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Devan Barlow

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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 icon:@liuet.bsky.social

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · Apr 22

✨Buy my books!!!✨

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Fairytales-meet-musicals fantasy novels!
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Short fic/poetry retelling collection!
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Cover of Foolish Hopes and Spilled Entrails: Retellings, by Devan Barlow, featuring numerous fantastical objects surrounding a smoking cauldron, against a dark red background. The cover is by Arden Powell.

Cover of An Uncommon Curse by Devan Barlow, featuring a golden bird against a green background. The cover is by K.B. Spangler. This is book 1 of the Curses & Curtains series

Cover of An Uncertain Murder by Devan Barlow, featuring golden tentacles, fish, and a ring against a blue background. The cover is by K.B. Spangler. This is book 2 in the Curses & Curtains series.

Cover for An Unexpected Feast by Devan Barlow, featuring a golden cupcake and capering horses on a red background, interspersed with sparkles. Cover by K.B. Spangler. This is book 3 in the Curses & Curtains series.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3h

This is the wonderful cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social for the October issue of The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com—for which I had the great pleasure of being the fiction guest editor!—with stories by Malena Salazar Maciá, Testimony Odey, Erin Ulm, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, Kat Sedia, and Scott Payne

$The cover of The Deadlands Issue 40, Fall 2025. Subtitled "a journal of ends and beginnings". Author names on the cover are Maciá, Biscotti, Odey, Ross, Ulm, Wollin, Amado, Pearce, Lemberg, Sedia, Romano, and Payne. The cover art shows a fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 6h

Legit thought this was gonna start with SASEs 😅

A good thread, seriously. It’s not just you— things are ROUGH out there in short fic land…

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 6h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · Jul 9

Buy my books, help me keep Ben in blankets!

#Booksky 💙📚

A black and white dog snuggles with a multicolored blanket.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 3h

If you have a story pending with Must Read Media (includes F&SF, Analog, Asimov's, Ellery Queen), definitely check out Ben's contract before you sign anything.

There've been contract shenanigans there and this is useful ammo to bring to negotiations.

Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com · 1d

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.

Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.

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Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...

Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 6d

Include my collection in your autumnal activities!

Arthurian retellings!
Norse and Greek and Celtic myth retellings!
Shakespeare retellings!
Fairy tale retellings!
Jewish folklore retellings!
So many retellings by me!

Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · Apr 20

Pick up my collection today!

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 10h

Tomorrow is the last day to snap up this bundle of signed 1st edition novels and support @thepixelproject.bsky.social in their goal of ending domestic violence against women and girls.

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#booksky

Signed 1st edition copies of my middle grade novels ROOT MAGIC, CONJURE ISLAND, AND THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE against a red background. Two of the books have silver Walter Award Honor stickers.

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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 10h

Did you know that the Luna Novella series begun in 2020? Amazing authors from all over the world, bringing you SFFH of all flavours! Take a look in our store (and don't forget the bundles!) www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella

Luna Novella | Luna Press Publishing

Award Winning Scottish Publisher. Luna Press Publishing Book Store. UK Publishers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dark Fantasy in Fiction and Academia.

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 8h

Yay pastries!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1d

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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intelligentwat 🇹🇹 @zinrock.bsky.social · 11h

i cannot thank y'all enough for the donations and shares. i've got a ways to go (GFM is increasing incrementally) as the tuition is $3k. i also need to book my flight, which is just under $900. please like, share, donate as much as you can!

intelligentwat 🇹🇹 @zinrock.bsky.social · 3d

y'all are so dope. I made the deposit and then some which will go towards the plane ticket since I don't want rates to skyrocket.

I still have a ways to go. every bit helps!

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Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 10h

Zin is an amazing writer & an amazing human. I really want to see more of her work! Will you help her get to Under the Volcano?

intelligentwat 🇹🇹 @zinrock.bsky.social · 3d

y'all are so dope. I made the deposit and then some which will go towards the plane ticket since I don't want rates to skyrocket.

I still have a ways to go. every bit helps!

gofund.me/35f5cb65e

Donate to Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey, organized by Teri Clarke

hello, all! my name is Teri Clarke and I write horror and dark fantasy under the… Teri Clarke needs your support for Support Teri Clarke's Writing Journey

gofund.me

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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 9h

Harvey also likes to look out the car window. He rests his jowls on the door so they don't flap in the wind.

A black-masked, brindle-striped, fawn and white boxer sits against a car seat with his face resting on the door.

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WonderWench @psygeek.bsky.social · 12h

Help out my friend @pezyes.lol with some basic income to survive this period of income instability and Pezluck. (Pezluck is invariably bad and appears to be an inherited curse from an ancestor mortally offending the Good Neighbors).

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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

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 9h

I am so, so sorry 🫂

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 12h

People knew how to write headlines, once upon a time.

Tell children today that, they won't believe you.

Newspaper website headline: "Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40."

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 10h

Snooooot
#DailyDoggo

Just a dachshund-mix's snoot sticking out from under an orange and white blanket

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 9h

Ooh! It was an HBO show from the early 2000s about a traveling carnival in the Dust Bowl. Only ran for 2 of a hoped-for 6 seasons, but IMO those two are still worth watching for neat weirdness and such

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 10h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 9h

Have you ever seen Carnivale?

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 13h

Final day!!!

All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social · 15h

It’s the final day for Into the Dark. We’re still about $2,200 short—unless something miraculous happens, we won’t fund.

If you’ve been meaning to back, today’s the last chance. Even if we fall short, thank you for helping us⬇️

👉https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allworldswayfarer/into-the-dark-2

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 13h

marvelous!

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

My unhinged literary opinion is that you should buy all my small press and indie pub friends books.

ALL.

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 13h

Coming Soon: Issue 100! Celebrate with us💖

"Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body"

Works in Fantasy Magazine often speak to those who find home in liminal spaces. Issue 100 will absolutely sing!

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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 20h

Wondering why you only slept 2 hours and now you're wide awake at 3:00 am with no idea what to do? Worry not. It's just so that you can be among the first in the world to taste this bit of awesome-sauce: www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... #kickstarter #prelaunch #thecookout #anthology #optin

Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 13h

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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