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Ava DeVries

@avadevries.bsky.social

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

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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts

Issue 33 of Hunger Mountain is out today, including my flash piece β€œSweatheart” πŸ–€
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01.02.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!!

15.01.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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)

18.12.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

submit your fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work!

guidelines can be found on our website: beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions

23.12.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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❄️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!

23.12.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Finally, I have three acceptances lined up for 2026 β€” including an audio adaptation of β€œThree Parts Water” by @talestoterrify.bsky.social!

17.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm - Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom Snakes and Strap-Ons: Queer Subtext in Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm on Horror Homeroom

I also had two essays published with Horror Homeroom β€” one about race and gender in Mexican Gothic and Get Out, and another on the queerness of Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm

www.horrorhomeroom.com/snakes-and-s...

www.horrorhomeroom.com/your-body-is...

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β€œEven the Moonlight; or, Twenty-One Scenes After Death,” another flash piece, appeared in Issue Four of @bleatingthing.bsky.social

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17.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThree Parts Water,” a story of mold and mothers, received an honorable mention in Marrow Magazine’s β€œForgotten” contest

marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...

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β€œOnly Carrion,” a gothic flash piece originally published in print by The Ghastling, appeared online in @crowkeys.bsky.social

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17.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

a thread of my 2025 publications!

17.12.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!
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12.12.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted to write about my favorite movie and spread the bisexual vampire agenda 🐍
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social

15.12.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

submit to Issue Three!! We want to read your words!!

beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions

03.12.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

submit to Issue Three!! We want to read your words!!

beneaththegardenmag.squarespace.com/submissions

03.12.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ergot. logo by ergot Logo for the ergot. literary magazine. Original image used under GNFDL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stroma_Claviceps_purpurea.JPG

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...

28.11.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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received my print copies of @bleatingthing.bsky.social issue four πŸ–€ such a lovely cover design!

21.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! πŸ‘

07.11.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Three Parts Water – marrow magazine

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! πŸŽƒ
marrowmagazine.com/three-parts-...

31.10.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only Carrionβ€”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…

FFer Read of the Day: "Only Carrion" by @avadevries.bsky.social at @crowkeys.bsky.social

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13.10.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing!! πŸ₯©

13.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, also awesome cover!!

03.09.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would sell my soul for someone to make this happen

18.07.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

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...

18.06.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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.

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.

You have been gathering around the link again. Click it.

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28.05.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

so excited to have another piece in the lovely, gothic @crowkeys.bsky.social πŸ–€

28.05.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0