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
icon:@liuet.bsky.social
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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✨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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As we near the closing of November and the start of winter (for Northern Hemisphere)...
Settle down with your child or yourself with a cuppa and blankets.
scarletferret.com/books/sun-dr...
(for Southern Hem - it's summer, grab a tall cold glass of your favourite beverage!)
Settle down with your child or yourself with a cuppa and blankets.
scarletferret.com/books/sun-dr...
(for Southern Hem - it's summer, grab a tall cold glass of your favourite beverage!)
Sun Dragon's Song by Joyce Chng - Scarlet Ferret
More than anything, young Ho Yi wishes to become a Sun Dragon Rider, the courageous human guardians of the magnificent beasts that roam the sky and keep watch over the land.
scarletferret.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
As we near the closing of November and the start of winter (for Northern Hemisphere)...
Settle down with your child or yourself with a cuppa and blankets.
scarletferret.com/books/sun-dr...
(for Southern Hem - it's summer, grab a tall cold glass of your favourite beverage!)
Settle down with your child or yourself with a cuppa and blankets.
scarletferret.com/books/sun-dr...
(for Southern Hem - it's summer, grab a tall cold glass of your favourite beverage!)
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It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it...
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
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 💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it...
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
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it's always dog o'clock somewhere
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
it's always dog o'clock somewhere
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be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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It's day two of our big 25% off sale!
Get the journal lover in your life (or yourself) one of our custom designed & brightly colored planner organizers!
http://thebrokencirc...
Get the journal lover in your life (or yourself) one of our custom designed & brightly colored planner organizers!
http://thebrokencirc...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's day two of our big 25% off sale!
Get the journal lover in your life (or yourself) one of our custom designed & brightly colored planner organizers!
http://thebrokencirc...
Get the journal lover in your life (or yourself) one of our custom designed & brightly colored planner organizers!
http://thebrokencirc...
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timeline cleanse
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
timeline cleanse
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The bidding starts at just £10 (including international shipping)! :)
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The bidding starts at just £10 (including international shipping)! :)
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Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
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Just finished this exquisite smoky rainbow pride dragon tamer choker! 🐉🏳️🌈 Check it out at Varanid Paradise 🦎💎
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
Smoky Rainbow Pride Dragon Tamer Choker — Varanid Paradise Reptilian Atelier
This exquisite dragon scale choker brings an autumnal and agender vibe to the classic rainbow pride color scheme with elegant smoky satins, metallics, and polychromes. Fine Czech glass adorned by Japa...
www.varanidparadise.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just finished this exquisite smoky rainbow pride dragon tamer choker! 🐉🏳️🌈 Check it out at Varanid Paradise 🦎💎
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/2969d...
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If you like my Jewish Bisclavret retelling "Nose" you'll love my collection!
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you like my Jewish Bisclavret retelling "Nose" you'll love my collection!
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
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The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
Do you have a specific date for opening back up for submissions in 2026? If you care to share...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times:
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
April 19-25
July 19-25
October 18-24
I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.
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Looking for a new Arthurian read?
The last piece in my collection, the timeloop novella "All the Ways We Drown" is perfect for anyone who's ever been annoyed by Lancelot
AKA "Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic take matters into their own hands"
The last piece in my collection, the timeloop novella "All the Ways We Drown" is perfect for anyone who's ever been annoyed by Lancelot
AKA "Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic take matters into their own hands"
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Looking for a new Arthurian read?
The last piece in my collection, the timeloop novella "All the Ways We Drown" is perfect for anyone who's ever been annoyed by Lancelot
AKA "Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic take matters into their own hands"
The last piece in my collection, the timeloop novella "All the Ways We Drown" is perfect for anyone who's ever been annoyed by Lancelot
AKA "Elaine of Astolat and Elaine of Corbenic take matters into their own hands"
If you like my Jewish Bisclavret retelling "Nose" you'll love my collection!
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you like my Jewish Bisclavret retelling "Nose" you'll love my collection!
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
strangehorizons.com/poetry/nose/
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Pez is an absolutete fucking delight and I wish I had enough money to dig her out. Come dig with me, if you can?
You know how you have that friend who just cannot catch a break right now and you really wish you could do just about anything for them? Yeah, that's currently one of my best friends. So once again sharing, because this week has been shit: gofund.me/50a9b0fa1
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
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Pez is an absolutete fucking delight and I wish I had enough money to dig her out. Come dig with me, if you can?
Sara's stuff is MAGIC and you need some!
ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sara's stuff is MAGIC and you need some!
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I made him. A very smol hat 😂🥹
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I made him. A very smol hat 😂🥹
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
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who could have guess it's once again dog o'clock
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
who could have guess it's once again dog o'clock
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It’s been two days since we opened and we have 80+ submissions! Thank you for sending us so much great work! Please don’t be discouraged by a fast response: with so many submissions and so few slots, we’ve already had to decline many wonderful stories.
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It’s been two days since we opened and we have 80+ submissions! Thank you for sending us so much great work! Please don’t be discouraged by a fast response: with so many submissions and so few slots, we’ve already had to decline many wonderful stories.
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
P.S. We would LOVE to see more nonfiction! 💜
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We Global South women, women of colour etc have the right to write in any genre we choose. It's not all necessarily torture porn about how "oppressed" we are for your consumption nor are we required to write "revolutionary" writing based on your limited understanding of revolution or autonomy.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We Global South women, women of colour etc have the right to write in any genre we choose. It's not all necessarily torture porn about how "oppressed" we are for your consumption nor are we required to write "revolutionary" writing based on your limited understanding of revolution or autonomy.
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Just a reminder that I wrote a book and you absolutely should not read it if you hate chonky first books of multi-volume fantasy series with ornate and byzantine world-building with mostly Asian/Global-South coded characters.
An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just a reminder that I wrote a book and you absolutely should not read it if you hate chonky first books of multi-volume fantasy series with ornate and byzantine world-building with mostly Asian/Global-South coded characters.
It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it...
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
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 💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's bad enough discovering your fiancé is a cursed prince, but then someone writes a magical musical about it...
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
In Curses & Curtains, musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture, and I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals.
timeline cleanse
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
timeline cleanse