Announcement! We’re paying more in 2019!

Posted by Kerrie
On November 26, 2018

We’ve got news. GOOD news. As many of you know, this year we were lucky enough to receive a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, which will partially fund us for years 2-3. For those of you outside of Canada, this is a pretty big deal. And it’s letting us do some pretty exciting things. […]

Saving the Future By Stealing From the Past: Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 22, 2018

Reviewed by Rhonda Dynes If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I just ate my first grapefruit the other day. As it happens,Toronto author Kelly Robson’s debut speculative fiction novella, Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, is just as delectable. It’s 2267 and Minh is an 83-year-old “post-disaster” plague baby. Minh represents a dying […]

Graphic Fiction and Cultural Inheritance: Float by Janice Liu

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 19, 2018

Graphic fiction occupies that elusive, in-between space in the imagination where story meets art. Often, it becomes a perfect portal into the speculative. Realism can easily slip into the surreal, via art, panel by panel. This is certainly true in “Float” by Janice Liu, which appears in Augur‘s issue 1.3. In “Float,” Essie encounters a […]

An Interview with Davian Aw

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 14, 2018

Since this week we’re celebrating three-issues-worth of Augur Magazine, we caught up with one of our authors from Issue 1.1 to chat about writing grief in fiction, his favourite writing project and his #1 advice to writers on submission. Davian Aw is a Rhysling Award nominee whose fiction and poetry have appeared in Mythic Delirium, […]

Exorcism of Gender Rigidity: A Review of Octavio is Dead!

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 12, 2018

It’s always a surprise when you see the boy you have a crush on having sex with your estranged father’s ghost. In Octavio is Dead!, a queer Canadian psychosexual ghost story, a young woman tries to come to grips with the death of the father she never met and in the process discovers that gender […]

A Year of Augur Magazine: Thoughts and Reflections

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 7, 2018

We’ve been busy in 2018. After running a successful crowdfunding campaign, publishing three issues, and obtaining Ontario Arts Council funding for Years 2–3, it’s been a whirlwind. And we’re celebrating in two ways: One: We’re having a party! If you’re in the Toronto area next Thursday (November 15) evening, drop by SKETCH Working Arts […]

Welcome to the Augur Blog!

Posted by Augur Blog
On November 5, 2018

Ah, beginnings. Since the beginning, Augur Magazine has been dedicated to creating a literary space for the futures we need. Here’s another one. Today is the beginning of our blog — another space in which we invite like-minded people to create important conversations through the written word. Another space to celebrate uncommon perspectives, intersectional narratives, and […]

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