Danielle Barr
@daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social
Literary fiction author/Driftwood Press short story winner/The Milk House/HAD/Okay Donkey/Petrichor Prize Finalist/ Rep: Iris Blasi at Arc Literary Management
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A year ago today I finished my first novel.
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
Reposted by Danielle Barr
I’ve been dying to put this description somewhere for years. Now it’s the first line of my words flash over at BULL today!
"Naked men look like frogs, pinched in at the waist with wide shoulders. Rupin undresses and I think of dissecting frogs in science, pickling formaldehyde and sharp-singed nostrils." - Danielle Barr mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’ve been dying to put this description somewhere for years. Now it’s the first line of my words flash over at BULL today!
Reposted by Danielle Barr
August Spec Flash Roundup!
With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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Flash Roundup * August 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thank you so much for including my work here, Myna! It means so much to me that you enjoyed it!
August 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank you so much for including my work here, Myna! It means so much to me that you enjoyed it!
Reposted by Danielle Barr
“Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch…? Arriving in the form of a dildo, the joke that is also the question becomes a double entendre: Can you take it?”
I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones | Defector
Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in...
defector.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch…? Arriving in the form of a dildo, the joke that is also the question becomes a double entendre: Can you take it?”
Thank you so much for reading!
August 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thank you so much for reading!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed it! Good luck with your submission. They’re really wonderful folks over there!
July 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I’m so thrilled you enjoyed it! Good luck with your submission. They’re really wonderful folks over there!
PS- She did 😭🥹
A crazy week. After notifying agents of the results of a literary contest (announcement soon!), there was a rush of requests and a (non-offer) request for a call. I have to believe my future agent already has my manuscript in their inbox 🤞🏻
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
PS- She did 😭🥹
Ah, I’m so happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for reading!
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ah, I’m so happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for reading!
Thank you so much! It is one of my favorite things I’ve written- and Steve at Okay Donkey really helped make it shine!
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Thank you so much! It is one of my favorite things I’ve written- and Steve at Okay Donkey really helped make it shine!
So proud of this zombie story about mother trauma over at Okay Donkey this week! Grateful for the chance to share it!
"...and—between you and me—the secret best thing about mamas is that they're temporary."
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus" by @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
The Way My Mother, Who Refuses to Die, Is Like A Ford Taurus by Danielle Barr
My mother died of a massive stroke, but she swears she didn’t. Dropped down dead right there at the breakfast buffet, then climbed back up to her feet—pardon me, she said to the coveralled man behi…
okaydonkeymag.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So proud of this zombie story about mother trauma over at Okay Donkey this week! Grateful for the chance to share it!
Finished novel number three today. Sent it off to my agent. Now turning off my brain for a long as possible 😮💨
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Finished novel number three today. Sent it off to my agent. Now turning off my brain for a long as possible 😮💨
😂
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
😂
Happy pride month. Don’t be a Karen.
June 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Happy pride month. Don’t be a Karen.
Ah, thank you so much! It was so much fun to write
May 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Ah, thank you so much! It was so much fun to write
If you’re interested in reading the first chapter of my latest novel, check it out at L’Esprit!
If you’re an editor and wanna see the whole thing, I hear @irisblasi.bsky.social can hook you up!
If you’re an editor and wanna see the whole thing, I hear @irisblasi.bsky.social can hook you up!
Danielle Barr's NOTHINGBERGERS is the first chapter of her new project, and a Finalist in our 2025 Leopold Bloom Prize for Innovative Narration. Find it in Issue Six!
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Nothingbergers
I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to stick the old water tower next to the graveyard–how many boil water notices had there been on account of somebody’s mawmaw leeching her corpse juices into t…
lespritliteraryreview.org
May 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you’re interested in reading the first chapter of my latest novel, check it out at L’Esprit!
If you’re an editor and wanna see the whole thing, I hear @irisblasi.bsky.social can hook you up!
If you’re an editor and wanna see the whole thing, I hear @irisblasi.bsky.social can hook you up!
Oh no, not 50%! 🙄
April 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Oh no, not 50%! 🙄
Do I..do I write absurdist literary fiction?
This is an excellent discovery.
This is an excellent discovery.
April 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Do I..do I write absurdist literary fiction?
This is an excellent discovery.
This is an excellent discovery.
The part about moving toward an almost heard conversation- yes! I can’t get over how perfectly that describes it!
April 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The part about moving toward an almost heard conversation- yes! I can’t get over how perfectly that describes it!
Thank you- and to you as well!
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Thank you- and to you as well!
A year ago today I finished my first novel.
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A year ago today I finished my first novel.
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
Today, I signed a contract with my dream literary agent. I am so excited to share that my work is now represented by @irisblasi.bsky.social of Arc Literary Management.
I can’t wait for all that is to come with her in my corner!
Reposted by Danielle Barr
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Reposted by Danielle Barr
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
Love the imagery in this one 😮💨
Little dose of apocalyptic summer to combat any lingering winter chill. This week, enjoy "NOT U NOR HIM 2 PARADISE" by Sosie Chery.
Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-25-25/para...
Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/3-25-25/para...
March 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Love the imagery in this one 😮💨