Deborah L. Davitt, Author
@deborahldavitt.com
Award-winning author, science fiction, fantasy, horror; Elgin-nominated poet, Gates of Never, Bounded by Eternity, From Voyages Unreturning. www.deborahldavitt.com www.theruinwebcomic.com/
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We would just like to casually point out that the @sfwa.org Recommended Reading List currently contains Hell Itself stories by @rachiea.bsky.social, @crboltz.bsky.social, @deborahldavitt.com, @reggiekwok.bsky.social, @gerrileen.bsky.social, @tedmorrissey.bsky.social, @ktwagner.bsky.social, and more!
The Reading List - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Full Searchable List of Recommended Works Recommend a Work Welcome to the New Recommended Reading List! We’re proud to open […]
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January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
We would just like to casually point out that the @sfwa.org Recommended Reading List currently contains Hell Itself stories by @rachiea.bsky.social, @crboltz.bsky.social, @deborahldavitt.com, @reggiekwok.bsky.social, @gerrileen.bsky.social, @tedmorrissey.bsky.social, @ktwagner.bsky.social, and more!
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social is a lovely writer, who reads with sensitivity and depth--and she's started a blog with in-depth readings of other people's short fiction. <3 Her first entry is a study of 14 of @rkduncan.bsky.social 's stories: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
Check it out!
Check it out!
Writer Spotlight: R.K. Duncan — Emmie Christie
I’m so excited to kick things off with my first installment of Writer Spotlight with R.K. Duncan ! I’ve reviewed 14 of Duncan’s short pieces, 13 individually on Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In ...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social is a lovely writer, who reads with sensitivity and depth--and she's started a blog with in-depth readings of other people's short fiction. <3 Her first entry is a study of 14 of @rkduncan.bsky.social 's stories: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...
Check it out!
Check it out!
Oh! I made the Tangent Recommended Reading List this year with "Mountain at the Heart of the Labyrinth"!
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Really delighted by this!
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Really delighted by this!
Tangent Online 2025 Recommended Reading List - Tangent Online
Tangent Online 2025 Recommended Reading List SFWA/SF Magazines: Selling Freedom of Expression for Thirty Pieces of Silver “Free speech is a human right. It is the free expression of thought that is the essence of being human...it is the natural condition of humans to speak. It is compelled silence or agreement that is unnatural. That
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January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Oh! I made the Tangent Recommended Reading List this year with "Mountain at the Heart of the Labyrinth"!
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Really delighted by this!
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Really delighted by this!
. . . okay, given that today is December 31, this is *really* my final publication of 2025, lol:
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SpecPoVerse | PDF to Flipbook
Volume 1, Issue 3. PDF to flipbook converted using heyzine.com
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December 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
. . . okay, given that today is December 31, this is *really* my final publication of 2025, lol:
heyzine.com/flip-book/85...
heyzine.com/flip-book/85...
Year in review: Publications wise? Stellar! 18 new short stories, 5 reprints, and 26 poems (not counting the new ones in a poetry collection, To Love Unquietly). I’ve met my long-term goal of being able to say “over a hundred short stories published.” I wrote a new poetry collection.
BUT . . .
BUT . . .
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Year in review: Publications wise? Stellar! 18 new short stories, 5 reprints, and 26 poems (not counting the new ones in a poetry collection, To Love Unquietly). I’ve met my long-term goal of being able to say “over a hundred short stories published.” I wrote a new poetry collection.
BUT . . .
BUT . . .
"Words Written in Water," a haunting tale, should be my last publication of 2025! You can find it at Wyldblood:
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December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Words Written in Water," a haunting tale, should be my last publication of 2025! You can find it at Wyldblood:
wyldblood.com/product/wyld...
wyldblood.com/product/wyld...
Possibly my last publication of 2025 went live at Penumbric yesterday! This is a very dark poem: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Penumbric December 2k25, Come and Play
Edgy speculative fiction magazine
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December 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Possibly my last publication of 2025 went live at Penumbric yesterday! This is a very dark poem: www.penumbric.com/currentissue...
Thrilled to be able to say that Hell Itself Magazine has nominated my story, "Reaping Whirlwinds," for a Pushcart Prize!
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So much love!
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So much love!
Reaping Whirlwinds – Hell Itself
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November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thrilled to be able to say that Hell Itself Magazine has nominated my story, "Reaping Whirlwinds," for a Pushcart Prize!
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So much love!
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So much love!
And here's my list of 2025 poems, including my full collection, "To Love Unquietly" !
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
And here's my list of 2025 poems, including my full collection, "To Love Unquietly" !
Awards eligibility time! 16 stories published for the first time this year, and I'd really like to encourage people to check out my novella, "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise," if you have time!
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Awards eligibility time! 16 stories published for the first time this year, and I'd really like to encourage people to check out my novella, "The Carrying Capacity of Paradise," if you have time!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4 New story out today! I believe I'm even the first story in the anthology with "The Girl with No Name."
Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books)
Amazon.com: Twisted Trails: Tales of the Weird Wild West (Shacklebound Books) eBook : Fomley, Eric: Kindle Store
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4 New story out today! I believe I'm even the first story in the anthology with "The Girl with No Name."
Happy to announce that I'll have a story in a new Flame Tree anthology soon! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Romantic Fantasy | Contents Announcement | Of Love & Dragons
We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for one of the first two titles in our new Romantic Fantasy series: Of Love & Dragons!
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November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy to announce that I'll have a story in a new Flame Tree anthology soon! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Absolutely delighted to share my Halloween story with you all!
Happy Halloween from Hell Itself!
In honor of the day, we've got "The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu" by @deborahldavitt.com!
In honor of the day, we've got "The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu" by @deborahldavitt.com!
The Great Old One Myrowl-Shu – Hell Itself
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October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Absolutely delighted to share my Halloween story with you all!
Love The Daily Tomorrow. Go check out my new story live with them starting today!
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Love The Daily Tomorrow. Go check out my new story live with them starting today!
New poetry live today at @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New poetry live today at @thesunlightpress.bsky.social
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
Go check out their new issue! www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/p...
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Finished my "rough draft" of my most recent project.
59 poems, 108 pages, 19,718 words. Not bad for about a month's work!
59 poems, 108 pages, 19,718 words. Not bad for about a month's work!
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Finished my "rough draft" of my most recent project.
59 poems, 108 pages, 19,718 words. Not bad for about a month's work!
59 poems, 108 pages, 19,718 words. Not bad for about a month's work!
A friend asked me to pass along an anthology funding on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...
It's a tie-in for their TTRPG system, so the stories should all be steampunky goodness. Check it out!
It's a tie-in for their TTRPG system, so the stories should all be steampunky goodness. Check it out!
Tales from Whitechapel
A antholology for the Gaslight Victorian Fantasy RPG
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October 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A friend asked me to pass along an anthology funding on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/165...
It's a tie-in for their TTRPG system, so the stories should all be steampunky goodness. Check it out!
It's a tie-in for their TTRPG system, so the stories should all be steampunky goodness. Check it out!
New poem today! teachwritejournal.com/current-issue/
Current Issue
2025 Fall/Winter Edition 2025 FAWIDownload
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October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New poem today! teachwritejournal.com/current-issue/
New poem live today, a dark, dark piece called "Altamura Man," currently live at Reader Beware Magazine: readerbewaremag.itch.io/reader-bewar...
READER BEWARE 2025 by Reader Beware
READER BEWARE 5: DEATH OF THE EDITORS
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October 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
New poem live today, a dark, dark piece called "Altamura Man," currently live at Reader Beware Magazine: readerbewaremag.itch.io/reader-bewar...
Book mail day! I love getting to see my name on the covers. . . and the stories inside are going to be FUN.
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Book mail day! I love getting to see my name on the covers. . . and the stories inside are going to be FUN.
For those who aren't aware, I periodically run a workshop called Developing Our Voices, which gathers writers and gives them a chance to get comfortable reading their own work out loud.
If anyone is interested in participating in the next one, please DM me, and I'll try to get one scheduled. <3
If anyone is interested in participating in the next one, please DM me, and I'll try to get one scheduled. <3
September 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For those who aren't aware, I periodically run a workshop called Developing Our Voices, which gathers writers and gives them a chance to get comfortable reading their own work out loud.
If anyone is interested in participating in the next one, please DM me, and I'll try to get one scheduled. <3
If anyone is interested in participating in the next one, please DM me, and I'll try to get one scheduled. <3
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As someone who is neurodiverse and on the spectrum, I have thoughts on that presidential big announcement about autism. Here we go!
We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/
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We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/
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When They Say They've Cured Autism | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As someone who is neurodiverse and on the spectrum, I have thoughts on that presidential big announcement about autism. Here we go!
We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/
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We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/
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It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
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September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
www.emilyhare.co.uk