@heartlines-spec.com
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)
@heartlines-spec.comThank you! I’ll fix going forward, we have a longer explanation on our submission page but were limited by word count here
@heartlines-spec.comIf you've received a Hold notice from us and are wondering what's up: we're looking to make sure that Issue 12 meets our goal of 50% Canadian content. Our current Hold list is smaller than typical, we normally keep ~25 stories and ~15 poems for our editor's to fight over. We're short by ~5 in each.
@heartlines-spec.comWe have RE-OPENED for short story and poetry submissions from Canadian/Turtle Island writers 🍁🍁🍁
Our extended period will be open until October 18th. We'd love to see:
❣obvious Sci-Fi or Fantasy elements
❣ relationships shown on-the-page
@heartlines-spec.comHeads up! We have responded to all our submissions. If you haven’t heard back, check your spam and send us an email. We will be reopening soon for more Canadian short fiction and poetry—our hold list isn’t as mapley as it should be 🍁🍁🍁
@heartlines-spec.comCongrats to the TOC! We’ve been lucky to work with so many brilliant writers selected 💗
@aptnnews.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.comSeptember 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
@nmunrowrites.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.comSubmit your stories and poems to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of Sept. 30! ✍️
‼️ Your story or poem MUST be SFF/spec WITH a long-term relationship (familial, platonic, romantic) at the core of the work. ‼️
Read the submission guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
@kvjohansen.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.comCanadians: As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes & the works they subsequently produce.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
@klaxoncomms.comReposted by @heartlines-spec.comToday's #DailySFFPoem: Another fairy-tale inspired poem -- BeCause by Y.M. Pang in @heartlines-spec.com. This one focused on revenge.
@nmunrowrites.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.com✨ 10 more days left to submit your fantasy or sci-fi story/poem WITH a long-term relationship to @heartlines-spec.com until the end of the month! ✨ Don't be afraid to dive deep into that fantasy 🧚 or sci-fi 👽setting with characters 🫂 who have known each other for a long time already.
@heartlines-spec.comOn the Occasion of Your Daughter Becoming a Kallikantzaros by @avramargariti.bsky.social is now FREE-TO-READ! It's parenting on hard mode...but also a lovely balm for anyone who grew up a little feral.
@heartlines-spec.comYou know how copse is very closer to corpse? 👀 🌲 💀 🍃 The Tree by @authortrsteele.bsky.social is FREE-TO-READ!
@heartlines-spec.comA Knight of Leisure by @jaespersmyth.bsky.social became FREE-TO-READ! It's the coziest fantasy with a grumpy knight, a forgiving spouse, and a missing cat. The perfect balm to get you through the rest of your week!
@heartlines-spec.comlife lesson: we should all be weirder
@heartlines-spec.comWe're midway through our submission period! Send us your stories and poetry that feature characters/situations informed by established relationships.
It's gotta be spec though! We're still getting a lot of submission with only the smallest smattering of Weird/Strange/Magic.
@moniqueac.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.comRainbow Space Magic is a free, virtual weekend of queer speculative fiction, taking place this year on October 3rd & 4th.
Register here to receive updates: www.rainbowspacemagic.org
@ktlyn.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.com"Like Clockwork," a poem in @heartlines-spec.com pulls all the right strings for me. What a beautiful piece.
@nmunrowrites.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.comSpeaking of distant galaxies, extraordinary creatures, and magical worlds... @heartlines-spec.com is open all through September for submissions!! Send us your SFF stories and poems with a long-term relationship at the core! ✨
Guidelines here ➡️ www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
@heartlines-spec.comFishbowlhead by Moh Afdhaal is now FREE-TO-READ!
It all gets weirder as Samil searches the exclusion zone for his brother ❌🏚️⌛
@manuelaamiouny.bsky.socialReposted by @heartlines-spec.com‘tis the season (send me your poems 👀)
