Toria 旻辰 Liao
@suntorya.bsky.social
writer, editor, queer cat-lady-in-training. she/her. COO, editorial director @augurmag.bsky.social
Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉 Put on your reading socks and join us for… 💃 catharsis & courage through dance 🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis 💗 love represented in intergenerational stories & so much more! + You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! 🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s 🧵
✨ Story time! “Recipe for Escaping the God of the Cove” is live with The Ex-Puritan! ✨ 🌊 Horror scifi canlit slipstream 🌊 Marriage falls apart in nature 🌊 Spooky God with jokes 🌊 Unreliable narrator 🌊 The cat lives THANK YOU to @anuja-v.bsky.social for plucking this strange tale from the slush 🖤
4 days left and they're still $3000 short. This is an important magazine and it needs your help. You all showed up for my single anthology and I know you can do it again 💚 Don't forget small donations can help it grow tons, too!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
📌 SUBS ARE OPEN this July!! Submit your fiction and poetry to @augursociety.bsky.social Issue 10 📚️ Scroll for more info! 👇️ buff.ly/AKmSaxU 🧵
Alongside my team of 40+, I am delighted to be a finalist for the Ignyte Community Award 🔥 Many moons ago, three gender-non-conforming people founded this space—and in the decade since, 100s of people across intersections have volunteered and published with us. We host the community; they are it.
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd finally the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre are: @augursociety.bsky.social @jasonsanford.bsky.social @sistahscifi.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Oh my gosh. What an incredible honour. A huge congratulations to all the nominees!
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd finally the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre are: @augursociety.bsky.social @jasonsanford.bsky.social @sistahscifi.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to apply for our Graphic Designer role! Submit your application NOW: augursociety.org/join-augur-m...
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 5mo agoJOIN THE AUGUR TEAM 💫 We're looking for a Graphic Designer to join our Marketing team! If you are... 🎨 Artistic, creative, and like to have fun ✍️ Organized, curious, and an ideas-person then we want to hear from YOU! Application details can be found at the link in our bio 🔗 📌Deadline is June 6th!
Today is the LAST DAY to submit to our priority call ‼️ Don't miss your chance to send us your work! Check out augursociety.org/submissions/ for more info on submission guidelines!
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 6mo agoHey Augurians!! We're NOW OPEN for a PRIORITY call from BIPOC, trans, &/or disabled creators currently living in &/or from Canada 📚 From May 5th-31st, Augur Mag is now ACCEPTING speculative submissions of... ✨ Short fiction ✨ Flash fiction ✨ Poetry Scroll for more details 👀⬇️
AHHH SO close!!! Just over 2 hours left to reach $13k and we only need $560 CAD to go! You could grab one of our short story edits with a late pledge and help us cross that finish line with a FULLY FUNDED year 6! 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoTECHNICALLY the campaign has ended (with an incredible $11,945 pledged!!) but we've enabled LATE PLEDGES! 🎉 You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to still back us and help us reach $13k to fund TWO MORE YEARS of T&F!! ⏳😍🎉 Back and share while you can!! 💚💚
Only $30 to reach $12k 👀👀 Any last-minute backers want to help get us there?? 👀👀👀👀
Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
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Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoTECHNICALLY the campaign has ended (with an incredible $11,945 pledged!!) but we've enabled LATE PLEDGES! 🎉 You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to still back us and help us reach $13k to fund TWO MORE YEARS of T&F!! ⏳😍🎉 Back and share while you can!! 💚💚
There are still TWO edits left for our 2500-word tier 👀👀 And each edit reward claimed is JUST ABOUT 10% of the remaining $$$ we need to hit our stretch goal !! ✨✨✨ Some past edit tier authors have gone on to hire an Augur editor on for their full manuscript 👀👀
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 5mo agoONLY $1,055 CAD ($761 USD) to reach our goal! 📢 Time-related clerical mixups resulted in the campaign ending early but YOU CAN STILL PLEDGE 🌟 IT'S NOT TOO LATE 🌟 Snap up those tasty rewards and help us give you two more years of pro-paying slice of life fantasy. 💖🏃♂️
We’re so, so close to funding year 6 — as an all-volunteer team, that means all of your support goes towards the writers and artists in these issues. Please give us one more share today!
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoTECHNICALLY the campaign has ended (with an incredible $11,945 pledged!!) but we've enabled LATE PLEDGES! 🎉 You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to still back us and help us reach $13k to fund TWO MORE YEARS of T&F!! ⏳😍🎉 Back and share while you can!! 💚💚
The campaign page is counting down in minutes now BUT DO NOT FEAR 🌟 Did we accidentally set the campaign to end at noon instead of midnight? Yes. 😖 BUT! We've enabled Late Pledges! So you can still back us UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. 🕛 Less than $1,500 to go, WE'VE GOT THIS 💚💚
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoY'ALL. It's the final day of our campaign. 😱 We've raised a STUNNING $11,090 so far, which means we only need $1,910 to fund ✨ YEAR 6 OF TALES & FEATHERS!! ✨ Just HOURS left!! If you haven't backed us yet, now is the time! ⏳
This sold out like immediately so I may have added one more while no one was looking 🤫 If you missed it, now's your real last chance!
Louise Koren@loukoren.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn case you missed it, I'm offering ONE MORE CONLANG CONSULT for one lucky Kickstarter backer! These have sold out twice already, and with less than two days left of the campaign, who will grab the final one? 👀 I love linguistics, I love worldbuilding, I love conlangs, come talk to me about yours!
Augurians, it’s the LAST HOURS of the Tales & Feathers kickstarter !!!! And we’re only $2,715 CA (UNDER $2K US) away from… TWO 🐉 MORE 🔮 YEARS 🪄 Of Tales & Feathers Magazine, the ONLY pro slice of life fantasy market out there ✨ Every SINGLE like, share and dollar helps us get there !!!! 💜💜
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
I was in T&F in Feb 2025. A+ editorial process! I'd never had a zoom call with an editor for any of my other 30+ original short story sales. Extra time and effort! Y'all, it was like a therapy session. The attention Toria paid to the piece, so thoughtful!
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoGood morning friends ✨ We have a new update this morning from @loukoren.bsky.social! Curious about how our editorial process works? Read about it here! And if you'd like to have YOUR story edited by an Augur/T&F editor, we still have 3 fiction edit rewards left! Back now to nab 'em! 💚
One fun thing about our rewards is that sometimes, they’re exclusive to our Kickstarter (or very rarely offered elsewhere)! In 8 years, I’ve donated free editorial services only once outside of Augur. Once the kickstarter is over tomorrow, these are gone! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...
Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
kickstarter.com
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoGood morning friends. ✨ Did you miss out on our limited quantity fiction edit rewards? Because NO YOU DIDN'T! 😲 We've added TWO more of each the 2.5k AND the 4k edit reward tiers!! Get your story edited by a T&F editor (or gift your favourite writer friend 👀) Grab 'em before they're gone!
Hello friends, we are 3 DAYS from the end of the campaign and we've just passed $9.5k! 😲 We need to reach $13k if we're going to fund year 6. It's a big push, but it's possible! 😤 Can we pass 10k today? 👀 Back and share to help us get there! 💚
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
Folks, have you checked out the rewards available on this Kickstarter? 👀👀 We've got back issues of T&F AND Augur, discounted subscriptions, editing services... And these incredibly cool Zoom Consultations where YOU can talk to our experts on linguistics and archaeology! Grab 'em while you can! 😍
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
not me thinking of this reference at 2am and realizing we posted it! Just $4,000 to go until we fund YEAR 6! short fiction edits still available from myself or another one of our fantastic editors, but grab'em quick 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...
Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
kickstarter.com
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoGuess what, friends *deep breath*
@suntorya.bsky.social is such an insightful, thoughtful editor - I highly recommend nabbing one of her edit kickstarter prizes (only a few left!) and supporting diverse voices in fantasy lit while you're at it
Toria 旻辰 Liao@suntorya.bsky.social · 5mo agoA previous Augur Kickstarter edit evolved into a publication in the Fiddlehead and a book edit, which was all a delightful process to be part of. Let me edit your work!!!
Editorial can be a bit of an obscure process! Here’s a peek at how our team approaches each story with care, intention, and collaboration.
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoGood morning friends ✨ We have a new update this morning from @loukoren.bsky.social! Curious about how our editorial process works? Read about it here! And if you'd like to have YOUR story edited by an Augur/T&F editor, we still have 3 fiction edit rewards left! Back now to nab 'em! 💚
A previous Augur Kickstarter edit evolved into a publication in the Fiddlehead and a book edit, which was all a delightful process to be part of. Let me edit your work!!!
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoGood morning friends. ✨ Did you miss out on our limited quantity fiction edit rewards? Because NO YOU DIDN'T! 😲 We've added TWO more of each the 2.5k AND the 4k edit reward tiers!! Get your story edited by a T&F editor (or gift your favourite writer friend 👀) Grab 'em before they're gone!
Augurians! We have FIVE DAYS to get Tales & Feathers to Year 6! 😱 We have: $8,617 We need: $13,000 That's only $4,383 to secure the future of our slice-of-life sibling. 💪 LOADS of great rewards available (including fiction edits, ALL issues of Augur, & more! 👀) Back and share to get us there! 💜
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
Just a couple days left to fund T&F year 6!!! It would be incredible to know that we could sustain the mag for another year. We’re an all-volunteer team, so every dollar goes to the writers and artists we publish, and every share truly matters.
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 5mo agoAUGURIANS! Thank you for supporting @talesfeathers.bsky.social on Kickstarter so far! We passed $8,000 & we're on the way to funding YEAR 6! 👀 We have until MAY 31 to raise the $15,500 CAD ($11.4k USD!) for 2 more years & put out our FIRST ever print edition! 📚✨ Help back us NOW! 🔗 Link in bio!
We passed $8k yesterday! That puts us almost 25% of the way to funding YEAR 6! 😲 Lots of great rewards available if you haven't backed yet, including ARCHAEOLOGY CONSULTATIONS with @hramsaroop.bsky.social 🤩🤩 Back and share to support slice of life fantasy! We can't do it without you. 💚
Tales & Feathers Magazine@talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5mo agoHello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
JOIN THE AUGUR TEAM 💫 We're looking for a Graphic Designer to join our Marketing team! If you are... 🎨 Artistic, creative, and like to have fun ✍️ Organized, curious, and an ideas-person then we want to hear from YOU! Application details can be found at the link in our bio 🔗 📌Deadline is June 6th!
Hello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚
Tales & Feathers: A Pro Slice of Life Fantasy Mag | Year 5+
Fund the next two years of our pro-rate slice of life fantasy magazine—and help us create our inaugural print edition.
kickstarter.com