Our general submission window is open for the entire month of August!
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!
Guidelines:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
This picture is snipped from Haven Spec Magazine's website and contains K.A. Roy's bio and image. The bio reads: K. A. Roy (she/her) haunts the suburbs of Chicago alongside her family and three cats. Her stories have been featured at From Beyond Press, Shotgun Honey, Creepy Podcast, Malarkey Books, Spindle House, and more. Her work has been shortlisted for Brave New Weird through Tenebrous Press. She is represented by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary. Find her at kayleighroywrites.com.
Please welcome our newest associate editor, K.A. Roy / @kayleigharoy.bsky.social!
I'm searching for a metaphor that implies difficult but ultimately rewarding work made easier through cooperation. Mountain climbing? Beekeeping? Mountain beekeeping? This is why we need readers like K.A.!
Welcome!
This is gonna be good.
Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Twenty, July 2025. Cover and table of contents. The issue will very soon be available to subscribers, and its contents are as follows: Cover Art by Saleha Chowdhury. Fiction: Visions of Althea by Alex Woodroe, Fish Upon A Star by AR Frederiksen, Brother, What Is Your Name? by Leanne Howard, and Restaurant Space for Lease by Vivian Chou. Poetry: she brings me waves, she brings me wind by Angel Leal, Anchor Spindrift by Elizabeth R McClellan, and Cryptid Sister by H.V. Patterson. Nonfiction: Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? By Leon Perniciaro.
Our ✨July 2025 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it first thing tomorrow morning, and everyone else can read it next Wednesday! Why not subscribe and be the first to take a gander at all these great stories and poems?
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I love this! Such a fun idea
How's the WV Ren Fair? I unfortunately discovered how much fun they are AFTER I moved out of WV, so I've never been.
Can't wait to read this!
Don't miss out on this rotting launch party for Carson's collection.
💀live reading
💀interview
💀rot
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Behold, the cover for my upcoming collection! With art by the incredibly talented @oddoblivion.bsky.social, who did such an amazing job that I can scarcely believe it, and layout courtesy of my tireless partner in this endeavor, @eerieyore.bsky.social.
🚨PREORDER AVAILABLE!!🚨
Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day is now up for preorder at Amazon and Barnes & Noble!
Out Aug. 26 from @apocalypseparty.bsky.social
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Or
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Had me at Arkansas swampland
The KS for a new venue publishing S&S, GOBLINS & GALAXIES, is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/crt...
Submissions for Goblins & Galaxies open May 7!
Get in on our new sword & sorcery mag and send us your best! Submission guidelines here: bit.ly/4i2c9QR
Image shows a bar graph of how many submissions have been sent to Haven Spec Magazine between February 1st, 2025, and today, April 8th, 2025. Most submissions up to March 8th have been processed through the first round (either a hold or a rejection). About a third of the submissions in February have been processed, and almost none in April. In February, we averaged roughly 25 per day, and in March we averaged roughly 8 per day. April saw over 80 submissions on the first day of the general submission window (April 1st).
We've gotten 1350 fiction submissions and 160 poetry submissions (each containing 1-5 poems) since we reopened in February!
This month, we're going to do the hard work of deciding on our holds, and oh how we wish we could publish more.
Abducted front cover
ABDUCTED cover reveal! Coming August 2025 from Dark Matter Ink
My debut sci-fi/horror novel! Imagine if Gone Girl, X-Files, Fargo, The Manchurian Candidate, and the work of Moebius fell into a blender. It’s got all that & more surprises along the way.
Preorder today!
What a lineup!
Our general submission window is open for the entire month of April!
We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel feelings, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!
Guidelines:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
Two things:
1) I also say that phrase and also am met with blank stares.
2) This is how I found out that Val Kilmer is no longer with us.
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Our Kickstarter continues! We're just shy of 50% with two weeks left to go, so please support us if you can!
Subscribe, pick up some cool swag, and get your fiction critiqued by the professionals!
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Home Search Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Search Following Sword & Sorcery NESS/BB Publishing Writers Artists TTRPG More feeds Trending AEW Grand Slam NBA All-Star Four Nations Skills Challenge Books Flag Day Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help B&W illustration of a young, bearded and bespectacled black man looking at the viewer as he holds a hardcover book open, strange tentacles spilling out from between the pages. The author's name is Timaeus Bloom. B&W illustration of a young, bearded and bespectacled black man looking at the viewer as he holds a hardcover book open, strange tentacles spilling out from between the pages. The author's name is Timaeus Bloom.
The cover for CHM magazine issue #43 from March 2024. Timaeus Bloom is credited as having a story inside.
Book cover for a crime horror anthology called "Howls from the scene of the crime". Edited by Jessica Peter and Timaeus Bloom.
Cover for "Beyond the bounds of infinity: An anthology of diverse horror", edited by Vaughn A. Jackson and Stephanie Pearre.
WELCOME TIMAEUS BLOOM!
@timaeusbloom.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See more contributors, cool art, exclusives and more: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Cannot wait for this new CHM project!
Back at again at @talestoterrify.bsky.social with “Lakeside Ceremonials” as read by Amy Paonessa.
All about the bond between a Final Girl and her slasher.
Really says something about society
Haven Spec Magazine's Kickstarter is now live!
Our goal is to raise $4500, and we cannot do it without you, so please subscribe, pick up some swag or a critique, and spread the word!
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Three days till we reopen to submissions and launch our Kickstarter, and omg there's still so much to do!
February 1st:
Submissions open at 12 AM EST! (Friday night)
The Kickstarter launches at 1 PM EST! (Saturday afternoon)
So get ready to send us your stuff and please support us if you can!
Any writer who thinks using generative AI for "transitions" and other things that "don't matter" has a fundamental misunderstanding of both the art and craft of writing.
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Got a new short story up!
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Happy reading!
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Already on it!
Make sure to resist any and all calls from the depths after listening. The voices are lying to you!
