Happy release day to the fab @thesuiway.bsky.social and this gorgeous, gripping, atmospheric yellow book 💛
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Happy release day to the fab @thesuiway.bsky.social and this gorgeous, gripping, atmospheric yellow book 💛
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!
we are
80%
funded
(if you were curious)
80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey
80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear
80% off is a going out of business sale
please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u
join us! get fiction!
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The Iron Garden Sutra comes out TOMORROW and in the meantime you can read this awesome interview with @thesuiway.bsky.social !
BOOK SALE
end of february = end of ebook sale
so grab your copy of these SPOTLIGHT books (from BSFA + Locus lists)
No One to Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
$1.99
Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com
$1.99
One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com
$2.99
see links below 💀
a REMINDER to READERS
though Psychopomp is no longer publishing standalone novelettes and novellas
the DEADLANDS *will* be publishing such things.
new for 2026
we've got an upcoming novelette by @dianadima.com
and a novella by @amalsingh.bsky.social
SUBSCRIBE TO THE DEADLANDS as PATRON
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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN JANUARY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's December's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, The Dark, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @foofarawpress.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @havenspec.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, @morningtransport.bsky.social, and @thedeadlands.com.
2026 Fusion Fragment Lineup Natasha Ali: “Parthenogenesis” in FF#29 Sophie Casarico: “Diet Tips for the Apocalpyse” in FF#28 Jaye Case: “The Animal Years” in FF#27 Chloe N. Clark: “The Rocket Equation” in FF#29 Corey Farrenkopf: “Grave Bells” in FF#28 Elliott Gish: “The Stone Garden” in FF#29 Louis Inglis Hall: “The Children of Cadmus” in FF#29 Claire Jia-Wen: “In the Wake of Whales” in FF#28 Anya Leigh Josephs: “A Prescription for Suicide” in FF#27 Ewen Ma: “One Last Round in the Arena of Little Gods” in FF#27 Escher McDonnell-Maulsby: “Giant” in FF#29 Tuesday Pil: “u last saw hana in the mageverse” in FF#28 Sarah M. Saif: “Graftage” in FF#29 Ross Showalter: “Extinction” in FF#27 Erin Strubbe: “Birdguts” in FF#28 Cate W. Tam: “Overgrowth” in FF#27 Katharine Tyndall: “Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective!” in FF#27 Francis Van Ganson: “Iso E Super” in FF#28 Allison Wall: “Chutes, Slides, and Ladders” in FF#28 Bree Wernicke: “May It Please the Profit” in FF#29 J.Y. Zhang: “The Sum of Her Parts” in FF#27 Audrey Zhou: “(Non)Deterministic Finite Automata” in FF#28
The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you!
We've got:
-writers making their second appearances in FF!
-writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags!
-writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!
you're gonna love this one, we just know it 🖤
"a fascinating fractal of hauntings and houses" - @aimeeogdenwrites.com
"a gorgeous Gothic jewel of a book" - Waverly SM
"both cheerfully gory and cheerfully queer" - @bogiperson.bsky.social
out on tuesday!! preorder below ⬇️
oh you lucky, lucky readers
what a treat we have for you today!
it is
the HOUSE, BODY, BIRD cover reveal
AND ALSO
short interview with @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social
BEHOLD the amazing cover
CONSUME the wonderful interview
PREORDER your copy today to support small presses AND read good things...
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.
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!
My latest short fiction reviews, and my 2025 Year In Review are both in the February issue of LOCUS. So much to read in this issue: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
Y'alllll this is such a moving story!
...and *the most fun* I've ever had voicing a character. What does the ocean trapped in a spaceship sound like??? 🌊🛸👂🏻
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Did you know that Con or Bust is our most expensive program? We make cash grants to assist with travel, food, registration, and other expenses associated with attending industry events. Donate here to help us do this important work: dreamfoundry.org/con...
With another surge the “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 91% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 78% to SG1 & 69% to SG2. 16 more backers and we’ll lock in the base goal funding. Keep signal boosting with our sincere thanks.
White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Fiction Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur - Abigail Eliza The Homeowner's Bride - Ayida Shonibar Vitrification - Ishmael Grey This Is Not Your Extinction Event - Elena Sichrovsky Situationship - Seoung Kim The Claywife - tanadrin Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - Nadia Radovich Reprint Fiction Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - Sarah Pauling The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - Simo Srinivas
White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Poetry blessing for molly grue. - Elisheva Fox Eat It Out - Cypher Ignore All Previous Instructions - Ann LeBlanc Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be - Rick Hollon Electrolysis - Nico Santana Nonfiction He Is Survived by His Wife - Jackie Hedeman
IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️
More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)
"A child born without a face. A child born with a face but no head behind it. A child born with flesh smooth as its belly where its mouth ought to be; yet it cries."
A new, very short story at @ergot.bsky.social. Thanks to Sam Moss for finding a place for this one.
www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...
ONLY 24 DAYS LEFT! Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025--details in the link below. Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
(And why 24 day? Well, because I forgot to post this on a day that is a multiple of 5!)
Thank you, Rebecca!
My birch tree story is now free to read in this beautiful, all-second-person issue of Haven Spec !
we are
SO THRILLED
to see several of our novellas and a collection on the
@locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list
we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them)
so we put them on SALE
OMR - $2.99
Starstruck - $1.99
NTHTDD - $1.99
you can get them here:
Our ✨January 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/c906166bff
The January Issyou features seven stories and four poems all written in second-person POV!
Little Ghosts has become a precious resource for the SFFH community and we love them dearly!
Help them do even more of the great work they do!
An excerpt of the short story "A Tree is not a Home" by Diana Dima, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads: A tree is not a home. But you, twelve years old and bony, dragging a suitcase behind a gray mother into the gray building where you were now going to live, looked back at me as though it was all wrong. As though the building should have been me. You came out soon afterwards, walked across the parking lot and over the low wire fence into my patch of land. (I saw you, in a manner of speaking, like an arrow rushing at me in the dark.) I could tell that you had never seen a birch before. You pressed your cheek... The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.
👀January 2026 Fiction👀
"A Tree is not a Home" is a short story by @dianadima.com about seeking refuge wherever you might find it. Read it for the quiet grief and pain embodied by its birch tree narrator.
Subscribers can read it now!
This is such an amazing list!! The weird is strong 💜
Very late, but here are my short fiction recs from Nov-Dec 2025! A mix of old and new, with stories by @acwise.bsky.social @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @teajaysee.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social 1/2
For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.
in case you missed it!
check out this fantastic flash story by @amfisher.bsky.social 💀🖤
Guys, it looks *so good*. Can’t wait for you all to read my story in here and the other fictional and poetical delights. The extra cool thing is all the pieces in this issue are in 2nd person!