Devan Barlow
@devanbarlow.bsky.social
Writer of things.
https://devan-barlow.itch.io/
devanbarlow.com
she/her
2025 Hugo Poetry Nominee
books, dogs, fairy tales, theatre, tea, coffee, sea monsters, crafts
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https://devan-barlow.itch.io/
devanbarlow.com
she/her
2025 Hugo Poetry Nominee
books, dogs, fairy tales, theatre, tea, coffee, sea monsters, crafts
icon:@liuet.bsky.social
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Devan Barlow
@devanbarlow.bsky.social
· Nov 11
✨Buy my books!!!✨
devan-barlow.itch.io
Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels!
books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
books2read.com/u/bp1nBW
books2read.com/u/bOD2LE
Short fic/poetry retelling collections!
books2read.com/u/bOqZKN
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io
Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels!
books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
books2read.com/u/bp1nBW
books2read.com/u/bOD2LE
Short fic/poetry retelling collections!
books2read.com/u/bOqZKN
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
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"When I got engaged to Demetrius, I didn't know he was an enchanted Prince who turned into a bird every night.
It's not the sort of question you think to ask."
- Book 1, An Uncommon Curse
It's not the sort of question you think to ask."
- Book 1, An Uncommon Curse
Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another
devan-barlow.itch.io
books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
books2read.com/u/bp1nBW
books2read.com/u/bOD2LE
#BookSky 💙📚
devan-barlow.itch.io
books2read.com/u/bzKXBj
books2read.com/u/bp1nBW
books2read.com/u/bOD2LE
#BookSky 💙📚
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"When I got engaged to Demetrius, I didn't know he was an enchanted Prince who turned into a bird every night.
It's not the sort of question you think to ask."
- Book 1, An Uncommon Curse
It's not the sort of question you think to ask."
- Book 1, An Uncommon Curse
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All my books are entirely written by me, a human, with cover art by humans!
Help me keep Ben in biscuits and blankets!
Help me keep Ben in biscuits and blankets!
January 21, 2026 at 5:44 PM
All my books are entirely written by me, a human, with cover art by humans!
Help me keep Ben in biscuits and blankets!
Help me keep Ben in biscuits and blankets!
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🧶 latest bracelet
January 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
🧶 latest bracelet
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One of my beloved friends has had a shitty day on top of the reality of existing in the Twin Cities right now so if you have the ability to toss a spare buck or two OR just boost this, I'd be very grateful: www.gofundme.com/f/putting-th...
Donate to Putting the Brakes on the Breakdown, organized by Linda T
Pez. Potato. PezNo. PezYes. To know Pez is to know joy and laughter and occasionally needi… Linda T needs your support for Putting the Brakes on the Breakdown
www.gofundme.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
One of my beloved friends has had a shitty day on top of the reality of existing in the Twin Cities right now so if you have the ability to toss a spare buck or two OR just boost this, I'd be very grateful: www.gofundme.com/f/putting-th...
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We might be getting more snow this weekend and I need the weather to calm down
Anyways please buy an octopus
ko-fi.com/quietnovastu...
🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #octopus #cephalopod #art #craft #oceansky #ocean #SciArt #coffee #bsnm #market
Anyways please buy an octopus
ko-fi.com/quietnovastu...
🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #octopus #cephalopod #art #craft #oceansky #ocean #SciArt #coffee #bsnm #market
January 27, 2026 at 5:17 PM
We might be getting more snow this weekend and I need the weather to calm down
Anyways please buy an octopus
ko-fi.com/quietnovastu...
🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #octopus #cephalopod #art #craft #oceansky #ocean #SciArt #coffee #bsnm #market
Anyways please buy an octopus
ko-fi.com/quietnovastu...
🧶 #amigurumi #crochet #octopus #cephalopod #art #craft #oceansky #ocean #SciArt #coffee #bsnm #market
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Vida is a dear friend, new mom, and an incredibly hard-working and precious member of our SFF community. She's dealing with some serious and costly medical issues, and if you have the capacity to help, I'd be so grateful.
Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social could use a little more help at this time. Do check out her fundraiser gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...
Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja
Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...
gogetfunding.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Vida is a dear friend, new mom, and an incredibly hard-working and precious member of our SFF community. She's dealing with some serious and costly medical issues, and if you have the capacity to help, I'd be so grateful.
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house that eats people!!!
come for the fairy tale inversion, stay for gross doors.
come for the fairy tale inversion, stay for gross doors.
"The Messengers of Despair" by Jordan Kurella in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
This story has the grossest door closing I can recall in memory. "A wet and closing sound, and I was the one being closed within."
Inversion/untelling of a fairy tale.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
This story has the grossest door closing I can recall in memory. "A wet and closing sound, and I was the one being closed within."
Inversion/untelling of a fairy tale.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Messengers of Despair by Jordan Kurella
It was a house. Impossibly a house; an impossible house in the wood that had odd angles and wrong doors. It had neither foundation nor stairs. Instead it had roots, growing out of the earth like a tre...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:23 PM
house that eats people!!!
come for the fairy tale inversion, stay for gross doors.
come for the fairy tale inversion, stay for gross doors.
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📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
26 January 2026
Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special!
strangehorizons.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
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Launched today! Our new anthology Fascination, edited by @rhondaparrish.bsky.social is live on Kickstarter. Fungi, poppets, witches & other creatures that should be cozy, but absolutely aren't. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Launched today! Our new anthology Fascination, edited by @rhondaparrish.bsky.social is live on Kickstarter. Fungi, poppets, witches & other creatures that should be cozy, but absolutely aren't. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
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Greg Ketter, founder/owner of DreamHaven Books & Comics, Winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Retail Award, 1999.
As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation.
www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...
As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation.
www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Greg Ketter, founder/owner of DreamHaven Books & Comics, Winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Retail Award, 1999.
As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation.
www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...
As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation.
www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...
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incidentally: Felicia Davin’s French Letters trilogy are among the best fucking romances I’ve read in the past ten years. they’re funny, incredibly inventive, creatively queer, and emotionally rich.
also REAL SEXY.
www.feliciadavin.com/books/
also REAL SEXY.
www.feliciadavin.com/books/
January 26, 2026 at 8:37 PM
incidentally: Felicia Davin’s French Letters trilogy are among the best fucking romances I’ve read in the past ten years. they’re funny, incredibly inventive, creatively queer, and emotionally rich.
also REAL SEXY.
www.feliciadavin.com/books/
also REAL SEXY.
www.feliciadavin.com/books/
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meanwhile it's already free on itch!
if a book about two variously nonbinary youths making horny bad decisions in magic 1820s Paris sounds fun to you, I would recommend you download it there. ~10 sex scenes, some murders, zero dollars feliciadavin.itch.io/vandj
if a book about two variously nonbinary youths making horny bad decisions in magic 1820s Paris sounds fun to you, I would recommend you download it there. ~10 sex scenes, some murders, zero dollars feliciadavin.itch.io/vandj
The Scandalous Letters of V and J (French Letters, Book 1) by FeliciaDavin
queer romance told in letters, set in magic 1820s Paris
feliciadavin.itch.io
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
meanwhile it's already free on itch!
if a book about two variously nonbinary youths making horny bad decisions in magic 1820s Paris sounds fun to you, I would recommend you download it there. ~10 sex scenes, some murders, zero dollars feliciadavin.itch.io/vandj
if a book about two variously nonbinary youths making horny bad decisions in magic 1820s Paris sounds fun to you, I would recommend you download it there. ~10 sex scenes, some murders, zero dollars feliciadavin.itch.io/vandj
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I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL
(also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but)
(tweet TWEEET)
(also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but)
(tweet TWEEET)
January 27, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL
(also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but)
(tweet TWEEET)
(also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but)
(tweet TWEEET)
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In a world that is burning, why would you cede control over the one space that gives you comfort? I get it. But in engaging with weird or dark fiction, perhaps your comfort zone expands. Perhaps it gives you the catharsis that you were seeking.
January 27, 2026 at 6:18 PM
In a world that is burning, why would you cede control over the one space that gives you comfort? I get it. But in engaging with weird or dark fiction, perhaps your comfort zone expands. Perhaps it gives you the catharsis that you were seeking.
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I’ve been told to my face that my work is too strange + dense and will not resonate at this moment in time, but in two years, it might. I’ve also been told to write more linearly with clear distinctions between good/bad. “Make weird art” is a fun slogan, sure. But are you willing to engage with it?
I think its all well and good to tell people to make weird art or art that is non conformist.
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I’ve been told to my face that my work is too strange + dense and will not resonate at this moment in time, but in two years, it might. I’ve also been told to write more linearly with clear distinctions between good/bad. “Make weird art” is a fun slogan, sure. But are you willing to engage with it?
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One of the projects I am very excited about in 2026 is the anthology, ANIMAL NOIR from Little Key Press.
Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl.
Cover reveal below!
Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl.
Cover reveal below!
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 PM
One of the projects I am very excited about in 2026 is the anthology, ANIMAL NOIR from Little Key Press.
Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl.
Cover reveal below!
Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl.
Cover reveal below!
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And just thinking back right now....I see ppl yelling every day yeah be weird, yeah do that, go there which again I love but the other aspects of it, the loneliness, the oh I think this, is not marketable (someone will now yell fuck the market I'm sure) are not addressed. It's very isolating.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 AM
And just thinking back right now....I see ppl yelling every day yeah be weird, yeah do that, go there which again I love but the other aspects of it, the loneliness, the oh I think this, is not marketable (someone will now yell fuck the market I'm sure) are not addressed. It's very isolating.
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But the inner fortitude to keep going in a system that is actively selecting against weird, or a community that is only looking for familiar things that comfort them is something a weirdo has to keep up. And all of that in every day adds up.
January 25, 2026 at 2:26 AM
But the inner fortitude to keep going in a system that is actively selecting against weird, or a community that is only looking for familiar things that comfort them is something a weirdo has to keep up. And all of that in every day adds up.
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Being weird or different or doing non conformist things will get you gate kept or it will cause ppl to be off put by you. Sometimes an artist doesn't notice these things and other times they do. Yelling I want weird is very supportive and vital and it can keep someone creating +
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Being weird or different or doing non conformist things will get you gate kept or it will cause ppl to be off put by you. Sometimes an artist doesn't notice these things and other times they do. Yelling I want weird is very supportive and vital and it can keep someone creating +
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I think its all well and good to tell people to make weird art or art that is non conformist.
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I think its all well and good to tell people to make weird art or art that is non conformist.
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
I've been thinking abt this a lot tho and I think it's also important to acknowledge the pushback artists of all kinds get for that. Yes create weird but also, often being weird is very lonely or +
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The world is a scary place but I continue to make pretty things to share with you and bring a little joy to people. All profits go to support my household of neurodivergent and mostly queer adults and my heart sister’s household of Onöndowa’ga women.
www.feralrosejewels.com/shop
www.feralrosejewels.com/shop
Shop — Feral Rose Jewels
www.feralrosejewels.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The world is a scary place but I continue to make pretty things to share with you and bring a little joy to people. All profits go to support my household of neurodivergent and mostly queer adults and my heart sister’s household of Onöndowa’ga women.
www.feralrosejewels.com/shop
www.feralrosejewels.com/shop
Includes Celtic myth in space, were-mollusks, and a terrifying book club!
🎉It's my book day!🎉
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Includes Celtic myth in space, were-mollusks, and a terrifying book club!
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JUST LAUNCHED! Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
By a Canadian editor & Canadian publisher, w/ a global group of authors!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
By a Canadian editor & Canadian publisher, w/ a global group of authors!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
JUST LAUNCHED! Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
By a Canadian editor & Canadian publisher, w/ a global group of authors!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
By a Canadian editor & Canadian publisher, w/ a global group of authors!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...