FIYAH Literary Magazine: Year Two

by Justina Ireland (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor), DaVaun Sanders (Editor)

Back and Blacker than ever. Winners of a 2018 World Fantasy Award for their efforts in FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Executive Editors Troy Wiggins & Justina Ireland serve up another collection of captivating, soul-stirring stories from today's preeminent Black SFF authors and poets. FIYAH: Year Two features 17 short stories and seven poems, conjuring inspiration from 2018's issues themes: Ahistorical Blackness, Big Mama Nature, Music, and Pilgrimage.

Short fiction authors include:

L. H. Moore • Monique L. Desir • Irette Y. Patterson • Shari Paul • Takim Williams • Juliana Goodman • Stefani Cox • Ivy Spadille • Tade Thompson • Sheree Renée Thomas • Osahon Ize-Iyamu • Eboni J. Dunbar • LaShawn M. Wanak • Stephen Kearse • Sarah A. Macklin • Tuere T. S. Ganges • Nelson Rolon

Poetry authors, edited by Brandon O'Brien:

Terrance Brown • Martha Darr • Doxa Zannou • Uche Ogbuji • Latonya Pennington • Lisa Allen-Agostini

Genres: Short Stories

456 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 Epic of Sakina" by Shari Paul
"The Other Side of Otto Mountain" by Ivy Spadille
"And Songs Don't End" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
"Bullet" by Stephen Kearse

[Matt Sullivan · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not speculative fiction, it's affirmative action.