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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you haven't read the short story "The Forest, the Sea, & Those Caught Between" by C.G. Aubrey / @cgaubrey.bsky.social in our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! Read: havenspec.com/fiction/the-forest-th… Art: @carolinejamhour.bsky.social

Teaser image of the short story "The Forest, the Sea, & Those Caught Between" by C.G. Aubrey in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece over the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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cressida roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

contract signed! i‘ll be returning to the pages of @lightspeedmagazine.com soon with a new fantasy flash about the blurry lines between friendship, mentorship, and love, and how that messiness can be strong enough to save you (also featuring dragons!) 🐉

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you haven't read the poem "Please stop asking how I'm doing" by Mahaila Smith / @mahailasmith.ca in our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! Find it here: havenspec.com/poetry/please-stop-as… (Art: @carolinejamhour.bsky.social)

Teaser image of the poem "Please stop asking how I'm doing" by Mahaila Smith in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece below the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reading for award noms? Please consider the short story "Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief" by Lex Chamberlin in our ✨February 2026 issue✨! Find it here: havenspec.com/fiction/fragments-of-… (Art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social)

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you haven't read the short story "Proliferation" by J.A. Bryson / @jbrysonwrites.bsky.social in our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! Find it here: havenspec.com/fiction/prol...

Teaser image of the short story "Proliferation" by J.A. Bryson in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece over the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you haven't read the short story "Between Tides and Bones" by Carol Scheina / @carolscheina.bsky.social in our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! Find it here: havenspec.com/fiction/betw... (Art: @carolinejamhour.bsky.social )

Teaser image of the short story "Between Tides and Bones" by Carol Scheina in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece over the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you haven't read the short story "Like Water" by E.M. Linden / @emlinden.bsky.social from our 🌟August 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! havenspec.com/fiction/like...

Teaser image of the short story "Like Water" by E.M. Linden in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, published August 2026. The text in the image is an excerpt of the piece over the cover image, titled "Quietness in Amber" and made by Caroline Jamhour. The image features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Our ✨August 2026 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers get it Monday, August 31st, and everyone else can read it Tuesday, September 8th! Subscribe now and be the first to read it! havenspec.com/subscribe/

Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 25, August 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by E.M. Linden, Sydney Sackett, Carol Scheina, C.M. Fields, C.G. Aubrey, and J.A. Bryson.

Poetry in the issue is by Sarah Chin, Mahaila Smith, and Lesley Hart Gunn.

The cover art is titled "Quietness in Amber" and is by Caroline Jamhour. It features a contemplative woman, her eyes closed, standing in shoulder-deep water beside a crescent moon, her hair flowing on the water's surface.

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Out of Context Pokémon @oocpokemonofficial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I honestly feel bad for the younger generation and how they are priced out of the hobbies. Expensive PC parts, expensive toys, expensive games and now expensive video game consoles. It's insanity, this isn't normal.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Haven Spec Magazine has come to Instagram! Give us a follow, why not? www.instagram.com/havenspec/

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

ICYMI, "And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must" is a short story in our 🌟 January 2026 issue🌟 by @keychild.bsky.social about being forced to outsource your anger. Read this one for its refusal of the patriarchy and its embracing of all the right kinds of wicked havenspec.com/fiction/and-...

An excerpt of the short story "And If You Must Be Wicked, You Must" by Elou Carroll, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads:

You are looking right at her when it happens. When your hands clench around his throat—his skin bright and warm beneath your fingers.

It should be her with her nails sharp and her knuckles paling. She is behind him with her mouth hanging open. She cannot hold your stare—she looks away and bites her lip. For the first time, you are reversed, as if you were born in the mirror all along. She hunches her shoulders and squeezes her eyes shut.

Then, she looks up. She watches. She must.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is now free to read online! Here is a thread of everything inside it. Please read it and please spread the word! havenspec.com/issues/issue... 🧵

Cover of Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 24, published July 2026.

Fiction in the issue is by R.L. Meza, Lora Gray, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dan Peacock.

Poetry in the issue is by Arden Baker,
H.V. Patterson, Christopher Leigh Silverberg, and Anna Madden.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

👀July 2026 Fiction👀 "If You Don’t Return, I Want You To Know" is a short story by @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social about risking everything to save the people you love Read it here: havenspec.com/fiction/if-y...

Excerpt of the short story If You Don't Return, I Want You To Know by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. The text reads:

I stand on the edge of a kaleidoscope of inverted colors and inside-out sounds and backwards tastes. Baked cinnamon cornbread coughed onto a plate, fried pistachio green lullaby, baby shrinking from childhood into a crib lined with felt dinosaurs and milk-scented bibs.

Everything has a sense of echo. Not a sound, but the feeling that afterimages of myself, my existence, are spreading out like ripples through the cosmos. I’m balanced on a wire of straight gray light, and the expansive presence of the bridge is blooming around me.

Quinn is somewhere out here.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

👀July 2026 Poetry👀 "The First Spider on the Moon" is a poem by @hvpatterson.bsky.social about empathy and a longing for that which might never be reached Read it here: havenspec.com/poetry/the-f...

Excerpt of the poem The First Spider on the Moon by H.V. Patterson. The text reads:

The jumping spider who lives in my kitchen
longs to leap to the moon,
to run fuzzy trichobothria over
her pitted-cheese surface

I watch him jump, each leap fifty times his body length,
relatively impressive,
but objectively mere inches.

The cover art is titled "Finally, some sleep" and is by Caleb Worcester. It features an astronaut lying comfortably on a cloud high above the lights of a city.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you haven't read the poem "The Carcass of the World" by @aijiang.bsky.social from our 🌟June 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! It's about the anguish of dying lands and the things that rise at the end of the world, and you can read it here: havenspec.com/poetry/the-c...

An excerpt of the poem "The Carcass of the World" by Ai Jiang, in Issue 23 of Haven Spec Magazine (June 2026). The text reads:

When the carcass of the deer first appeared
erect and alive—not in flesh but in soul—
Father told me that the world was ending.
Its antlers grew, rose into the sky, pierced
its heart with its sharpened edges, and we stood,
watched as the clouds bled, pouring dark tears,
unleashing lightning redder, brighter
than what flowed through our veins, darker...

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Red and Gold, by Carly A-F. It shows a skeletal figure with fire and branches for hair as they loom over a solitary human figure in the foreground.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you haven't read the short story "Horseland" by EC Dorgan from our 🌟June 2026 issue🌟, now's your chance! This one's about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories, and you can read it here: havenspec.com/fiction/hors...

An excerpt of the short story "Horseland" by EC Dorgan, in Issue 23 of Haven Spec Magazine (June 2026). The text reads:

By every measure, I’m a success. I have the perfect home, the perfect partner. He works for an oil company. We’ve paid down our mortgage and invested in equities. He makes a good salary, but I make more, empowering people and selling my story.

I help people find their authentic selves. They say my talks are life-changing. Last year I was on a national news magazine cover, and last month, I made Edmonton’s “Forty Under Forty.” Our guest room became my award room. Now the laundry room’s full, too.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Red and Gold, by Carly A-F. It shows a skeletal figure with fire and branches for hair as they loom over a solitary human figure in the foreground

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Katrina 🌙✨ @bookishmoons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey #querying writers, I’ll be opening to queries August 26 all the way until November 2nd. ✨🍂 Looking forward to reading!

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The Fantastic Other @thefantasticother.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Our Summer 2026 Issue has landed! 🥳 If you would like to check out our new, free collection of fiction, flash fiction, poetry, and art (with a distinctly witchy vibe this go-around), click here: fantasticother.com/issue-12-a-n... Thanks again to all our readers, contributors, and donors! 💙

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Issue 12: A New Summer Tide

Cover Art by Amuri Morris Season after season, we’ve brought you new issues of our curious collection that we call a magazine. Before we knew it, we arrived at our twelfth issue. And here it …

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our ✨July 2026 issue✨ is locked! Subscribers get it Wednesday, July 29th, and everyone else can read it August 5th! Subscribe now and be the first to read it! havenspec.com/subscribe/

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The Fantastic Other @thefantasticother.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We are proud to announce our contributors for our Summer 2026 issue! Thank you, Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social, Elana Gomel, Lesley Hart Gunn, Natalie Harveld, Tyler Jagt, David Anson Lee, Katrina Lemaire @bookishmoons.bsky.social, Alex K. Masse, Amuri Morris,

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Sammie @spottedsnake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I finally got to write a #HIGMA and I’m excited to share it with everyone! open.substack.com/pub/spotteds...

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How I Got My Agent

Querying my sci-fi horror (query letter included)

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Sammie @spottedsnake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Three years ago on July 10th, I sent my first query. And now I can announce that I am agented!! @bookishmoons.bsky.social has such a passion for my story and I am ecstatic to work together on this and future projects!

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/06/2026

You're not running out of time. You have to do this forever

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cressida roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Delighted to announce that my k-pop-inspired story about fame, holiness, and the shoals of fandom culture, "Fame Cycles of Pop-Gods," will be forthcoming in @translunartl.bsky.social! So grateful that this story has found a home at last and with such a fun zine ;)

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The problem with books is I want to read them all.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 12/06/2026

Emotional longing counts as writing

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Katrina 🌙✨ @bookishmoons.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

✨💀RELEASE DATE💀✨ Excited to Announce Heather Carter’s Gothic Romance THE ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL will be hitting shelves next Spring in April 20, 2027!! ✨ Stay tuned for more sneak peeks and cover reveals prior to Release 💀✨

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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Katrina 🌙✨ @bookishmoons.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Can’t wait to see everyone in the GTA tomorrow for the Toronto Writing Workshop! ✨ Thank you to everyone who has signed up, I can’t wait to hear your pitches! 🎉

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sigh, another editor I worked with has been let go. I was expecting it to be a rough year (years?) but it’s still hard, and emotional. I feel sad for all the book folks just being chucked aside, and it’s hard to not feel angry at well… everything.

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fluxxxxx @fluxxxxx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My first A3 format painting :) The first one that worked out. It is much harder to work on larger formats. #art #bskyart #painting #watercolor #SciArt #mountains #mist

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

For #AprilFoolsDay & as an antidote to dark times, here's a selection of our Books to have a laugh with: Inc @edashtonwriting.bsky.social's comic scifi, @csecooney.bsky.social's very nice necromancer, shenanigans in @taranhunt.bsky.social 's KYSTROM CHRONICLES & @randeedawn.com's TUNIVERSE & more!

A compilation of Solaris Books that you can have a laugh with:
MICKEY 7, ANTIMATTER BLUES, MAL GOES TO WAR, THE FOURTH CONSORT and AFTER THE FALL by Edward Ashton
THE MIRROR REALM CYCLE (THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS) by Ariel Kaplan
LADY EVE'S LAST CON by Rebecca Fraimow
TUNE IN TOMORROW and WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM by Randee Dawn
THE CHOSEN TWELVE and THE GODS OF SPENSER ISLAND by Jame Breakwell
THE IMMORTALITY THIEF and THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS by Taran Hunt
THE DOOR ON THE SEA and THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN by Caskey Russell
THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD by C. S. E. Cooney
CHARMING and BEAST by Jade Linwood
SNOWBLOODED by Emma Sterner-Radley

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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I wanted to share this before Women’s History Month is over ✨ give these awesome writers a follow and share to help introduce them to new readers! If you’re a horror author and don’t see your name on the list, reply to this to be added 🫶🏽

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Katrina 🌙✨ @bookishmoons.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Happy to announce that I am now open to queries! 💗🎉 ⬇️QM Link 🔗⬇️✨ QueryTracker.net/query/4158

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Katrina 🌙✨ @bookishmoons.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Forgot to post here but I have been promoted to Associate Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency 🎉❤️✨

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Heather Carter @hlcarterauthor.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#EDITORS: ECHOES OF RADFIELD HALL is now on submission! Trapped in a ghostly limbo with no memory, John & Alloson must solve the mystery of Radfield Hall before a murderous prophecy claims their souls, parting them forever. Contact @bookishmoons.bsky.social and Marisa Corvisiero at Corvisiero Lit