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Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine bringing you SFF stories and poetry focused on long-term friendships and relationships. $0.08CAD/word 🇨🇦🌎 (posts by @rebecca-b)

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Heather@heatherdnorton.bsky.social · yesterday

Just read 'Secrets of the Sea' by @aresjb.bsky.social in this issue and it's lovely. 🤍 Consider subscribing to @heartlines-spec.com or better yet, consider donating to one of the listed charities and get a complimentary subscription (if there are any left)! www.heartlines-spec.com

Heartlines Spec

Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine focused on long-term friendships and relationships. It's the comfort of the known, the fierce hug of someone that knows you best.

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Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 5d ago

It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/

A light purple and pink illustrated cover for Issue 11 of Heartlines Spec. The scene depicts a PEI red-toned beach with two woman's straw bonnets caught in the sand, a bottle of raspberry cordial, and footprints leading to the ocean.
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 3w ago

Read up on our statement about AI and the suspected works we published in Issue 8 and 9. The post has been sent out to all our subscribers but you can also read the highlights below. www.heartlines-spec.com/statement-on...

Statement on AI

On July 7, Reckoning magazine posted an article about removing a poem from It Was Paradise for suspected AI use. The name of the author listed in the article, along with their penname, matched an auth...

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Eugenia Triantafyllou@foxesandroses.bsky.social · last mo.

Khoreo's Kickstarter is almost 7k away from funding with only nine days to go!!! Let's do this for a magazine that has always been promoting marginalised authors and brings a fresh perspective to the sff community ❤️

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 4w ago

We recently published a short story and a poem by the same author (under both linked names in Reckoning’s blog post). Both pieces are still on our website, however we are currently investigating best we can and will re-evaluate if/as more information comes to light.

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/

Cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo for Reckoning: It Was Paradise, a special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, featuring a monstrous antlered head with burning red eyes and a warhead emerging from its fanged mouth.
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · last mo.

Hear ye, hear ye! It's time to OFFICIALLY announce our Table of Contents for Issue 11. Releasing on July 31 (iykyk), it's a summer special with stories and poetry from new and old friends!

A view of Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island. The landscape is tinted purple with "Issue 11" in white text with a watercolour heart behind the first letterA pink flat background with watercolour flowers around the corners. The list of the contributors in Issue 11 is in white text. The list reads: Fiction, Moh Afdhaal, Hap Aziz, Ares J. Benoit, J. A. Espersmyth, Esther Lim, Avra Margariti, Jillian Schedneck, T.R. Steele. Poetry: Chris Clemens, Wren Douglas, R. F. Hovis, Diem Okoye, Julia Sinclair
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.

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!)

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Portals #1 drops in October and will open to submissions on June 22nd! It will be co-edited by the incredible Angel Leal and Jess Cho, who are looking for horror fiction/poetry by trans authors. All proceeds from sales of this installment will go to Trans Lifeline. 🏳️‍⚧️ (3/8)

Background: an illustration of sun spots, tinted a dark purple. White text reads: Portals #1: Trans Horror, edited by Jess Cho and Angel Leal
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 2mo ago

Drawing specific attention to the State of Spec Mags survey! If you’re a speculative fiction magazine, take the time to fill it out ✍️

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And finally, a survey of orgs, mags, and other entities focused on speculative fiction, to determine where need might be greatest to help the field stay alive, whether it be through funding, outreach, or anything else. The survey is open thru 6/29. #2026IgnyteAwards airtable.com/appOgisruufu...

State of Spec Orgs Survey: An Ignytes-Adjacent Project. Open for responses thru 6/29
Emily Yu@emilyyu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vote for us for Best Cover Art! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Current Ballot – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)

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Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 2mo ago

BEHOLD! Our cover art for Issue 7 is an Aurora Award nominee for Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration! If you're a member of @csffa.bsky.social you can vote TODAY! We've been so lucky to work with Alice M -- Alice's work is consistently gorgeous and we'd love to see it rewarded.

A blue oval table with 4 sets of hands positioned around a handheld mirror. A ghostly set of hands is at the edge of the table and a red-eyed woman peers through the mirror's glass
Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 2mo ago

BEHOLD! Our cover art for Issue 7 is an Aurora Award nominee for Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration! If you're a member of @csffa.bsky.social you can vote TODAY! We've been so lucky to work with Alice M -- Alice's work is consistently gorgeous and we'd love to see it rewarded.

A blue oval table with 4 sets of hands positioned around a handheld mirror. A ghostly set of hands is at the edge of the table and a red-eyed woman peers through the mirror's glass
Nicole Field 🧛‍♀️🏺🏳️‍🌈@faerywhimsy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reposting because it’s not just the latest releases that deserve love and attention 🥰 The below quote really does illustrate the beauty of the prose and the best of the driving elements in this story.

Heartlines Spec@heartlines-spec.com · 7mo ago

"Fifty years of this. Not quite lovers, never merely friends. Something more ferocious, more faithful. A queerplatonic tether forged in the red dust and sealed in chlorophyll." www.heartlines-spec.com/the-last-two...