Our Origin Story
Havok Magazine was the brain child of the Splickety Publishing Group. Havok brought subscribers a quarterly dose of speculative flash fiction in sleek and shiny magazine form. We published science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, cyberpunk, paranormal, supernatural, horror, techno-thriller, superhero, and more from best-selling and award winning authors to never-before-published writers.
Metamorphosis
Splickety Publishing Group ceased to exist as of January 1, 2019. But its most successful imprint, Havok Magazine, lives on. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Havok was reborn as Havok Publishing. In our first year as Havok Publishing, we published more stories than five combined years as Havok Magazine. Now, we’re on our eighth year of a mysterious sci-fi thrill ride where our wacky fantastical stories (did we mention award winning?) delight readers each weekday. To put it simply: we’re your weekly dose of flash fiction fun and have been since 2019.
And it doesn’t stop there. The best-of-the-best stories are collected into anthologies for you to take along in your pocket or on paper.
Today
The team at Havok Publishing is proud to serve the greater speculative fiction reading and writing community. We’re still publishing stories from best-selling and award winning authors to never-before-published writers. Become a subscriber to access our archive of more than 1,900 stories, penned by more than 550 brilliant minds. And don’t forget to join us online every weekday to read the latest Havok we’re wreaking.
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Havok News Around the Net
- Havok author and editor Olivia Gratehouse wins the 2026 Flash Fiction Realm Award for her story Godspeed, Spaulding
- Havok senior graphic designer Jenneth Leed wins the 2026 Cover Design Realm Award for her cover redesign for Daughter of Light by Morgan Busse
- Havok co-founder and director Teddi Deppner wins the 2026 Novelette/Novella Realm Award for her story The Keeper’s Voice, published in the Parabolic Orbits anthology by Onward & Upward Media, LLC
- Havok author and editor Olivia Gratehouse wins the 2025 Short Story Realm Award for her story Krakensong (independently published)
- Havok author Hannah Hershberger wins the 2025 Flash Fiction Realm Award for her story Sparks
- Havok author Cathy McCrumb wins the 2024 Short Story Realm Award for her story “Inversion” (featured in our Season Eight: Vice & Virtue anthology). Also mentioned in Publishers Weekly’s coverage of the Realm Makers conference event.
- Havok authors Hannah Carter, Moriah Chavis, Teddi Deppner, Amber Kirkpatrick, Cathy McCrumb, Karyne Norton, Lincoln Reed, Andrea Renae, Jenelle Leanne Schmidt, Jill Williamson, and Havok Story Podcast narrator Magnus Carlssen are finalists in the 2024 Realm Awards.
- Havok author Hannah Carter wins the 2022 Realm Award for Flash Fiction for her story A Home for Nova
- Havok author Edward Sand wins the 2022 Realm Award for Very Short Audio for his story Dragon’s Spite as featured on the Havok Story Podcast, narrated by Shogo Miyakita
- Havok author Ronnell Kay Gibson wins the 2021 Realm Award for Flash Fiction for her story The Voice of Cancer
- Havok author A. C. Williams wins the 2021 Realm Award for Audio Short for her story Why God Made Beer as featured on the Havok Story Podcast
- Havok Publishing listed on Kindlepreneur’s list of writing contests

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