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@devzmiller.bsky.social

Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd. devzmiller.com

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An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Softly lift the tools of your secret witching.
Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale
scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent.
Answer no questions. 


The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads: Softly lift the tools of your secret witching. Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent. Answer no questions. The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

๐Ÿ‘€Poetry Highlight๐Ÿ‘€

ICYMI, the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by @devzmiller.bsky.social is free to read!

Join the birds and cast your spells in this sapphic poem about witchy crows from our March issue!

Poem:
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Issue:
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16.09.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New story day! Have a little bite of weird circus fiction to enliven your Monday.

18.08.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Y'all look Macey has a book!! I'm so excited for everyone to get to read it!! I have already read it and it is a DELIGHT! It's got many bones. More than the average book's share of bones. Bones and shenanigans. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฆด

14.08.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations #VP2025! VP was exactly what I was hoping it would be and more, I bet it'll be the same for you.

And may you have weather as nice as we did last year.

01.07.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š

18.03.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, glad you enjoyed! ๐Ÿ’š

18.03.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi friends, I have a poem out in Haven Spec! Did you know there is a poetry form called a sapphic? (I got very excited about writing sapphic sapphics when I learned this.) This poem is a sapphic about witchy crows (also pretty sapphic subject matter tbh).

www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...

18.03.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

oh gosh what is time - hugo noms close tomorrow!!! if you have space on your ballot for this year's special Poetry Hugo, please consider 'pockets full of stones' for nomination?

this little poem means a lot to me, & I'm very proud of it โ˜บ๏ธ

๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿš€

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pock...

13.03.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy Sunday would you like a super goth birth poem because I made one for you and it's out now in Baubles From Bones! www.baublesfrombones.com/trick-of-the...

09.03.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads:

Softly lift the tools of your secret witching.
Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale
scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent.
Answer no questions. 


The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

An excerpt of the poem "Dawn Witching with Crows" by Devin Miller, slated for Haven Spec Magazine, Issue 19, March 2025. The text reads: Softly lift the tools of your secret witching. Make no noise your mothers will hear, no telltale scrape of knife on stone; keep your setup silent. Answer no questions. The background is the issue's cover art, titled Daydreamer, by Abi Stevens Art.

Our Kickstarter campaign ends Friday, so here's a teaser for some of the amazing content we'll have in 2025!

"Dawn Witching with Crows" is a poem by @devzmiller.bsky.social that you can read in our March issue!

Subscribe through our Kickstarter to get it!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

03.03.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yessss excellent

03.03.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
on a blurred background lies a text box with an image of a hand rising from thick water under a starry sky. there is a quote, it reads: "what slid from my body into lake-water / and was drowned by wonder? / the trick of the necromancer's womb / is to grow things both  living and dead" this quote comes from "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by Deving Miller, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.

on a blurred background lies a text box with an image of a hand rising from thick water under a starry sky. there is a quote, it reads: "what slid from my body into lake-water / and was drowned by wonder? / the trick of the necromancer's womb / is to grow things both living and dead" this quote comes from "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by Deving Miller, appearing in Issue 4 of Baubles From Bones.

โœจPoetry spotlight!โœจ

Life and death, embraced in the unknown lakeside, love what comes from it regardless

You can read "the trick of the necromancer's womb" by @devzmiller.bsky.social coming soon in Baubles From Bones Issue 4!

#poetry #sff #smallpress #indiepublishing

22.02.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

feeling very seen by "sexy sapphic mushroom witch love poem" tbh. my brand in a nutshell

15.02.2025 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the poems is mine! ๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿง™ Haven Spec does cool stuff, y'all should have a look at their Kickstarter.

31.01.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dialogue. I was real good at making my fanfic dialogue sound like something you'd really hear in that TV character's voice and now I'm just generally good at making my characters talk like people.

10.01.2025 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Newsletter โ€” Devin Miller

Happy Monday, friends! I'm starting a newsletter!

Subscribe if you wanna hear about it when I publish something and occasionally get a lil essay about me debugging my writing process.

www.devzmiller.com/newsletter

06.01.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that's been there for years; I cannot explain it to you ๐Ÿ˜‚ not usually wearing antlers though

24.12.2024 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Woken up thirty seconds before the alarm clock by the cat tongue on face alarm.

At least she was only thirty seconds impatient.

18.12.2024 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A grey cat is curled up on a giant pile of pillows and a duvet on top of a chair. She is staring at the camera. The whole thing has Princess and the Pea vibes.

A grey cat is curled up on a giant pile of pillows and a duvet on top of a chair. She is staring at the camera. The whole thing has Princess and the Pea vibes.

Your night would probably be improved by looking at my cat be a princess, wouldn't it

17.12.2024 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd be delighted if you read any of these, to nominate them for awards or not. It's such a joy when my strange ideas and stubbornly hopeful characters get to build a connection between me and the world.

16.12.2024 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
DP FICTION #117A: โ€œSong for a Star-Whaleโ€™s Ghostโ€ by Devin Miller โ€“ Diabolical Plots

"Song for a Star-Whaleโ€™s Ghost" is about singing space shanties to your whale ship and heisting for the good of her grandchildren. And about the cost of lowering your expectations.

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

16.12.2024 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Introducing the June 2024 Issue of Worlds of Possibility This issue contains seven stories, three poems, three original illustrations, and two reprint illustrations.

"Lessons From My Road Trip With a Sea-wife" does what it says on the tin: a story of what it does to your car to pick up a hitchhiking sea-wife and drive her to California. And what it does to you.

www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

16.12.2024 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life by Devin Miller

"The Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Life" is a story of death adventurers, resurrectionists, and looking for what you need in the right place to get it. And necrobiomes!

www.heartlines-spec.com/the-eleventh...

16.12.2024 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Awards eligibility graphic on a background of fern leaves.

Text reads:

Devin Miller 
2024 Awards Eligibility

โ€œThe Coffee of Torcatโ€ (2,000 words) - Beneath Ceaseless Skies #404

โ€œThe Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Lifeโ€ (3,200 words) - Heartlines Spec #4

โ€œLessons From My Road Trip With a Sea-wifeโ€ (1,300 words) - Worlds of Possibility June 2024

โ€œSong for a Star-Whaleโ€™s Ghostโ€ (1,700 words) - Diabolical Plots #117

Awards eligibility graphic on a background of fern leaves. Text reads: Devin Miller 2024 Awards Eligibility โ€œThe Coffee of Torcatโ€ (2,000 words) - Beneath Ceaseless Skies #404 โ€œThe Eleventh Resurrection and the Twelfth Lifeโ€ (3,200 words) - Heartlines Spec #4 โ€œLessons From My Road Trip With a Sea-wifeโ€ (1,300 words) - Worlds of Possibility June 2024 โ€œSong for a Star-Whaleโ€™s Ghostโ€ (1,700 words) - Diabolical Plots #117

I made an awards eligibility graphic to procrastinate on writing. ๐Ÿ˜…

All short fiction, eligible for the usual. I'm most proud of the complexity of "The Coffee of Torcat." Parallel worlds, memory, loyalty to a dangerous queen. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

More links in thread!

16.12.2024 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜‚ certainly not. I've never been to the Isabela Stewart Gardiner Museum but I know enough about it to know I'll appreciate any room inspired by it

11.12.2024 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A+ interior decorating choice

11.12.2024 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ooh, goth of you, delightful

10.12.2024 23:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Oolong, a grey cat, sits on a mountain made of a duvet and pillows piled on top of a chair, looking suspicious of the photographer

Oolong, a grey cat, sits on a mountain made of a duvet and pillows piled on top of a chair, looking suspicious of the photographer

Princess Oolong and the Pea for you

10.12.2024 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay but now you have to show us your gallery wall of haunted-looking women

10.12.2024 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜‚ I'm pretty cool, it's true

10.12.2024 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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