Ava DeVries
@avadevries.bsky.social
she/her 🌈 words at https://www.avadevries.com/
hybrid editor @bellinghamreview.bsky.social
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
hybrid editor @bellinghamreview.bsky.social
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
hngrmtn.org
Issue 33 of Hunger Mountain is out today, including my flash piece “Sweatheart” 🖤
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
Issue 33 of Hunger Mountain is out today, including my flash piece “Sweatheart” 🖤
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
hngrmtn.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Issue 33 of Hunger Mountain is out today, including my flash piece “Sweatheart” 🖤
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
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Submissions are still open & we want to read your work!
To get those creative ideas flowing, our staff has written these lovely genre blurbs!
Part 2 of these blurbs will be coming at you soon! If you want an early look at what our other editors enjoy check out our website at the link in our bio!!
To get those creative ideas flowing, our staff has written these lovely genre blurbs!
Part 2 of these blurbs will be coming at you soon! If you want an early look at what our other editors enjoy check out our website at the link in our bio!!
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Submissions are still open & we want to read your work!
To get those creative ideas flowing, our staff has written these lovely genre blurbs!
Part 2 of these blurbs will be coming at you soon! If you want an early look at what our other editors enjoy check out our website at the link in our bio!!
To get those creative ideas flowing, our staff has written these lovely genre blurbs!
Part 2 of these blurbs will be coming at you soon! If you want an early look at what our other editors enjoy check out our website at the link in our bio!!
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If you haven't seen The Lair of the White Worm, you need to see The Lair of the White Worm, if only for the scene where Amanda Donohoe emerges from a wicker basket like some kind of snake woman (because she is some kind of snake woman)
"I love Mr. Flint's hole. It’s rather fascinating.” @avadevries.bsky.social checks out the bisexual vamps and uptight Brits in the wackadoo folk horror flick THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social.
www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...
www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm on Horror Homeroom
www.horrorhomeroom.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you haven't seen The Lair of the White Worm, you need to see The Lair of the White Worm, if only for the scene where Amanda Donohoe emerges from a wicker basket like some kind of snake woman (because she is some kind of snake woman)
submit your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work!
guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
submit your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work!
guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
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❄️All we want this holiday season…is for you to submit your writing to the magazine!❄️
Submissions are OPEN NOW!
We can’t wait to read your work and wish you all a happy holiday season!
Submissions are OPEN NOW!
We can’t wait to read your work and wish you all a happy holiday season!
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
❄️All we want this holiday season…is for you to submit your writing to the magazine!❄️
Submissions are OPEN NOW!
We can’t wait to read your work and wish you all a happy holiday season!
Submissions are OPEN NOW!
We can’t wait to read your work and wish you all a happy holiday season!
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a thread of my 2025 publications!
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
a thread of my 2025 publications!
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Got a bookworm significant other?
Stuff an FC2 title or two in their stocking!
(& why not get a book for their birthday & Valentine's while you're at it?)
This sale runs through January 1st & includes preorders!
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
Stuff an FC2 title or two in their stocking!
(& why not get a book for their birthday & Valentine's while you're at it?)
This sale runs through January 1st & includes preorders!
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Got a bookworm significant other?
Stuff an FC2 title or two in their stocking!
(& why not get a book for their birthday & Valentine's while you're at it?)
This sale runs through January 1st & includes preorders!
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
Stuff an FC2 title or two in their stocking!
(& why not get a book for their birthday & Valentine's while you're at it?)
This sale runs through January 1st & includes preorders!
www.uapress.ua.edu/search-resul...
Delighted to write about my favorite movie and spread the bisexual vampire agenda 🐍
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
"I love Mr. Flint's hole. It’s rather fascinating.” @avadevries.bsky.social checks out the bisexual vamps and uptight Brits in the wackadoo folk horror flick THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM, @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social.
www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...
www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom
Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm on Horror Homeroom
www.horrorhomeroom.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Delighted to write about my favorite movie and spread the bisexual vampire agenda 🐍
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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It is currently Black Friday.
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
ergot. logo by ergot
Logo for the ergot. literary magazine.
Original image used under GNFDL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stroma_Claviceps_purpurea.JPG
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November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It is currently Black Friday.
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.'
If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers.
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...
received my print copies of @bleatingthing.bsky.social issue four 🖤 such a lovely cover design!
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
received my print copies of @bleatingthing.bsky.social issue four 🖤 such a lovely cover design!
a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! 🐑
!! ISSUE 04 IS LIVE NOW !! Online or in print
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bleatingthingmagazine.com/current.html
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November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! 🐑
My short story "Three Parts Water" received an honorable mention in Marrow Magazine's Halloween contest, "Forgotten." The full issue, including all winning pieces and honorable mentions, is online now! 🎃
marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...
marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...
Three Parts Water – marrow magazine
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October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My short story "Three Parts Water" received an honorable mention in Marrow Magazine's Halloween contest, "Forgotten." The full issue, including all winning pieces and honorable mentions, is online now! 🎃
marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...
marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...
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FFer Read of the Day: "Only Carrion" by @avadevries.bsky.social at @crowkeys.bsky.social
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Only Carrion—Ava DeVries
The vultures have been gathering around my house again. Only three or four, for now. But more will be here soon. They will perch on my picket fence and roost on my roof until it creaks with the wei…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
FFer Read of the Day: "Only Carrion" by @avadevries.bsky.social at @crowkeys.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/28/o...
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Check out this fascinating read by
@avadevries.bsky.social on the connections between Jordan Peele's GET OUT and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC #MexicanGothic #GetOut
horrorhomeroom.com/your-body-is...
@avadevries.bsky.social on the connections between Jordan Peele's GET OUT and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC #MexicanGothic #GetOut
horrorhomeroom.com/your-body-is...
Your Body is Naught but a Vessel: Racial Fetishization and Gendered Violence in Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and Peele’s Get Out - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom
Your Body is Naught but a Vessel: Racial Fetishization and Gendered Violence in Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and Peele’s Get Out on Horror Homeroom
horrorhomeroom.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Check out this fascinating read by
@avadevries.bsky.social on the connections between Jordan Peele's GET OUT and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC #MexicanGothic #GetOut
horrorhomeroom.com/your-body-is...
@avadevries.bsky.social on the connections between Jordan Peele's GET OUT and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC #MexicanGothic #GetOut
horrorhomeroom.com/your-body-is...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
so excited to have another piece in the lovely, gothic @crowkeys.bsky.social 🖤
We have an affinity with carrion creatures. We respect them and maintain our distance, lest we be their next meal. Not too dissimilar from today’s flash...
“Only Carrion” by @avadevries.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/28/o...
“Only Carrion” by @avadevries.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/28/o...
May 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
so excited to have another piece in the lovely, gothic @crowkeys.bsky.social 🖤