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"Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more. "
"Haven Spec is a speculative fiction magazine featuring stories for a 21st century audience. We love stories with a sense of adventure, stories that teach us, that touch us, that leave us wanting more. "
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Acceptance Rate
Payment
Yes: see Genres section for details
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
Yes
Expedited response
No
Available in print
No
Provides contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
5 genres
Fiction
Max words: 6000
We like stories that are subtle in their telling and stick with us long after we've finished. We're more likely to buy stories that balance ...
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
We like articles on politics and pop culture, articles steeped in science or otherwise verging on the academic, and pieces with funny or int...
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We like poems that use complex fixed verse forms (think sestina, awdl gywydd, masnavi, etc), but we're not against blank or free verse.
Translation
There's so much great fiction in languages we can't read, and we'd like to change that. So if you have a translation of a story that has nev...
Art
If you think your work would look great on the cover of a science fiction and fantasy magazine, send us your best work and be sure to includ...
Fiction
Max words: 6000
We like stories that are subtle in their telling and stick with us long after we've finished. We're more likely to buy stories that balance ...
Nonfiction
Max words: 3000
We like articles on politics and pop culture, articles steeped in science or otherwise verging on the academic, and pieces with funny or int...
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
We like poems that use complex fixed verse forms (think sestina, awdl gywydd, masnavi, etc), but we're not against blank or free verse.
Translation
There's so much great fiction in languages we can't read, and we'd like to change that. So if you have a translation of a story that has nev...
Art
If you think your work would look great on the cover of a science fiction and fantasy magazine, send us your best work and be sure to includ...
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27
Total submissions tracked
45 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
11 days
Fastest response time
110 days
Slowest response time
How to submit
Process
We use our own submissions form at https://www.havenspec.com/forms/
Cover letters
We will also accept a limited number of previously published poems, so please indicate on the form if your submission is a reprint.
Eligibility
LGBTQ+ creatorsAll marginalized creators
Formatting
All submissions must use the Shunn manuscript format (we prefer Courier New) and be either .rtf, .doc, or .docx.
Rights for published work
This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.
Additional info
Our submission cycle is split into two categories, where every other month is explicitly reserved for submissions by authors of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups. Pays! 1¢ per word for fiction, non-fiction and translations, $5 for poems under one page (standard formatting) and $10 for longer poems. $35 for cover art We favor submisions that have not been published before (including on your own website), though we do accept a limited number of reprints
About the Magazine
Founded in 2021 | United States
We publish six issues every year, two of which (the DRY Issue and the WET Issue) are focused exclusively on the climate crisis and themes of displacement (very broadly defined). The crisis facing our planet is immediate and all-encompassing, and it will affect people of color, people living in poverty, and the working classes most of all. The popular metaphor is going over a cliff, but we prefer the tempest, the torrent, the flood. The waters are rising, but we can save ourselves. It's not too late.
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Leon Perniciaro
Editor-in-Chief
Examples
3 pieces from Chill Subs people
