Artist Raki Sy created the utterly horrific cover for FIYAH #25. We asked about her inspirations and what’s coming up next. What inspired you to originally want to be an artist? I’d say it was my fascination with making-of’s, I watched a lot of Disney/ Pixar movies growing up and some of the VHS tapes […]
We are thrilled to present the cover and table of contents for the 25th issue of FIYAH Literary Magazine. Cover illustrated by Raki Sy. Features include: A Small Bloody Gift – a short story by Naomi Day Tet fe Mal – a short story by Zin E. Rocklyn The Plaster – a short story by Laura Barker […]
2020 was A LOT, y’all. In a year that was harrowing for all of us, we managed to drop 4 complete issues, including a JOY issue, which… we’re just glad was possible. These issues included 17 stories, 9 poems, and 4 new covers all by Black creators the world over. In a changing of the […]
B. Sharise Moore is taking over the role of Poetry Editor here at FIYAH for the year 2021. She’s outlined what she’s looking for below: I wrote poetry before I ever took a stab at writing fiction. There was something organic and inviting about the rhythm, the voice, the freedoms of lines and stanzas that […]
One of my favourite poems, by two-time Pulitzer-nominated American poet Lucille Clifton, begins: won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? I open with it to ask the same of you now, as after four years and sixteen issues, my tenure as FIYAH’s Poetry Editor has reached its climax. […]
FIYAH aims to highlight works of speculative fiction by Black writers across all mediums. Our comic feature this quarter is with James Wright and his project “Contact High.” Contact High is written by James F. Wright, with art/colors/lettering by Josh Eckert. It was originally released digitally in the summer of 2017, and then in print […]
Hello Everyone, We messed up. Earlier in the month, we released two collected volumes of fiction and poetry: our FIYAH Year One collection and our FIYAH Year Two collection. We were very excited to get these collected editions out to the public, and in our haste, we did not secure the rights to collect or […]
Hey everyone! Over the last several months, FIYAH staff devoted a lot of intentional thought and discussion into featuring book reviews on our site. Today we’re excited to announce: IT. IS. TIME! The world deserves more Black thoughts on books, critique of problematic titles, well-earned stanning, and everything in between. But we can’t and don’t […]
