FIYAH Award Eligibility 2024

Eight birthdays for FIYAH Literary Magazine! In that time, we’ve published 32 issues featuring the best speculative stories from Black writers all over the world, month after month, year after year. We’re not the only game in town for these talented word scribes, but we’re nothing if not consistent. That level of resiliency, we hope, is reassuring sign for people of color in our industry. May this flame never go out.

Here are some highlights from 2024:

1. Guest Editors Galore!

Nelson Rolon opened the year with Issue 29, a collection conspicuously dealing with death and the hereafter. Tonya R. Moore followed up with Issue 30, showing her affection for undersea tales. Emmalia Harrington anchored their stories in empowered leads for Issue 31: DISABILITY, and Kerine Wint spotlit our heroic matriarchs in Issue 32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES.

2. Award Nominations

Once again, FIYAH was considered for a Hugo Award and Locus Award. We didn’t win this time, but we’re always grateful for the recognition.

In 2024, FIYAH published four issues with 29 authors who shared 20 stories and 9 poems. These are works that our writers felt could be told here, with us. FIYAH is honored to have hosted these tales.

Here’s to 2025, a year that promises to be more interesting than any of us can imagine.

FIYAH Literary Magazine is eligible for 2024 semiprozine award categories.

STAFF

Publisher and Executive Editor: DaVaun Sanders

Poetry Editor: B. Sharise Moore

Acquiring Editors: Genine Tyson, Emmalia Harrington, Tonya R. Moore, Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Egbiameje Omole

Art Director + Social Media Manager: Christian Ivey

Sponsor Coordinator + Webmaster: Nelson Rolon

PROSE

Executive Editor: DaVaun Sanders

Guest Editors: Nelson Rolon, Tonya R. Moore, Emmalia Harrington, Kerine Wint

Acquiring Editors: Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson

Title	Author (Last, First)	Word count	Story Type
Issue 29- January 2024
Kiss of Life	Verrone, P.C.	4996	Short
D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion)	White, N. Romaine	3884	Short
Tilamin	Duncan, Carol B.	4830	Short
Together Like Hands on a Clock	Telle, Jo	6527	Short
Issue 30 – April 2024
The Forgetting Room	Ross, Kathryn H.	5368	Short
Not All Your Bones are Yours	Neple, Plangdi	5158	Short
The House of Old Marian	Albert, Nkereuwem	7260	Short
Selkies Among the Pines	Chisolm, Sara	3990	Short
On My Momma	Sadler, Carré	5099	Short
No Happy Endings for Chasers	Nwaka, Uchechukwu	4901	Short
A Carapace of Coral	Helms, Amanda	3689	Short
Issue 31 – July 2024: DISABILITY
Demon Slayer	Abu, Terna	3665	Short
Worms Fill My Mouth	Kirk, F.	4338	Short
The Tomb of the Forgotten Soldier	Sikamo, Mwanabibi	5258	Short
Way Up in De Middle of De Air	Roballo, Jamie	2005	Short
Issue 32 – October 2024: SPACEFARING AUNTIES
Fuck Them Kids	Obey, Tatiana	6050	Short
Didn’t Earn It	Onley, K.W.	7199	Short
My Mother’s Daughter	Lockhart, C. M.	6713	Short
The Carcosa Pattern	Loyer, Conrad	6659	Short
Anansi Moon	Springer Jr., Ezekiel	14941	Novelette

POETRY

Poetry Editor: B. Sharise Moore

Guest Editors: Nelson Rolon, Tonya R. Moore, Emmalia Harrington, Kerine Wint

Acquiring Editor for Poetry: Tonya R. Moore

Our poets are eligible for the Rhysling Awards

Issue 29- January 2024	Author (Last, First)
The Dump City	Manuel, Olumide
Issue 30 – April 2024
ChopShop	O’Hara, Bryant
Vampire Myths and Facts	Asari, H.B.
Issue 31 – July 2024: DISABILITY
Giant Robot and His Person	Hope, Akua Lezli
we stim to the moment	Hernandez, Camille
Go Body Go!	Mckinnon, Taylor
Issue 32 – October 2024: SPACEFARING AUNTIES
Afrofutures Haibun in Multiverse: Verdie’s Beam	Garcia, Regina YC
The Old Tradition	Bobi, Zaynab Iliyasu
Midnight Wash N Go	Garcia, Kat