Deborah L. Davitt, Author
@deborahldavitt.com
Award-winning author, science fiction, fantasy, horror; Elgin-nominated poet, Gates of Never, Bounded by Eternity, From Voyages Unreturning. www.deborahldavitt.com www.theruinwebcomic.com/
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February 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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@emmiechristie33.bsky.social continues her amazing blog, reviewing multiple stories by the same author to give people a feel for the depth and scope of an author's work. . . and maybe get them to read something they've never encountered before!
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Writer Spotlight: Dee Holloway — Emmie Christie
Welcome to the sixth installment of Writer Spotlight. This week’s focus is Dee Holloway. I’ve reviewed three of Holloway's short pieces individually that qualify for Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social continues her amazing blog, reviewing multiple stories by the same author to give people a feel for the depth and scope of an author's work. . . and maybe get them to read something they've never encountered before!
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'Tis the season to lift up poems I've nominated for awards!
(This post will have to be a series of replies. Because I've got a LIST, folks!)
Gretchen Tessmer, “The Blight Sky,” which is dark, horrific, and deeply moving! Star*Line, Issue 48.2, April 2025
(This post will have to be a series of replies. Because I've got a LIST, folks!)
Gretchen Tessmer, “The Blight Sky,” which is dark, horrific, and deeply moving! Star*Line, Issue 48.2, April 2025
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
'Tis the season to lift up poems I've nominated for awards!
(This post will have to be a series of replies. Because I've got a LIST, folks!)
Gretchen Tessmer, “The Blight Sky,” which is dark, horrific, and deeply moving! Star*Line, Issue 48.2, April 2025
(This post will have to be a series of replies. Because I've got a LIST, folks!)
Gretchen Tessmer, “The Blight Sky,” which is dark, horrific, and deeply moving! Star*Line, Issue 48.2, April 2025
Soooooo. I will be doing a poetry reading on March 1, from 7-8:15 PM EST.
Tickets are available for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...
Anyone got any favorites they'd like me to add to my lineup? LOL
Tickets are available for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...
Anyone got any favorites they'd like me to add to my lineup? LOL
STARBURST! Speculative Poetry Readings for Women’s History Month
The Speculative Sundays Reading Series returns in 2026 with StarBurst, presenting speculative poets every Sunday in Women’s History Month
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February 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Soooooo. I will be doing a poetry reading on March 1, from 7-8:15 PM EST.
Tickets are available for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...
Anyone got any favorites they'd like me to add to my lineup? LOL
Tickets are available for free on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...
Anyone got any favorites they'd like me to add to my lineup? LOL
So, partially, I was awake all night because sick, and partially, my own fault, because Inkle, the makers of Heaven's Vault, which is in my list of top 3 games ever, came out with a little 7 dollar game earlier this year, and it's been sitting in my library, and god. damn. they've done it again.
January 28, 2026 at 3:59 PM
So, partially, I was awake all night because sick, and partially, my own fault, because Inkle, the makers of Heaven's Vault, which is in my list of top 3 games ever, came out with a little 7 dollar game earlier this year, and it's been sitting in my library, and god. damn. they've done it again.
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Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!
OOOOH. This is a first! I am ON THIS LIST!
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So. . . if you're a member, maybe you could like, read "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise" and consider voting for it?
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So. . . if you're a member, maybe you could like, read "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise" and consider voting for it?
Vote for the BSFA Awards
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January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
OOOOH. This is a first! I am ON THIS LIST!
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So. . . if you're a member, maybe you could like, read "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise" and consider voting for it?
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So. . . if you're a member, maybe you could like, read "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise" and consider voting for it?
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We would just like to casually point out that the @sfwa.org Recommended Reading List currently contains Hell Itself stories by @rachiea.bsky.social, @crboltz.bsky.social, @deborahldavitt.com, @reggiekwok.bsky.social, @gerrileen.bsky.social, @tedmorrissey.bsky.social, @ktwagner.bsky.social, and more!
The Reading List - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Full Searchable List of Recommended Works Recommend a Work Welcome to the New Recommended Reading List! We’re proud to open […]
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January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
We would just like to casually point out that the @sfwa.org Recommended Reading List currently contains Hell Itself stories by @rachiea.bsky.social, @crboltz.bsky.social, @deborahldavitt.com, @reggiekwok.bsky.social, @gerrileen.bsky.social, @tedmorrissey.bsky.social, @ktwagner.bsky.social, and more!
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social is a lovely writer, who reads with sensitivity and depth--and she's started a blog with in-depth readings of other people's short fiction. <3 Her first entry is a study of 14 of @rkduncan.bsky.social 's stories: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
Check it out!
Check it out!
Writer Spotlight: R.K. Duncan — Emmie Christie
I’m so excited to kick things off with my first installment of Writer Spotlight with R.K. Duncan ! I’ve reviewed 14 of Duncan’s short pieces, 13 individually on Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In ...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social is a lovely writer, who reads with sensitivity and depth--and she's started a blog with in-depth readings of other people's short fiction. <3 Her first entry is a study of 14 of @rkduncan.bsky.social 's stories: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
Check it out!
Check it out!
Oh! I made the Tangent Recommended Reading List this year with "Mountain at the Heart of the Labyrinth"!
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Really delighted by this!
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Really delighted by this!
Tangent Online 2025 Recommended Reading List - Tangent Online
Tangent Online 2025 Recommended Reading List SFWA/SF Magazines: Selling Freedom of Expression for Thirty Pieces of Silver “Free speech is a human right. It is the free expression of thought that is the essence of being human...it is the natural condition of humans to speak. It is compelled silence or agreement that is unnatural. That
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January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Oh! I made the Tangent Recommended Reading List this year with "Mountain at the Heart of the Labyrinth"!
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Really delighted by this!
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Really delighted by this!
. . . okay, given that today is December 31, this is *really* my final publication of 2025, lol:
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SpecPoVerse | PDF to Flipbook
Volume 1, Issue 3. PDF to flipbook converted using heyzine.com
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December 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
. . . okay, given that today is December 31, this is *really* my final publication of 2025, lol:
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Year in review: Publications wise? Stellar! 18 new short stories, 5 reprints, and 26 poems (not counting the new ones in a poetry collection, To Love Unquietly). I’ve met my long-term goal of being able to say “over a hundred short stories published.” I wrote a new poetry collection.
BUT . . .
BUT . . .
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Year in review: Publications wise? Stellar! 18 new short stories, 5 reprints, and 26 poems (not counting the new ones in a poetry collection, To Love Unquietly). I’ve met my long-term goal of being able to say “over a hundred short stories published.” I wrote a new poetry collection.
BUT . . .
BUT . . .
"Words Written in Water," a haunting tale, should be my last publication of 2025! You can find it at Wyldblood:
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December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Words Written in Water," a haunting tale, should be my last publication of 2025! You can find it at Wyldblood:
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wyldblood.com/product/wyld...
Possibly my last publication of 2025 went live at Penumbric yesterday! This is a very dark poem: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Penumbric December 2k25, Come and Play
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
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December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Possibly my last publication of 2025 went live at Penumbric yesterday! This is a very dark poem: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Thrilled to be able to say that Hell Itself Magazine has nominated my story, "Reaping Whirlwinds," for a Pushcart Prize!
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So much love!
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So much love!
Reaping Whirlwinds – Hell Itself
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November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thrilled to be able to say that Hell Itself Magazine has nominated my story, "Reaping Whirlwinds," for a Pushcart Prize!
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So much love!
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So much love!
And here's my list of 2025 poems, including my full collection, "To Love Unquietly" !
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And here's my list of 2025 poems, including my full collection, "To Love Unquietly" !
Awards eligibility time! 16 stories published for the first time this year, and I'd really like to encourage people to check out my novella, "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise," if you have time!
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Awards eligibility time! 16 stories published for the first time this year, and I'd really like to encourage people to check out my novella, "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise," if you have time!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4 New story out today! I believe I'm even the first story in the anthology with "The Girl with No Name."
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Amazon.com: Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) eBook : Fomley, Eric: Kindle Store
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4 New story out today! I believe I'm even the first story in the anthology with "The Girl with No Name."
Happy to announce that I'll have a story in a new Flame Tree anthology soon! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Romantic Fantasy | Contents Announcement | Of Love & Dragons
We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for one of the first two titles in our new Romantic Fantasy series: Of Love & Dragons!
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November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy to announce that I'll have a story in a new Flame Tree anthology soon! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Absolutely delighted to share my Halloween story with you all!
Happy Halloween from Hell Itself!
In honor of the day, we've got "The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu" by @deborahldavitt.com!
In honor of the day, we've got "The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu" by @deborahldavitt.com!
The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu – Hell Itself
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October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Absolutely delighted to share my Halloween story with you all!
Love The Daily Tomorrow. Go check out my new story live with them starting today!
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Love The Daily Tomorrow. Go check out my new story live with them starting today!
New poetry live today at @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New poetry live today at @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...