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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

10 weeks / 45 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • 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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Track submission

27

Total submissions tracked

45 days

Average response time

0%

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