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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have so much good news to share over the next few months 🫶🎉🎉

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Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Publication day! 🥳🎉🙌 My collection "After You Were Lost" was published by WATG Press today. It's a collection that means a lot to me, and I'm excited that people will finally get to read it. All of the 23 flash and micro stories within deal with grief in different ways. Something I know much about.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our August issue has just gone out to subscribers! Subscribe and read it now! havenspec.com/subscribe/

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Fiction and poetry for the 21st century

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’ve got stories in the Hellarkey collections so if you’ve ever wanted to read them (or any of the great work published with Malarkey!), now’s the time!

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

Plus cover art by Caleb Worcester, reviews (of stories about robots!) by @jessicapeter.bsky.social, and little reviews of several stories in this issue by @faithallington.bsky.social, @paulinechow.bsky.social, and @kayleigharoy.bsky.social

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Keep your ears peeled and your eyes on the eagles, my story “Beneath the Eye of the Islet” will have a future home at @talestoterrify.bsky.social !!! When the day arrives, I’ll let it be known. 🦅

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

First story of the June issue of Haven Spec is out now, free to read! And it’s a doozy. Enjoy!

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am the best writer who ever wrote.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Haven Spec Magazine is closing to submissions for the entirety of next month, so send us all the things while you still can! For our complete guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you like queer dark fantasy featuring a touch of blood magic, keep your eyes out for future information on a piece I had accepted today! 🖤

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Our ✨February 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it February 16th (maybe sooner!), and everyone else can read it February 23rd! Five brand new stories and five brand new poems to delight and amaze!

Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Twenty-Two, February 2026. Cover and table of contents.

The issue will be available to subscribers on February 16th, and its contents are as follows:

Cover Art by Matthew Spencer.

Fiction:
Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief by Lex Chamberlin.
She Will Help You The Only Way She Knows How by Janel Comeau.
Skin Deep by Cressida Roe.
Tring-a-Ling by Dafydd McKimm.
We Are The Giants We Fear by Lee Zanello.

Poetry:
If I must exist here, by Eleanor Ball.
Fairest One by Sophia Zhao.
Persephone Wins Custody of Herself by Marisca Pichette.
Roommate by Arthur H. Manners.
Mothercraft (a villanelle) by Erin Brown.

Nonfiction:
Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? by Leon Perniciaro.
Poetry for the End of the World by Jessica Peter.
Little Fiction Reviews by the Editors of Haven Spec Magazine.

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Absolutely thrilled to be included in Haven Spec’s second person pov issue! And now it’s FREE to read! Do you have recurring nightmares? Have you ever been seized by sleep paralysis? I know these hallways well. Let the projectionist guide you… 😈 havenspec.com/fiction/demo...

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Cynthia Zhang should be writing! @czwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Excited to have a flash fiction piece in Haven Spec! Please read and support all the very talented writers in this issue!

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Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

So excited for my werewolf sanctuary poem to appear in such truly stunning company! Also that art! 🔥 🥹 do you need: 🎊 parties as an act of hope 🐺 monsters finding community this poem was written for you havenspec.com/poetry/a-par...

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder”

a 3x3 moodboard featuring the following:
top left: an error message
top center: business paper
top right: cherry blossom trees
middle left: a woman’s body with a purple filter
middle center: a white heart with a pink center
middle right: a pink ocean
bottom left: a doll with the face cropped out
bottom middle: a ring
bottom right: a hand pressed against shattered glass

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Don’t miss out on this story! And if you like it, I wrote a tiny little review about what worked so well in this piece.

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This is *such* a good issue. Be sure to check it out!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our January 2026 issue has gone out to subscribers! The free-to-read public version of the issue will go up February 2nd, but don't miss out! You can read it now by subscribing through our Patreon! www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

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

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our limited demographic window ends soon! Of course, you can still submit in the general window next month, but it's our goal to publish more authors of historically marginalized backgrounds, so send us your stories and poems! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Spotted Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories at my local Barnes & Noble. First time seeing something my work is a part of in the wild! @frombeyondpress.bsky.social

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm thrilled to join Haven Spec as Poetry Editor! Excited to dig into the beautiful mountain of spec poetry - the vivid, the emotional, the lyrical, the strange, the dark, the climate-conscious, the bittersweet, the idea-driven, the magical, the otherwordly, the weird. . . and everything else!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We're over the moon to announce that Jessica Peter / @jessicapeter.bsky.social has joined us as our new Poetry Editor! Welcome! Welcome Welcome Welcome!

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Jessica Peter writes dark, haunted, and sometimes absurd short stories, novels, and poems. A social worker and health researcher, she lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her writing can be found in Apparition Literary, The NoSleep Podcast, Flame Tree, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other places. She also co-edited Howls from the Scene of the Crime: An Anthology of Crime Horror (Howl Society Press, May 2024). You can find her on Bluesky at @jessicapeter.bsky.social, or at www.jessicapeter.net.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Haven Spec Magazine is now open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page

Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

still a chance to get a physical copy of the fourth annual issue of the single most important horror series ever produced

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Have put a lot of books in the mail in the last week, but also zines. First batch of Hellarkey is out and over 100 copies of King Ludd’s Rag, featuring stories by Tori Rego and @jedwardgregal.bsky.social, have gone out, many just as a bonus with another book that sold. Buy a book, get a zine too!

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Paying full price for a Hellarkey is always a great deal! (also, join their book club. they send you the Hellarkeys.)

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Help Malarkey lose less money and get one of my stories in your hands. THAT’S a bargain. 🤭

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Will begin shipping copies of Hellarkey over the weekend. Order a copy and you get some spooky stories to read, help us recover some of the costs, and get a free zine in the bargain! malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...

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Hellarkey vol. IV — Malarkey

Hellarkey IV 56 pages. 6.14 by 9.21 inches. This item will ship in September or early October. Hellarkey is a horror-themed magazine published by Malarkey every October. Each summer, mystical ed...

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I mean, what an absolute banger deal. Don’t miss out!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

👀Fiction Highlight👀 ICYMI, the short story "A True Account of a Pre-Teen Blob " by @reasie.bsky.social is free to read online! Test the bonds of family and the human form in this piece from our March issue! Story: buff.ly/Tfi0GUU Issue: buff.ly/A4NJnnk

An excerpt of the short story "A True Account of a Pre-teen Blob" by Marie Vibbert, published in Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

I wished my whole body would bruise. I could roll like a meatball off the car seat, out the door and down the highway. I could be a wonderful monster.

"We’re never going back," Mom added, joyful and sadistic.

Milly gripped her book tighter against her flat chest. We never knew when the horrible things Mom said would be true.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/08/2025

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Support Malarkey and read my story Fruit Of Decay, with cannibalism, fungi, death, the fae, art exhibitions and cannibalism.

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Emily McClanathan @emilymcclanathan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Very happy that I could review RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES. This horror newbie had a great time with it. Also thrilled to be back in the Reader's pages. Long live the @chicagoreader.com!

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Rare poetry window. We will publish four of these poetry EPs/zines/microchaps next year. More if we can swing it but we have the means, for now, to say four. Knock us out! oleada.io/publication/...

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

for real though, buy a copy or three of this, okay?

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

So proud and honored to be part of this work of art! Chicago forever. 🖤

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I just read a proof of this and let me tell you… $5 is a steal. Don’t miss out!

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES comes out in a week! @ala-booklist.bsky.social says "Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it." Get it for two bucks off at our site frombeyondpress.com

“Each story stands out by revealing both Chicago’s beauty and its ugliness, an ugliness reflected in broader society... Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it.” —Booklist

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories release party! Featuring an all-Chicago DJ set by Plastic Crimewave and readings by 10+ authors. Followed by a German silent film with a live score. August 27, 6pm, Comfort Station Logan Square, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave.

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