👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "Strawberry Island" is a short story by Emily O'Malley Liu about first love and finally coming home. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "A Science Center Education" is a poem by @lynnesargent.bsky.social about life and chance and how lucky we are that we exist and can build all our hopeful fragile lives together. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word?" is a short story by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social about drought and the broken promises of a not-too-distant future. Find it in our June 2026 issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

it's here! it's here!! body horror, carnivorous plants, mother issues! please check it out!

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "What to Watch For" is a poem by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social about hope in a world that refuses to forget. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "Mother's Bane" is a short story by @madihaab.com about breaking the cycles of abuse that we are heir to (and also killer plants). Find it in our June 2026 issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

My hopeful cli-fi poem is within these pages!

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "Poison" is a poem by Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe about oil and blood and the prayers we offer to the wind and the earth. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "We Whose Fathers Have Transformed into Wild Animals of the Land, Sea, and Sky" is a short story by @spencerwriting.bsky.social about the pain we pass through each generation (and also therapy). Subscribers can read it now! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

may I offer a smol poem for you today? 👀😶‍🌫️

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "The Carcass of the World" is a poem by @aijiang.bsky.social about the anguish of dying lands and the things that rise at the end of the world. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

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

👀June 2026 Fiction👀 "Horseland" is a short story by EC Dorgan about authenticity and the monsters that haunt our hearts and histories. As a special preview of the issue, you can read it NOW! havenspec.com/fiction/hors...

Pumped to have a new clifi story in this one :)

I have a smol poem in the new issue of @havenspec.bsky.social 👀✨‼️

look at this sick cover!! and I'm SO excited to finally get to share "Mother's Bane"! keep an eye out for it!

Absolutely thrilled to have a poem in this issue of Haven Spec!!

New Em Liu!

Pretty stacked ToC.

A story I've been trying to write since I was 20 is in this issue! I can't wait for folks to read it and the other awesome fiction and poetry found inside @havenspec.bsky.social's latest issue. Super excited!

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

TODAY ONLY: the Gore Poetics ebook is only 99 cents through the Cursed Morsels store. Perfect for fans of strange, transgressive, erotic, literary, queer horror--lots of adjectives for a collection that's doing LOTS! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...

Shout out to our Fiction Editor TJ Price / @eerieyore.bsky.social for getting included in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2! Pre-orders are like a present to your future self, so grab a copy for future you!

Special MicroVerse roundup with poetry recs by the amazing Ai Jiang! @aijiang.bsky.social

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/

I ADORED this little fairy tale by Dafydd McKimm over @havenspec.bsky.social. #WhatIRead2026 havenspec.com/fiction/trin...

ICYMI, our general submission window is open this entire month! 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 & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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/

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/

Our general submission window will open on the first of the month! 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 & schedule: www.havenspec.com/submit/

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month! 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/

Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

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/

Here's the finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards–congratulations to all!!

@brigittewinter.bsky.social + #AWP brought to my attention this wild movie which, while not exactly the direction I took with my story, "Bootcut" @havenspec.bsky.social, is, er, cut from the same cloth. 👖🔪 www.imdb.com/title/tt9741... Read my murder jeans take here: havenspec.com/fiction/boot...

A familiar story that's worth hanging on to the end! Ouch @mktighewrites.bsky.social !! #speculative #flashfiction

ICYMI, @havenspec.bsky.social published a new poem of mine last week! 🖤 it’s all about creating care and community in the face of apocalypse havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...

Amazing recs and the best thing to wake up to. What wonderful company to be in, especially with my long time friend and CP @thelialao.bsky.social

Four short stories I read and loved in FEBRUARY ✨ MAGICAL GIRL: CORPORATE FAILURE by @thelialao.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social THE SALT AND THE CURE by @rukman.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

ICYMI: My poem "Roommate" is now free to read in @havenspec.bsky.social! The day after Danny died of pneumonia He came downstairs to call the landlord. I watched trembling from the kitchen As he rasped and bubbled into his phone, “Damp’s gotten worse, you need to get down here.” ...

"there’s a name for this— suicide, hibernation, runaway. bad daughter, goth wife, crafty, avoidant, irresponsible to throw ice over everything, trade green for arctic gray. but I am not my mother. I never was." ICYMI: "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" in @havenspec.bsky.social 🦌

stoked to say I'm returning to @havenspec.bsky.social's eminent pages with "Mother's Bane," my short story about carnivorous plant women and confronting your abusive mother 🌿🌷🌹🌱 keep an eye out for it in their upcoming issue!

"Lean in, little girl— drop pumpkin blossoms into my depths Look into the dark and tell me you don’t want to go." ICYMI: all of @havenspec.bsky.social issue 22 is now available online, including my poem "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" 🦌🌙 Read now ⬇️

Reading for 🌹award nominations🌹? We published eight short stories and seven poems in 2025, and we loved each and every one of them! If any of these pieces spoke to you, moved you, made you feel feelings like they made us feel feelings, please consider nominating them! 🧵 of issue links below:

deleted my last post bc of all the typos 😅 so anyway, promo take two! “skin deep” is out, with shapeshifting and sapphism in the suburbs (feat. samuel taylor coleridge and about one william mosquitos)! get it right here in the new issue of @havenspec.bsky.social!! havenspec.com/fiction/skin...

"When the seasons fracture, we look up. Leaves aren’t all that tumble from the sky, carpeting our humble underworld. You fall, and fall, and fall." You can now read my poem, "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself" free online @havenspec.bsky.social 🦌🍂

Our ✨February 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online! Find it here: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Or get the PDF and EPUB: ko-fi.com/s/805c9b3a99 In it, you'll find five stories and five poems for your reading pleasure. Please spread the word!