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Ava DeVries

@avadevries.bsky.social
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she/her 🌈 words at www.avadevries.com fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social

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Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Submissions have now CLOSED! . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ subs for our Issue 04: “Is it better to speak or to die?” have officially closed! We thank everyone for their contributions and can’t wait to read your words! stay tuned for updates and announcements in the coming weeks! 🌱༄.°💕
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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This talk was soooo good, y'all. What a pleasure & privilege to chair this panel. Both speakers were so smart & had such beautiful presentations & I can't stop thinking about this work. 🖤
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m a couple weeks late, but the gorgeous inaugural issue of @golgonoozamag.bsky.social is out now, featuring my most recent micro-fiction/prose poetry piece “Hooks” 🖤 golgonoozacollective.com/issue01/hooks
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Hooks | Issue 01 | Golgonooza Magazine
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows an eldritch god, a skeletal possum like creature with large antlers, saying "I AM AS OLD AS THE FOREST ITSELF". 
Panel two shows a stick figure saying, "But you must have been a baby at some point?"
Panel three shows the eldritch god saying "Well. Yes."
Panel four shows a tiny eldritch baby sitting on a rock, his antlers just little twigs.
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Had so much fun raving about my MA research on gender and folk (eco-)horror at #MoreTerrors2026 from Romancing the Gothic. Looking forward to hearing more talks on day two!
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
There is still time to get tickets to this weekend's series of events! Talks, panels, author visits from @caitlinstarling.com @cmrosens.com and @mkhardywrites.com, writing workshops and more! Find out about tickets and timetables here. buytickets.at/romancingthe...
RTG Annual Conference - More Terrors than her reason could justify: celebrating 200 years of ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications
Panels, writing workshops, author roundtable
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are you interested in Ann Radcliffe? Women in Gothic and Horror? Trans horror? Writing workshops with amazing people? You can get it all for one online event. Come to as much or as little as you like! 22nd and 23rd August www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993974113...
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'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference
On 22nd and 23rd August we celebrate 200 years of Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications and marginalised genders in the Gothic!
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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Turning of the Screw is one of those stories where it doesn't matter how many times I read it, I will still have no idea what actually happened. But that's kind of the point!
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Moonday Mag Issue 11 is out in print and digital now, where you can read my lumpy flash piece “We Do Not Believe in Ghosts” 🦷 moondaymag.com/moonday-mag-...
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
FFer Read of the Day: "Flesh Would Melt" by @anjbaker.bsky.social in @bleatingthing.bsky.social www.bleatingthingmag.com/issue-04
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ISSUE 04 - Bleating Thing Magazine
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Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Submissions are now open for our winter issue, and this time it’s themed! “Is it better to speak or to die?” Give us your misunderstood, your haunted, and your yearning. We want it all! We can’t wait to see what you create! Check out our website linked in our bio for more information!
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
And for our last entry, it's @avadevries.bsky.social! END/
Ava DeVries

The stories I love to read: Horror-tinged sci-fi, dark slipstream, stories with little to no dialogue, post-apocalyptic and apocalyptic narratives, uncanny nonhuman characters, and weird fiction.

What I wish I saw in the reading queue: More of the above!

Bio: Ava DeVries is a writer and editor from Olympia, WA. She has an MA in English from Western Washington University, where she also received her bachelor's in Creative Writing. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Tales to Terrify, ergot., and other venues. She is also the Fiction Editor at Beneath the Garden Magazine. You can find more of her work on avadevries.com.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This month, in honor of pride, we're going to be reposting stories from some of the LGBTQ authors that published work on the site. Today's piece: 'Pulling the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social which was first published on 21NOV2026 www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This month, in honor of pride, we're going to be reposting stories from some of the LGBTQ authors that published work on the site. Today's piece: 'No Love Can Keep You Kept' by Palimrya Cannonglass @wyrm.ing which was first published on 09JAN2026 www.ergot.press/authors/Pali...
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This month, in honor of pride, we're going to be reposting stories from some of the LGBTQ authors that published work on the site. Today's piece: 'GOUGER' by Perry Ruhland which was first published on 09MAY2025 www.ergot.press/authors/Perr...
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🧵🧵🧵 ALERT! FF re-opens to submissions on July 1st and so, between now and then, I'll be sharing updates from members of the reading team on the stories they love and what they wish they saw more of in the reading queue. So, read on to find out what's on the wishlist! 1/
Fusion Fragment Reading Team Wishlist
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Emma Kent-Abate 🌱 @emabate.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have a story shaped thing out in @btgardenmag.bsky.social today. It’s inspired by an 18th century Irish poem, “Cúirt an Mheán Oíche,” and the anxiety of driving in New England winters. Thank you to the wonderful editors for seeing something in my approach to the aisling !
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s here!!
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thanks for sharing! 🖤
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Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🎉.✦ ݁˖ It’s our birthday! Thank you for tending this garden with us and sticking around through our various phases. We’ve gone through some changes & we appreciate everyone that has grown with us over these past 3 years! We can’t wait to share what we’ve been growing in the garden with you! ✶⋆.˚🎉
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
issue four of the wonderfully wormy @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social includes “Slipskin,” a flash piece very near and dear to my heart (first appeared in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social) www.wirewormmagazine.com/slipskin.html
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Slipskin
Something that is not my wife is baking oatmeal raisin cookies. It wears her clothes and it wears her face but this something is not my wife. It is puttering about the kitchen, whistling a lullaby my....
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Issue 33 of Hunger Mountain is out today, including my flash piece “Sweatheart” 🖤 hngrmtn.org/issues/hngr-...
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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts
Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts
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Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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!!
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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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)
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
submit your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work! guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
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Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
❄️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!
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Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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a thread of my 2025 publications!
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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...
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Delighted to write about my favorite movie and spread the bisexual vampire agenda 🐍 @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
submit to Issue Three!! We want to read your words!! beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
submit to Issue Three!! We want to read your words!! beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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...
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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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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
received my print copies of @bleatingthing.bsky.social issue four 🖤 such a lovely cover design!
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! 🐑
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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-...
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Three Parts Water – marrow magazine
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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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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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Horror Homeroom @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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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
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Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You have been gathering around the link again. Click it. crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/28/o...
An excerpt from flash fiction, Only Carrion by Ava DeVries published on crowcrosskeys.com, presented on a muted greyscale banner featuring the profile of a vulture, leering. The excerpt reads: 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 weight of them.
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Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
so excited to have another piece in the lovely, gothic @crowkeys.bsky.social 🖤
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