On Spec Magazine

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Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Other magazines will fill the void and establish their own reputations. 35 years is enough.

Kerry, we are wishing you and Augur all the best as you go forward with all the initiatives.

She’s right about this. Our stories don’t get stale or go bad. Something we published 5 or 10 or 30 years ago still has an amazing shelf life.

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

On Spec Issue #133 Preview Here’s a peek at what we’re offering in this issue: We’re happy to bring back some writers you’ve seen on our pages before. And equally happy to introduce new voices at the start of the…

Check out my tiny tale about an irresponsible father taking baby steps towards redemption as the apocalypse removes his ability to procrastinate. (A story that has nothing to do with my actual life!) Thanks to @onspecmag.bsky.social for giving my 100-word opus a great home. onspec.ca/2025/09/19/o...

On Spec Issue #133 Preview Here’s a peek at what we’re offering in this issue: We’re happy to bring back some writers you’ve seen on our pages before. And equally happy to introduce new voices at the start of the…

In case you missed it: my story "Two Voices, One Song" a tale of overnight horror set in Iceland, will be in the next issue of On Spec magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social ! More info here:

onspec.ca/2025/09/19/o...

Check out my story, "An Unsparing Harvest," in the latest issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social! It's perfect for the spooky season. weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3 Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

Thrilled to announce that the contracts have been signed and NeWest Press (@newestpress.bsky.social) will be republishing my novel NAPIER'S BONES, possibly as a Landmark Edition, possibly as a part of Barbour Books, their new SF/F line. #publishing

We just added a few more back issues of On Spec to our Ko-fi shop. Yours for 99 cents or pay what you will. These and more can also be found at Weightless Books. Help us out with a small donation and enjoy the stories!

Are you in Alberta? You can read On Spec along with many other Alberta-produced magazines by searching the digital magazine options at any Alberta public library!

Issue #133 is at the proofing stage now. But you can buy and read #132 while you wait!

We just added a few more back issues of On Spec to our Ko-fi shop. Yours for 99 cents or pay what you will. These and more can also be found at Weightless Books. Help us out with a small donation and enjoy the stories!

Almost ready to send On Spec Issue #133 to the designer for a mid-September release. Please support us by making a small donation or purchasing a copy of issue #132 from our Ko-fi page.

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On Spec hasn’t had a Kickstarter to raise funds for production of new issues, but buying even a single issue from our Ko-fi page will add up if enough of you do it.
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If you buy a copy of our new issue, it helps us to pay more fabulous writers, poets and artists!

Cover art for On Spec #132, featuring the surface of a moon with domed craters, a lander taking off, stars and a habitable world in the sky

New issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social is here! weightlessbooks.com/on-spec-maga...

Image shows an artist's rendition of a lunar landscape with a spacecraft about to land on it.

On Spec's New issue is now ready! New fiction and poetry, along with author interviews and cool interior art. Beautiful cover by Dan O'Driscoll. Buy at ko-fi.com/s/ad25118618

Our friends at the Sunburst Award have announced this year's Long list of juried titles. These titles are a selection of the best Canadian-authored SFF books received for 2024. Check them out. www.sunburstaward.org/node/143 Winner to be announced in the Fall.

Book promo post. A book shaped white rectangle dominates the left-hand side of the image. A portion of the white has peeled away like paper, revealing part of a book title, Starship Librarians. Additional text reads Cover Reveal Coming Soon. Tyche Books Dot Com.

Goood morning! It's time to announce the Table of Contents for the anthology Starship Librarians, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell! 🧵incoming--and at the end, we will reveal the cover! (so stick around!)


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We would certainly add our name to this initiative. Not sure how.

We would really appreciate some new sales on our Ko-fi page. It will help us to buy new stories. Every little bit helps.

Issue #132 is close to completion after final edits done. Beautiful cover by Dan O’Driscoll.

All set up for the weekend at Y-Con in Yarmouth NS. That’s our pet Tribble on the table.

We are proofreading the new issue right now. Should be ready by early June.