Issue Twenty-Six, October 2026

Issue Twenty-Six of Haven Spec Magazine is here! An issue late is better than an issue never, and in these pages you will find the spooky, nostalgic places that are lost to us, the anxious and excited songs of apocalypse that dream of something more, the prayerful remembrance of the dead that we must not forget, and so very much more!

Fiction by T. K. Rex, D. Matthew Urban, Tonja K. Johnson, Chezza Lee, and Francesca Forrest
Poetry by Mari Ness, William Shaw, and Jess Gofton
Cover Art by Corinne Reid
Fiction Reviews by Jessica Luke García

Issue Twenty-Five, August 2026

Issue Twenty-Five of Haven Spec Magazine is here! Each month I write, "The words you'll find on every careful page show hope and love and heartache." And each and every month I mean it. So let this fiction and poetry fill the quiet moments of your day, or let it carry you to the roof to shout out loud, but come with us to feel the ways that we have felt. There are fish in your pockets and fossils on the riverbank, so here's your chance to find out why. And please, spread the word!

Fiction by E.M. Linden, Sydney Sackett, Carol Scheina, C.M. Fields, C.G. Aubrey, and J.A. Bryson
Poetry by Sarah Chin, Mahaila Smith, and Lesley Hart Gunn
Cover Art by Caroline Jamhour

Issue Twenty-Four, July 2026

Issue Twenty-Four of Haven Spec Magazine is here! Read it and slip sideways through the narrow limits of what your senses tell you, and fly through the endless space that lies both beyond your world and at the very center of your soul. There is grief among these pages, and there is hope and there is doubt. Feel the stubborn promise of community, the confidence of the zealot, and the loneliness of the lost who fear they may never be found. And please, spread the word!

Fiction by R.L. Meza, Lora Gray, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, and Dan Peacock
Poetry by Arden Baker, H.V. Patterson, Christopher Leigh Silverberg, and Anna Madden
Non-fiction by Jessica Peter, plus a brief note from the editor and little reviews by our associate editors
Cover art by Caleb Worcester

Issue Twenty-Three, June 2026

Issue Twenty-Three of Haven Spec Magazine is here! This issue will plant its seeds in the loamy soil of your soul, but do not fear the things that grow. They are what sustain us. In these pages, you'll find something much like horror and hope, rage and resignation, and all the other aporetic alliterations that characterize life in this here modern age.

So settle in for fiction by EC Dorgan, Spencer Nitkey, Madi Haab, Corey Farrenkopf, and Emily O'Malley Liu; poetry by Ai Jiang, Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Jordan Hirsch, Lynne Sargent, Oladosu Michael Emerald, and Nico Martinez Nocito; cover art by Carly A-F; and a brief note from the editor.

Issue Twenty-Two, February 2026

Issue Twenty-Two of Haven Spec Magazine is ready! This issue is full of the uncanny, the spooky, and the delightfully strange, and in these pages, you'll find fiction by Lex Chamberlin, Janel Comeau, Cressida Roe, Dafydd McKimm, and Lee Zanello; poetry by Eleanor Ball, Sophia Zhao, Marisca Pichette, Arthur H. Manners, and Erin Brown; a poetry round-up by our poetry editor Jessica Peter, and thoughts on the issue's fiction by our very own associate editors! Subscribers get the issue on February 13th, 2026, and the free-to-read online version goes up on February 23rd.