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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4h
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Submit your stories and poems to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of Sept. 30! ✍️ ‼️ Your story or poem MUST be SFF/spec WITH a long-term relationship (familial, platonic, romantic) at the core of the work. ‼️ Read the submission guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
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Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details
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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canadians: As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes & the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7774 - Petitions
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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 21/09/2026
Today's #DailySFFPoem: Another fairy-tale inspired poem -- BeCause by Y.M. Pang in @heartlines-spec.com. This one focused on revenge. www.heartlines-spec.com/because-by-y...
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BeCause by Y.M. Pang
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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
✨ 10 more days left to submit your fantasy or sci-fi story/poem WITH a long-term relationship to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of the month! ✨ Don't be afraid to dive deep into that fantasy 🧚 or sci-fi 👽setting with characters 🫂 who have known each other for a long time already.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 18/09/2026
On the Occasion of Your Daughter Becoming a Kallikantzaros by @avramargariti.bsky.social is now FREE-TO-READ! It's parenting on hard mode...but also a lovely balm for anyone who grew up a little feral.
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On the Occasion of Your Daughter Becoming a Kallikantzaros
On the Occasion of Your Daughter Becoming a Kallikantzaros by Avra Margariti
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 17/09/2026
You know how copse is very closer to corpse? 👀 🌲 💀 🍃 The Tree by @authortrsteele.bsky.social is FREE-TO-READ!
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The Tree
The Tree by T.R. Steele
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 16/09/2026
A Knight of Leisure by @jaespersmyth.bsky.social became FREE-TO-READ! It's the coziest fantasy with a grumpy knight, a forgiving spouse, and a missing cat. The perfect balm to get you through the rest of your week!
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A Knight of Leisure
A Knight of Leisure by J. A. Espersmyth
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 16/09/2026
life lesson: we should all be weirder
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I Myself Am Strange And Unusual Lydia
Alt: Gif from Beetlejuice. Lydia is in the dark, looking up saying "I myself am strange and unusual"
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 16/09/2026
We're midway through our submission period! Send us your stories and poetry that feature characters/situations informed by established relationships. It's gotta be spec though! We're still getting a lot of submission with only the smallest smattering of Weird/Strange/Magic. www.heartlines-spec.com
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Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rainbow Space Magic is a free, virtual weekend of queer speculative fiction, taking place this year on October 3rd & 4th. Register here to receive updates: www.rainbowspacemagic.org
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KTLyn (any) @ktlyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Like Clockwork," a poem in @heartlines-spec.com pulls all the right strings for me. What a beautiful piece. www.heartlines-spec.com/like-clockwo...
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Like Clockwork
Like Clockwork by R. F. Hovis
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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Speaking of distant galaxies, extraordinary creatures, and magical worlds... @heartlines-spec.com is open all through September for submissions!! Send us your SFF stories and poems with a long-term relationship at the core! ✨ Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
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Learn all about our submissions guidelines, what we're looking for, and our payment details
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 01/09/2026
Fishbowlhead by Moh Afdhaal is now FREE-TO-READ! It all gets weirder as Samil searches the exclusion zone for his brother ❌🏚️⌛ www.heartlines-spec.com/fishbowlhead...
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Fishbowlhead
Fishbowlhead by Moh Afdhaal
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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘tis the season (send me your poems 👀)
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 01/09/2026
Submission inbox is fully OPEN! Let's goooooooooo ✨pure vamp from editors mildly stunned at the passage of time😅 ✨ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
While you await the new vampire story: 🧟"At the End of the World, Meet Me By the Vending Machines" with @heartlines-spec.com is my zombie story. www.heartlines-spec.com/at-the-end-o... 🐺"Of Wolf and Woman" with @flashpointsf.bsky.social is my werewolf story. flashpointsf.com/2025/06/14/o...
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 25/08/2026
Canadians, we can donate to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in Canadian communities through CanadaHelps: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 25/08/2026
The Lazarus Heart by Esther Lim is now FREE-TO-READ. Do not adjust your television sets, listen to the static instead. 📺 🖤 🖤
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The Lazarus Heart
The Lazarus Heart by Esther Lim
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Nicole Munro (is writing; on hiatus) @nmunrowrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's that time of the year again, and I'm ready to read!! 👀 Send us your stories and poems! ✨✨ ✍️
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 25/08/2026
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 25/08/2026
Heartlines is a terrific publication! and i'm not only saying this because once upon a time they published one of my stories. but their stories are lovely and the editorial team is grand.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 24/08/2026
We are OPEN for early submissions from equity-deserving writers, looking for poetry and short fiction. Submissions fully open on Sept 1st: ❣500-3500 words ❣pre-existing relationships ❣Fantasy! Sci-Fi! Horror! www.heartlines-spec.com
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Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 21/08/2026
Ahh thank you for the lovely write-up on The Ache Before the Wound by Hap Aziz www.heartlines-spec.com/the-ache-bef...
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The Ache Before the Wound
The Ache Before the Wound by Hap Aziz
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 21/08/2026
Riiiiiiiight!!!!
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 20/08/2026
Greenhouse by Julia Sinclair is now FREE-TO-READ! 🌿 ☀️ This poem is so lush you're going to stick your nose into the first plant you find. "Her laugh obeys a liquid’s laws of physics – it fills the space into which it’s poured – and tonight it’s shaped like a greenhouse, then my mouth."
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Greenhouse by Julia Sinclair
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N. R. M. Roshak (Natalka) @nroshak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This was lovely!
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Jamie M. Boyd @jamieboyd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lovely story abt whatever happened to the young woman from the portal fantasy, after she returned to Earth and became a mother. 💔❤️
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 18/08/2026
The Kingdom She Carried by Jillian Schedneck is now FREE-TO-READ! Motherhood, portal fantasy, and watching the past inform the present ⭕ ⚔️ 🏰
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The Kingdom She Carried
The Kingdom She Carried by Jillian Schedneck
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 18/08/2026
We're one week out from re-opening for equity-deserving stories and poems for Issue 12! This is the perfect time to shuffle through your pieces or...GASP...write something new? Perchance even... read Issue 11 with new pieces releasing on Tues & Thurs www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 13/08/2026
recollection: to taste by @awritingwren.bsky.social is now FREE-TO-READ! It's a quick bite of a poem that'll warm you to your bones. "granny left us in the spring, like hoarfrost and with the spring i stopped washing her blood off my clothes;"
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recollection: to taste by Wren Douglas
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B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Day 11: "Five of Us" by Jayasri Sridhar in @heartlines-spec.com . A bittersweet look at love that was only permitted to bloom after the fall of civilization. #PoemADay www.heartlines-spec.com/five-of-us-b...
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Five of Us by Jayasri Sridhar
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 11/08/2026
The Ache Before the Wound by Hap Aziz is now FREE-TO-READ! Just because there's an app for that, doesn't mean you need it... "TEMPORAL BUFFER :: RESOLUTION MODE ACTIVE Outcome preview received. Resolution strategy recommendation: light humor" www.heartlines-spec.com/the-ache-bef...
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fantastically scary poem by Chris Clemens in @heartlines-spec.com. Give it a read and come scream with me:
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Six Minutes Till School
Six Minutes Till School by Chris Clemens
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 04/08/2026
Secrets of the Sea by @aresjb.bsky.social is now FREE-TO-READ! 🌊🐚🦀 "In a shack too small at the edge of a wine-dark sea, my mother feeds her whispering shell silver coins in exchange for ocean secrets." www.heartlines-spec.com/secrets-of-t...
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Secrets of the Sea
Secrets of the Sea by Ares J. Benoit
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Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just read 'Secrets of the Sea' by @aresjb.bsky.social in this issue and it's lovely. 🤍 Consider subscribing to @heartlines-spec.com or better yet, consider donating to one of the listed charities and get a complimentary subscription (if there are any left)! www.heartlines-spec.com
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Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
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T.R. Steele 🍂 @authortrsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So happy that my story about love, care, loss, and possessed trees (I know, you'll have to read to find out...) found a home in this issue of @heartlines-spec.com! ❤️🌳✨
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Ares J Benoit @aresjb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So pumped to read the whole issue, it's gonna be a good one!!🙌🏻
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 31/07/2026
For behind the scenes info, our Editorial by @rebecca-b.bsky.social is free-to-read! We got themes, we got stress, we got slices of (virtual) cake.
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Editorial by Rebecca Bennett
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wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Look at this gorgeous issue. I have a poem in here about the summer of 2018, delayed grief and sea ghosts.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 31/07/2026
Maybe the real cake is the subscribers we made along the way 🎂 www.heartlines-spec.com
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Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 31/07/2026
Thank you to all our contributors for making this shine 💖 Moh Afdhaal Hap Aziz @aresjb.bsky.social Chris Clemens @awritingwren.bsky.social @jaespersmyth.bsky.social R. F. Hovis Esther Lim @avramargariti.bsky.social Diem Okoye Jillian Schedneck Julia Sinclair @authortrsteele.bsky.social Lulu Vidal
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 31/07/2026
Issue 11 is fully available to paid subscribers BUT, fear not, if you're a free subscriber you can gorge on Secrets of the Sea by Ares J. Benoit & Six Minutes Till School by Chris Clemens All levels of subscribers get the stories and poems sent directly to their email when they become free-to-read!
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 31/07/2026
It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/
A light purple and pink illustrated cover for Issue 11 of Heartlines Spec. The scene depicts a PEI red-toned beach with two woman's straw bonnets caught in the sand, a bottle of raspberry cordial, and footprints leading to the ocean.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 23/07/2026
New writing prompt just dropped
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Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Heavy sigh...
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 12/07/2026
We hope you'll stick with us. It's been a hard week and we've learned more than we wanted to about AI. We're hard at work on Issue 11 which releases July 31st.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 12/07/2026
Heartlines has tight deadlines, acceptance to publication happens within two months. With simsubs, we're get contracts signed within days of acceptance. This pace has allowed us to become many authors' first publications and we aim to make that a good experience that sets someone up for success.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 12/07/2026
At the hold stage, we research to confirm if a writer's background matches stated identity, especially if the story relies on characters or tropes of that background. We never want to require a writer to have an online presence. Many people are not in the position to live their truth online.
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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 12/07/2026
We're not going to ask for drafts or video calls or use AI-based AI detectors. We don't ask about publication history and we don't ask for timelines of that publication history. When the writer's bio is sent, we assume it's truthful.
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