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Bendi Barrett

@bendibarrett.bsky.social
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spec fic writer, sfwa member, assistant editor @ baffling mag, queer weirdo, etc. (he/him)

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
hey @bendibarrett.bsky.social 🎙️ what does “gossip” mean to you?
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Pssst have you heard? @bafflingmag.bsky.social is doing a Gossip issue? Mmhmm. That's right. Well, you didn't hear it from me, but if you submit, you should put a little piece of harmless gossip in your cover letter. No names, of course. Again,you didn't hear this from me. I'd never say a word.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
We weren't fucking around with this one, y'all
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Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This afternoon!
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Kelly @khooliha.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Book 92: really enjoyed this novella! Sex magic AND a ravenous manifestation of a thing living in a sun showing up and bothering somebody?! I'd read more of this world and story, but sometimes it's the purpose of a novella to leave you hungry.
Cover of Empire of the Feast by Bendi Barrett
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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
my FUCKING GOD I was going to take my time with this roll-out, however, a bitch needs to go to urgent care !! in place of itch, we have two new store fronts to support me directly: digital works: payhip.com/ladz signed copies (US only for now): ladz-merch.square.site/shop/books/I...
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My loves, if the market you're submitting to caps word count, please don't submit something that's twice as long. We'll both end up heartbroken. 🥺
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
HAPPY PRIDE, Y'ALL 🌈 🥹😤
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Shoutout to the guy on the street corner raving "you're an abomination" at the intersection of the queer health clinic... in boot cut jeans with a 2006 blink-182 haircut. Glass houses, bro.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Any day that someone mentions me in the same breath as the effortlessly formidable @haileypiperfights.bsky.social it's a good day.
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚
Book cover for The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread edited by Dave Ring‬ (Neon Hemlock‬), where the moon and trees are drawn within a frame so the whole suggests a skull. Contributors include Sage Agee‬, Bendi Barrett‬, Winifred Burton‬, Amelia Burton, Jess Cho, Lyndall Clipstone‬, Donyae Coles, Dare Segun Falowo, Caro Jansen, Yeonsoo Kim, Marianne Kirby‬, M.L. Krishnan‬, Jes Malitoris‬, Chris McCartney, KC Mead-Brewer‬, Suzan Palumbo‬, Hailey Piper‬, E. Saxey‬, Jordan Shiveley‬, Caitlin Starling‬, Natalia Theodoridou‬, v.f. Thompson, E. Catherine Tobler‬, Shaoni C. White, Cynthia Zhang‬, and Tina Zhu‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-crawling-moon
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.
An advance copy of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity ed. by Lee Mandelo on a white mantle alongside a prismatic rainbow wash.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Help us punch (also smooch, maybe????) some giant monsters!
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Stoked about all the metallic fisticuffs and nuclear breath weapons we're about to read.
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Baffling Magazine @bafflingmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We'll be open soon for submissions of queer speculative SFF. Stand by for some thoughts on the Mecha vs. Kaiju call by Associate Editor D. A. Vorobyov, who'll be editing this particular theme issue. More info: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Open to submissions June 1-15.

Baffling.

Unthemed. 
Mecha vs Kaiju.
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Tagging contributors to spread the word! 💜 @sentencebender.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @bendibarrett.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social @megelison.bsky.social @katharineduckett.bsky.social @itsneonyang.bsky.social!
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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
ICYMI! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book with some pretty amazing people, and I can't wait for you all to enjoy it!!!
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My story for this is so weird. 🫣
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The best training I ever got was doing writing sprints with my mentor in high school. He'd assign me a prompt and time me; I'd just write. It became second nature to be limber enough to live in a new idea on the fly. And it broke me out of the habit of being precious about ideas.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Dom/sub is OVER. Start writing sub/sub. Or are you a spineless coward??
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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Stories are allowed to resolve with failure. Characters are allowed to do wrong. Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lovely to see EMPIRE OF THE FEAST by @bendibarrett.bsky.social on this rad list (alongside a few other favs ✨) (cheers to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for the rec) reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Black Speculative Books - Reactor
Here are a few titles that deserve to be on your TBR
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/01/2025
Need to make some fucked up art so I can at least filter out the people who think they can divine morality through somebody's creative output
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DNTLZ @dntlz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I hope this cover art by yours truly may be the last piece of art you see this year 🍆🐙
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Some real all-stars in this one, folks! Auspiciously, it was the first issue I read for. Destiny!
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Make jiggle physics for fat stomachs too, you fucking cowards.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Sentences you never imagine yourself saying until you say them: "Oh my God, these fucking baseboards. What the fuck is happening here, dude?"
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Random quotes from my partner: "... I wish Daft Punk had a Christmas album."
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Baffling Magazine is open for submissions, fam! Cool stuff is already flooding our shores, so join the party. Check sub guidelines here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions and I look forward to reading your work! (we're looking for work under 1,200 words, but would love more 500 word submissions!)
Abstract image as a background with Neon Hemlock's logo at the top of the image and the Baffling Magazine logo at center. The image reads: "Open to Submissions: Dec[ember] 1-15" and the themes are: 'unthemed' and 'strange forms'
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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 30/11/2024
If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.
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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My boy Bendi can write his ass off and this book is just fucking excellent. Its like a gay porno smashed into Warhammer 40k but if a demented Hozier was choreographing the sex scenes. If this sounds batshit in the best way—it absolutely is
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Hannah @venneh.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Think Caligula plus this gif and more fluids, and everyone makes the worst possible choices, and you’ve got the vibe.
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a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor
ALT: a group of people are gathered in a living room with a fire coming out of the floor
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just spilled homemade vanilla extract all over my kitchen counter. So, oh no! But also, it smells so good 😭
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just (FINALLY) bought a copy for myself and one for another queer nerd in my life. I can't wait for this book to arrive! And there's a sale right now! What are you waiting for!? www.hachettebookgroup.com
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hiya, Some of you have followed me! It occurs to me that you might have very little idea who I am. Here's a novella I wrote: Empire of the Feast. It's a little weird, a little horny, queer (natch!) and it's got big space-opera vibes. What's not to love? www.neonhemlock.com/books/empire...
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Empire of the Feast by Bendi Barrett — neon hemlock
Publication date: Fall 2922. An 8” x 5” novella. 98 pages. Has very NSFW interior cover illustrations. 🖤 Ebook version is here . In Empire of the Feast , we awaken with Riverson, 32nd ruler of...
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Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today is the LAST DAY to grab the "Never Too Old to Save the World" #StoryBundle 👀👀👀 Ten books. Older protagonists. An amazing deal. Plus support for Girls Write Now. Come on, add to your TBR, I know you want to. Any boosting appreciated for this final day of bundle! storybundle.com/nevertooold
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.
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Collective Survival, Adaption and Direct Action
Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I struggle so hard with doing social media correctly, so: Hi to people who've followed me here! Welcome! Also, you know what's so good? Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle". Just heard it at brunch and woof. Really holds up. Also, "Lovefool" by the Cardigans. Top tier. Anyway, <3 you. Bye!
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Everyone involved in this was brilliant, btw. Such a good time. Did you know writers are frequently hilarious? Because they ARE!
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 20/04/2024
This panel ROCKED, thank you @bendibarrett.bsky.social, @andreagstewart.bsky.social, and Sienna Tristen. We could have talked for hours -- what a juicy, chewy topic Godpunk is! Thanks @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and @canconsffh.bsky.social !!!
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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
BEHOLD! GODPUNK, IN ALL ITS GLORY! Another of the fantastic panels coming up THIS SATURDAY at Can*Con Virtual, featuring @bendibarrett.bsky.social, @andreagstewart.bsky.social, Sienna Tristen, and moderated by the great @kellyrobson.com!! DO NOT MISS!!
A banner advertising the 'Godpunk, in all Its Glory' panel at Can*Con Virtual April 20th.  It has pictures of panelists Bendi Barrett, Andrea Stewart, and Sienna Tristen, along with moderator Kelly Robson.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 12/04/2024
I'm extremely pleased to be the editor of the inaugural AFTERLIVES anthology because it gave me the opportunity to showcase some truly stupendous work from eighteen brilliant writers. The full TOC is 👇🏾 and the authors whose incredible work we are proud to feature are: <drumroll>
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 12/04/2024
full ToC on Psychopomp, but shout out all these great authors we'll be working with: @bendibarrett.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social @osahon4545.bsky.social @jtewwrites.bsky.social @jawmccarthy.bsky.social @sydneyficant137.bsky.social @gabbyharry.bsky.social
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
This is your one-week-left countdown reminder: open submissions for ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ end on October 15th!! Get your stories in, pals. Further details here 👇👇 www.erewhonbooks.com/amplitudes-s...
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
@brentclambert.bsky.social I finally accepted your invite to the party. I fully apologize for being such a mess and ENORMOUS congrats on your book now being in the world! Look at these beauties next to each other! 💚
Covers of 'Empire of the Feast' by Bendi Barrett and 'A Necessary Chaos' by Brent Lambert.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Let’s all welcome @bendibarrett.bsky.social to the skyline!
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Bendi Barrett @bendibarrett.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
I have arrived. Expect me to become fully unhinged shortly.
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