Halfway through January and @heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions! ✨ Send us stories and poems with: - fantasy 🐉 and/or sci-fi 👽 - a long-term relationship (platonic, romantic, familial)🫂 Keep sending us YOUR works! ✍️ Full guidelines: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Cover letters can feel intimidating but, please, when you use AI to write them for you, we automatically distrust your writing. It doesn’t matter if you click the ‘didn’t use AI to draft/generate’, you’ve already fed your words into the plagiarism machine. We *want* your human awkwardness.

We're accepting submissions all month long! Keep 'em coming. 👍

Exciting! On one hand, I didn't think a sequel was needed because it was incredibly well-done as a standalone. On the other hand, I watched Godzilla Minus One 3x in theatres, which I rarely do nowadays for any movie, and I enjoyed it so much; I will definitely be watching the sequel!

#silmarillion #arien

These systems that allow ICE to kill and terrorize communities come from settler colonial law. The same law that stole Indigenous land, and justified other violence, like stealing Indigenous children and putting them into Indian boarding/residential "schools" under the Doctrine of Discovery.

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/

Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026. You know what this means? It means that @heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions, Jan. 1-31! ✨ Don't self-reject. Send us your sff/spec stories and poems with long-term relationships! 🪄🛸🫂 Submission guidelines: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026. You know what this means? It means that @heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions, Jan. 1-31! ✨ Don't self-reject. Send us your sff/spec stories and poems with long-term relationships! 🪄🛸🫂 Submission guidelines: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

"Duvet" will live forever. 🥲 Always love Bôa. 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWLs...

NOTE: our Indigenous authors submission window will remain open until January 2nd at 3 p.m. UTC. We will consider all stories by Indigenous authors submitted by this date.

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

✨ Early subs still open!! ✨ Check out our wishlist and the guidelines on the website. Is there a story you're thinking of a polishing? Maybe you're about to write a completely new story from scratch? Don't self-reject. SUBMIT! #fantasy #scifi #sff #spec

Looking forward to reading submissions again!! Write, write, write! ✍️

We're open for early subs from Dec 24-31! If you're an equity-deserving writer, send us SFF short fiction (500-3,500 words) & poetry. Not sure what we want? Less fabulism and more entrenched fantasy/scifi. We'd love pieces that deliver on the promise of their title (show us the monster!!)

We’re barrelling toward the end of the year! While you’re making resolutions, add some revisions to the list 📋 Heartlines opens for early subs from equity-deserving writers Dec 24-31, general subs open Jan 1 www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

A week ago we released Issue 9! We’ve been shining a light on the stories, poetry, and essays within the issue but now we want to highlight @itsbabypears.bsky.social gorgeous cover art. You might have noticed that we’ve been shifting our covers to be inspired by Canada’s provinces and territories🍁

Recently spent a week in Auckland, New Zealand. 💙 Attended WIPCE with my colleagues - amazing! 🧡 Visited and dined at Hobbiton (roads go ever ever on)! 💚 Got to meet @emilyyu.bsky.social in person, FINALLY! 💕 Will get back to writing. ✍️

Number 9, number 9, number 9. Issue 9 has been released! It's a bittersweet one as we welcome @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social as Poetry Editor and say goodbye to Jess Cho 2 pieces are available now to all subscribers! Snow, Stars, Stone and grotto www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-9/

Tommy Prince is known as the most decorated First Nations veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War. Now people are celebrating his life days ahead of the military acknowledging its racism and discrimination against Indigenous soldiers.

A wonderful issue #9 coming soon! 🥳 I had a blast reading through submissions! I also work with a great team 💖 Subscribe and support an indie Canadian spec magazine! ✨ More info below ⬇️

It's Issue 9 and we're feeling fine! It might even be our first nature-y issue, there's zombies, sheep, all types of flora, and the slow decay of time. Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬 Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀

Black Speculative Fiction Month

Pablo Uchida

Drew Struzan was probably best known for his movie posters, but we will always cherish his many, many contributions to our bookshelves - a master, and an inspiration. ✨ #DrewStruzan #starwarslegends

Today is the National Day of Action for MMIWG2S+. APTN News is sharing a new episode of Our Relatives: Life on the Streets. It tells the story of four Indigenous women who were murdered while living on the streets of Winnipeg. Hear the final episode: pod.fo/e/336a57

Want to support an Indigenous writer today? Here's my Indigenous-coded fantasy inspired by my late grandmother, the Pookitapiiks, and the Makoyohsokoyi. 🐺🌌 "Star Berry and the Wolf Trail" is published in Augur 7.1: augursociety.org/star-berry-a... My dog is also a prime inspiration 🐾 🧡

The Writers’ Guild of Alberta and Nhung Tran-Davies are pleased to announce that the 9th Annual Kemosa Scholarship for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Mothers Who Write is now open! First Place ($3000) Second Place ($2000) Third Place($1000) Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 writersguild.ca/programs-ser...

Last day for submissions to @heartlines-spec.com !! We are looking for stories and poems with spec AND a long-term relationship at the core!! Don't self-reject! Send us your works before the end of the day. Happy writing!! #fantasy #scifi #sff #spec #writing

Today is #TruthandReconciliation day today. People often talk as if residential schools are a thing of the past. They aren’t. They are still causing damage to this day. People who deny that they happened are still causing damage to this day. Survivors are still alive to this day.

DOOooooo IT!!! We'll have new submission readers to put the grindstone and make them regret their generous natures 😘 www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

Important distinction, for whoever needs to hear it today: A rejection of your story is not a rejection of you as a writer!

It's Truth and Reconciliation Day! Here's some books I recommend (details for each book in the comments): - From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle (memoir) - Kukum by Michel Jean (fiction) - 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act by Bob Joseph (non-fiction) - Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Sept. 30th marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also Orange Shirt Day. That said, we Indigenous people live with that history everyday. I'm a child and grandchild of survivors of the residential schools. Please take time today, if you can, to reflect and learn about the history.

Omg last day is tomorrow! Get your stories/poems in!

Last day for submissions to @heartlines-spec.com !! We are looking for stories and poems with spec AND a long-term relationship at the core!! Don't self-reject! Send us your works before the end of the day. Happy writing!! #fantasy #scifi #sff #spec #writing

Just a few days left to get your stories and poems in for Heartlines Spec!!

I WANT TO READ YOUR POEMS!! Give me all your spec poetry with established relationships. My (extremely flexible) wish list: 💜Aro/Ace QPRs 🌌Cosmic Phenomena 🫀Cannibalism (IYKYK) Subs are open until Sept 30!

✨ 1 more week to go for submissions at @heartlines-spec.com ✨ Send us your SPEC fiction WITH a long-term relationship (familial or platonic or romantic)! Be sure to read the full guidelines here: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g... Happy writing! ✍️ #sff #spec #fantasy #scifi

A vid from my rez, Siksika, on the Signing of Treaty #7 today on Sept. 22, 148 years ago in 1877: www.facebook.com/watch?v=8418... I always rec people to read The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 by Treaty 7 Elders. It contains a lot of eye-opening history and context not widely known.

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social's schedule is officially out! Heartlines will be stationed in the vendor room for the weekend! Come say hi and talk about short fiction! www.can-con.org/events/live-...

Artist! Quote with your night art! ✨️

TORONTO PEEPS! Heartlines Spec is going to be at Word on the Street! We'll be selling ALL THE SWAG: magazines, art prints, stickers, pins, and patches ❤️ Visit us! Say hi! Maybe buy something cute? WOTS is 100% free to attend. Learn more at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca #TorontoWOTS #WOTS2025

A bit of silliness from 2021. Kong's first line is taken directly from the 2007 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

It's Sept. 15th, and you know what that means? It means it's halfway through September and Heartlines Spec/@heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions! What are we looking for? ✅ Spec! 🪄👽🧝🏽🐲🌌👾⚔️ ✅ A long-term relationship at the core (familial/platonic/romantic) 🫂 Send us your stories now! ✍🏽

It's Sept. 15th, and you know what that means? It means it's halfway through September and Heartlines Spec/@heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions! What are we looking for? ✅ Spec! 🪄👽🧝🏽🐲🌌👾⚔️ ✅ A long-term relationship at the core (familial/platonic/romantic) 🫂 Send us your stories now! ✍🏽

Welcome to the team, @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social!!

The search is ooooooooooover! We're delighted to announce that @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social is our new Poetry Editor! She'll be working with Jess to finish out the issue. Look how judgey that bonus editor is! You definitely want to impress them by sending your weirdest, best poetry.