized out of the mainstream SFF market. Seeking work by both native and diasporic Africans "that reject regressive ideas of blackness, respectability politics, and stereotype,"
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saw a dramatic increase in readership: subscriptions rose from 204 in 2019 to 1,769, continuing to rise through 2021 with 2,122 subscribers. The trend reversed, however, in 2022 with subscriptions plummeting to 1,115 subscribers, in part reflecting a genre-wide recession.
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recommended reading list, one of the highest ratios of any SFF magazine, professional or otherwise. FIYAH has maintained this record throughout its publication, with seven of 24 stories making the recommended list in 2021, and five of 19 getting recommended in 2022.
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podcast collaborated in producing an "Origins and Encounters"-themed SFF contest. Three finalist short stories were selected for publication on the Tor.com site.
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produced the inaugural FIYAHCON, a virtual convention held 17–18 October to "celebrate the perspectives and contributions of BIPOC in speculative fiction".
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had already distinguished itself as a magazine of notable quality: six of the 17 stories published that year were on
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Acquiring editors Kaleb Russell, Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Joshua Morley, Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson,
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In 2017, the magazine launched its Presence of Blackness Score Project to track the progress of short
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announced the production of an SFF flash fiction anthology by Black authors in collaboration with
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five times, most recently in 2023, and it won the Hugo Award for Best Semi-Prozine in 2021.
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was developed by a group of writers led by Troy L. Wiggins and L.D. Lewis, as well as
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markets in improving their accessibility to and publication of Black authors.
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Since 2019, the magazine has received six consecutive nominations for the
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began paying $ .08 per word, considered a "professional" rate by the
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The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen
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at a dedicated ceremony hosted by Brett Lambert on 17 September.
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Speculative fiction magazines published in the United States
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In 2022, the following staff were listed as co-finalists:
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was awarded to Ireland and Wiggins for their work on the
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Reviews editor and social media manager Brent Lambert
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P. Djèlí Clark; Troy L. Wiggins (22 February 2017).
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Justina Ireland
United States
English
fiyahlitmag.com
Wallace Thurman
Justina Ireland
Best Semi-Prozine Hugo Award
Fire!!
Wallace Thurman
Justina Ireland
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
Locus Magazine's
Tade Thompson
SFF
Ignyte Awards
Tor.com
LeVar Burton Reads
World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional
Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
Tonya R. Moore
List of science fiction magazines
List of literary magazines
"Year-in-Review 2017 Magazine Summary"
"Catch FIYAH: Notes on Building a Black Speculative Fiction Revolution"
"A History of FIRE"
"FIYAH Literary Magazine: The Future Ain't Going to Write Itself"
"Issues--FIYAH"

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