FIYAH Literary Magazine: Year One

by Justina Ireland (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor), Brandon O'Brien (Editor)

The best in speculative fiction and poetry from the groundbreaking first year of FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. This collection includes wide-ranging tales in fantasy, science fiction, horror, magical realism & more.

Featuring over 22 short stories and five works of prose, FIYAH: Year One offers fresh, never before published new voices as well as longtime veterans of the SFF landscape. This collection dives into stories of healing and multiverses, interstellar travel and family, reincarnation and multiverses. Our authors hail from every corner of the diaspora, yet hold one thing in common: their stories are all unflinchingly, unapologetically Black.

Dive into FIYAH's short fiction authors, brought to you by Executive Editors Justina Ireland & Troy Wiggins:

Malon Edwards • Brent Lambert • Wendi Dunlap • DaVaun Sanders • V. H. Galloway • L. D. Lewis • Maurice Broaddus • Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali • Russell Nichols • Christopher Caldwell • Wole Talabi • Barbara L. W. Myers • Eden Royce • Danny Lore • Sydnee Thompson • Jennifer Marie Brissett • Xen • C. L. Clark • Stephanie Malia Morris • Emmalia Harrington • Arnica Ross • Melody Gordon

Poetry selections, edited by Brandon O'Brien:

Mame Bougouma Diene • Uche Ogbuji • Rodney Wilder • Resoketswe Manenzhe • Constance Collier-Mercado

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy

442 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 30, 2019

About the author

Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, and a number of Star Wars books including Flight of the Falcon: Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and Mission to Disaster. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.

Reviews

[Jetamors · Rating 5 out of 5]

Trying to reconstruct my deleted reviews of this series... I believe my favorites from these issues were:

"The Shade Caller" by DaVaun Sanders
"Graverobbing Negress Seeks Employment" by Eden Royce
"The Last Exorcist" by Danny Lore
"Excavate" by Melody Gordon

[Persi Maldon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to rate this higher because the stories are great, I'm on issue 3. It's been really refreshing to read stories written by Black authors and to know that the main characters look like me. My only complaint each issue feels so short. I definitely plan on getting year 2 after I finish.