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FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction is an American-based quarterly magazine of Black speculative fiction. Also referred to as FIYAH, the magazine was announced in September 2016, inspired among others by the 1920s experimental periodical FIRE! created by Wallace Thurman. It was developed by a group of writers led by Troy L. Wiggins, L.D. Lewis, and Justina Ireland. The first edition of the magazine was published in 2017. FIYAH has been nominated for the Best Semi-Prozine Hugo Award four times, most recently in 2022, and it won the Hugo Award for Best Semi-Prozine in 2021.

Publication history
Announced in 2016, the first issue of FIYAH Literary Magazine was released in early 2017. Inspired by Fire!!, an African-American literary magazine created by Wallace Thurman in the 1920s, the expressed goal of FIYAH was to create a publishing space for Black science fiction and fantasy writers, who had been marginalized out of the mainstream SFF market. It was developed by a group of writers led by Troy L. Wiggins and L.D. Lewis, as well as Justina Ireland. The first edition of the magazine was published in 2017. , the magazine's first editor. Produced quarterly, as of February 2023, 25 issues had been released.

Related projects
In 2017, the magazine launched its Presence of Blackness Score Project to track the progress of short SFF markets in improving their accessibility to and publication of Black authors. The 2018 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional was awarded to Ireland and Wiggins for their work on the magazine.

In August 2020, FIYAH announced the creation of the Ignyte Awards to celebrate efforts towards inclusion and diversity within speculative fiction.

Awards
The magazine was nominated for the 2019, 2020 and in 2021 won Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine.

FIYAH was once again nominated for the Best Semi-Prozine Hugo in 2022, with the following staff listed as co-recipients:


 * Publisher Troy L Wiggins
 * Executive editor DaVaun Sanders
 * Managing editor Eboni Dunbar
 * Poetry editor B. Sharise Moore'
 * Reviews editor and social media manager Brent Lambert
 * Art director L. D. Lewis
 * Web editor Chavonne Brown
 * Non-fiction editor Margeaux Weston
 * Guest editors Summer Farah and Nadia Shammas
 * Acquiring editors Kaleb Russell, Rebecca McGee, Kerine Wint, Joshua Morley, Emmalia Harrington, Genine Tyson, Tonya R. Moore, Danny Lore
 * Technical assistant Nelson Rolon ,