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Adria Bailton

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Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens, queer, ND, she/they Member of SFWA, Codex See more at www.adriabailton.com

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · Mar 27

I've been promising Big News for 3 months now and here it is!

Balance of Seven has acquired rights for my debut YA science fiction novel, Worlds Divide! Publication is slated for March 2026.

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Balance of Seven, Keeping the Magic in Publishing, Book Deal Announcement, Worlds, Debut YA Science Fiction Novel, photo of Adria Bailton, by Adria Bailton, Coming March 2026 on a gray-blue background

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 2h

This week (specifically Friday), newsletter subscribers will get first notice of how to join my street team for my YA SF debut. If you're interested, sign up now!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 10h

If you've already read Watermyth and would like to check out other works by me, did you know I have 27 published works of short fiction that have been reprinted and sometimes translated? Also poems:

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Bibliography – through wildwood, through water

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 10h

My street team sign-ups go public on Friday, but you can see all the behind-the-scenes and sign-up info early by joining my Discord server

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Join the Stories Across Worlds Discord Server!

Check out the Stories Across Worlds community on Discord - hang out with 35 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 13h

Sitting here on a day off work, working on my dev edits and listening to the 3 hr+ playlist this story has reached since I first wrote this version in 2019.

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 16h

New albo leaf! I purposefully picked this plant because it had a new leaf shoot. It's got the same number of fenestrations as other leaves and isn't as white, but it's a beauty nonetheless!

A photo of a white hand held up against a variegated, fenestrated Monstera albo leaf

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 17h

Two weeks ago, I suggested the OTHERSIDE Kickstarter. I love their patreon. If you want to continually support a queer, spec-fic magazine, consider their patreon: www.patreon.com/c/OthersideS...

Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

a magazine of the queer fantastic.

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 19h

who wants a cover reveal tomorrow around noon EST??? get ready bc holy shit this is like my dream cover

#author

sage green book cover with the corner peeled back, revealing part of a tree, foliage, and possibly antlers. text on the cover reads "The Lord of the Wood, E.M. Anderson, cover reveal tomorrow."

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 22h

Have you read?

Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch’s Frog Faire by Indigo Rue at Small Wonders

What is destiny?

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Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch’s Frog Faire - Small Wonders

"How's that saying go?" Elsamina scooped a frog from the pond with a long-handled net. "You gotta kiss a few of these before you find your prince." She lifted the slimy creature towards Lilaclaire's…

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 1d

Today's throwback story rec is Story Kit by Kij Johnson at Lightspeed (2020) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/stor...

Story Kit - Lightspeed Magazine

The pain of losing something so precious that you did not think you could live without it. Oxygen. The ice breaks beneath your feet: Your coat and boots fill with water and pull you down. An airlock b...

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 2d

Peaches loves looking out the car window.

A red and white Boston terrier with a pink collary has her paws up on a door handle looking out an open car window at the green shrubs.

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 2d

Today's throwback story rec is Our Days of Tear-Stained Glass by Avra Margariti at Baffling Magazine (2021) www.bafflingmag.com/issue-four/o...

Our Days of Tear-Stained Glass — Baffling Magazine

by Avra Margariti “Our ship remembers the sea…”

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 3d

My Thai Constellation put up a new leaf with a single fenestration!

A new leaf sticks up against other speckled leaves in a window.

A Thai Constellation Monstera leaf unfurls, a single fenestration is visible. Two other speckled green and white leaves are visit, against a pink background.

A new Thai Constellation leaf with a single fenestration. It still needs to harden.

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 3d

Have you read?

Little Trinkets by A. J. Sharpe at The Deadlands

Another story about crows to round out the week.

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Little Trinkets - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

You lie alone in a field, discarded—they do not need you anymore.

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 4d

My first audio production of a story was the same first story to be published! "Submerged" gained a voice at Manawaker Flash Fiction podcast. Have a listen!

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Submerged – FFP 0822

“Submerged” by Adria Bailton Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast is supported by patrons on Patreon: Contributor Bios: Please consider supporting Manawaker Studio with a purc…

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 4d

Visit Banned Books Week. org to learn items you can do this week to fight censorship!

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Let Freedom Read Day | Banned Books Week

The freedom to read is under attack — let’s do something about it!

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 4d

Have you read?

The Truth About Crows by Jo Miles at Factor Four

A dragon meets a crow, and we all know they both adore shinies.

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The Truth About Crows by Jo Miles

The clink of gold against diamonds woke Artrullaxi the Magnificent from her slumber, and she held statue-still, listening. Someone had intruded on her lair. Another knight with more ambition than s…

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 5d

Peaches lays in the sun on her blue dog bed.

A red and white Boston terrier with a black and pink nose lays on a blue bed on a white porch.

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 5d

Have you read?

Gifted and Talented by Marika Bailey at Small Wonders

A list of fairy tales, retold.

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Gifted and Talented - Small Wonders

Being beyond time is a revolution against creation most bodies aren’t built to bear. It’ll kill you, that dark matter time.

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 6d

A neighbor gave me these. If you pick them at this time of year, when they turn from green to red, they'll last all year without any water. It's a special New England thing. I love these special regional things.

Green and red flowers in a glass against a white background.

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 6d

I really and truly enjoy Catherine Tavares's newsletter and you can, too! check it out at

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Catherine Tavares' Newsletter

Updates, news, and insights from speculative fiction author Catherine Tavares

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 6d

In September, I participated in a Settings collab on Instagram with the 2026 debut group.

I thought BlueSky might enjoy some of the images too!

A poscard against a blue sky with clouds and a sun setting over water. The postcard says Meet the 2026 Debuts Group 2 with a goose on a skateboard. Authors share the SETTINGS of your next favorite stories!

A postcard against a blue sky with wispy clouds and a sun setting over water. The postcard has an image of a white person with gray-brown hair in a halter and surly necklace against a green background. It says Meet the #2026Debuts Adria Bailton Greetings from your next favorite book setting... Omaha, NE on parallel worlds, one contemporary and one late '80s/early '90s Worlds Divide YA Science Fiction 4/17/26

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 6d

Have you read?

Jujubes by Kim Yudam translated from Korean by Sunnie Chae

Satisfying a dying grandmother's wish.

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Jujubes - Words Without Borders

A teen and her cousin fulfill their dying grandmother’s wish and prompt an unsettling revelation in this short story from South Korea’s Kim Yudam.

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 7d

I visited an Aldi for the first time today. My partner said, "Aldi is supposed to help you save money. But I think that's not true for you."

I found so many fun things to try and buy!

I couldn't resist this pumpkin gravy boat and this pumpkin casserole dish. I wanted to buy all 3 sizes!

A white gravy boat in the shape of a pumpkin (right) and an orange pumpkin casserole dish sit on a wood chair against a blue wall.

Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 7d

Having missed Flights of Foundry last weekend due to life, I'm checking out their youtube for past conferences and sessions I couldn't attend.

www.youtube.com/@dream_foundry

Dream Foundry

Welcome to the Dream Foundry's YouTube channel! We're a nonprofit helping beginners in the speculative arts - if you create or help to make something not of this world, we're here for you. That…

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 7d

Have you read?

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju at Inner Worlds

A story of loss and grief and familial ties.

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Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju

Fingers twisted from arthritis. A wet bandage over his right hand seeping a wound the local healer had inflicted. Trying, failing, to fix a hand only decade shy of a century.

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