You have until April 1st (no foolsies) to vote!
Heartlines is there under Best Magazine but please write-in any of your fav 2025 stories! We've had some absolute bangers
If you're extra frisky, write-in Rebecca Bennett & Emily Yu as Best Editors
www.heartlines-spec.com/past-issues/
It begins!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Huge congratulations to all the 2026 Rhysling Award nominees🎉 I am also very pleased and excited to spot 2 wonderful @heartlines-spec.com poems on the list 👀
🔮I Consult a Spiritualist by Merna Dyer Skinner
🕯️Missing You, No Matter Where I Am by Anna Madden
Congrats!!!
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"At the End of the World, Meet Me by the Vending Machines" got a nice shoutout here in Myna's roundup. Thank you!
Check out the rest of the fabulous recs below, and if you want to read "Vending Machines" it is available for free with @heartlines-spec.com: www.heartlines-spec.com/at-the-end-o...
Looking for help nominating for the Nebula Poetry Award? Below is a thread of Radon's eligible 2025 sci-fi poetry you can explore
Also check out @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, @heartlines-spec.com for the best (free) spec poetry you can find online
My first poetry publication, and at a venue I adore! Keep an eye out in March—I'll for sure be shouting again when this one is published. 💜
Canadian authors: the registration portal for the Public Lending Right is open now, I've been waiting very patiently to finally have a title to register, and promptly did so this morning. Don't forget to do the same!
publiclendingright.ca
Can't wait to share this poem with you all!
Stoked!
and muscled together with poetry from:
@julesarbeaux.bsky.social
@jordanrhirsch.bsky.social
@samlesek.bsky.social
@ktlynwrites.bsky.social
Y.M. Pang
with all its joints and tendons with nonfiction from:
Lareina Abbott
Lulu Vidal
Issue 10 has its bones! Our exquisite corpse will be affixed with short fiction from:
@pbarmby.bsky.social
Rachel Esser
@crystalkoo.bsky.social
@bookended-islal.bsky.social
Anne Liberton
@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Scott Payne
Julia Raye
For Valentine's Day! My favourite love poem I've written about my favourite human @birchmd.bsky.social. From @heartlines-spec.com!
www.heartlines-spec.com/limitless-by...
A Valentine's offering 💗 A story for the lovers and the leavers, about honouring your past and your future 💞💀💐 @heartlines-spec.com www.heartlines-spec.com/after-ever-h...
Allos, ilu, but I need you to chill for a bit. Aces, this is our time to shine.
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✨ the d r e a m ✨
I'm very happy to have a poem published with @heartlines-spec.com! "Missing You, No Matter Where I Am" is about saying goodbye, and how you can feel homesick and lost even when you’re somewhere magical.
🐦⬛🌒⏳🕯️
Day 34! I read Snow, Stars, Stone by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social published in @heartlines-spec.com. This one is a gorgeous tale with a heavy heart at the bottom of the sea. Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/s...
1. “Counting To A Hundred” by @aishatuado.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com
Love love love the imagery in this. A girl reckons with the tragedy of having to grow up too soon and be a parent to not only her younger brother but also her own parents.
THE DEATH OF DEMONS by @brandoncase101.bsky.social in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social
AT THE END OF THE WORLD, MEET ME BY THE VENDING MACHINES by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com
Will definitely be reading more from these authors. 🙌🏼
"I learned how to sing from a sparrow’s beak,
a steel prosthetic to replace its old and crumpled one."
From "What the Birds Taught Me" in @heartlines-spec.com
www.heartlines-spec.com/what-the-bir...
‼️ ONE MORE WEEK to send in your submissions for @heartlines-spec.com, closing on Jan. 31st ‼️
We're looking for your stories and poems focused on a long-term relationship (any) WITH fantasy or sci-fi. Guidelines and more info here: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Write and submit now!! ✍️
Love in a world of zombies! Enjoy this fun read by @cjtavares.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com It gives you permission to enjoy all the Cheetos!
www.heartlines-spec.com/at-the-end-o...
Come say hi at @tricon-hfx.bsky.social!! Editor @rebecca-b.bsky.social will be buzzing around and ready to talk short fiction
The Shortlist for January 26, 2025:
A new Turn & Work exclusive and five more great stories:
Bill Whitten @dionysusxerox.bsky.social in @turnandwork.com
Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social in @freeflashfiction.bsky.social
Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com
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LAST TEN DAYS FOR GENERAL SUBS! Give us your best relationships!!
“For the Pursuit of the Better” published in @heartlines-spec.com
“Karaya was eleven-years-old when Baba fused a small metal cage into her skull. He said this would give her the mind of a god, because the cage contained an imprisoned god inside it.”
www.heartlines-spec.com/for-the-purs...
Somehow it feels even weirder to promote a non-fiction piece, go figure.
Anyway, I wrote this for @heartlines-spec.com about volunteering at @canconsffh.bsky.social & it's now widely available: www.heartlines-spec.com/volunteering...
Halfway through January and @heartlines-spec.com is still open for submissions! ✨
Send us stories and poems with:
- fantasy 🐉 and/or sci-fi 👽
- a long-term relationship (platonic, romantic, familial)🫂
Keep sending us YOUR works! ✍️
Full guidelines: www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...
Wonderul flash recs from @ideofmarch.bsky.social including a couple from Heartlines 💗
If you’re worried about not have previous pubs or English not being your first language, please don’t! We have editors! Don’t worry about grammar or misspelling in cover letters, errors are human
