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David Ly
@davidlywrites.bsky.social
dragon-hearted writer • cephalopod • “lee”
https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites
🐲 NOT ALL DRAGONS out spring ‘26
🐍 Mythical Man
🦑 Dream of Me as Water
😈 Queer Little Nightmares
My ritual is set. The interruption arrives Fall 2026. My next book of poems, Ritual, Interrupted, is on its way with Anstruther Books, @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
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September 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Editing my dragons on a day hot enough to hatch some. #NotAllDragons. @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
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June 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Not a love letter, exactly—but maybe something close.
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“Florence” is now in Issue 94 of The Cortland Review. Inspired by the music of Florence + The Machine. Thank you @christiangullette.bsky.social for giving this poem space: www.cortlandreview.com/issue-94/dav...
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The contract is signed. The wings have stirred. Not All Dragons is coming Spring 2026.
April 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
New year, new poem—catch my poem “New Familiar” in PRISM international’s SPELLS issue.
February 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My debut novel, Not All Dragons, is coming in spring 2026.
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A speculative fantasy about grief, transformation, and the myths we feel beholden to.
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Can’t wait to share more soon.
February 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
SAD Mag is having a sale on their SEX ISSUE! Printed in the summer of 2020, the issue was nominated for two National Magazine Awards and includes an interview I did for my debut poetry collection Mythical Man.
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Pick up your copy in the next week for something sexxxy: www.sadmag.ca/shop/issue-n...
February 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As we ring in the year of the snake in the coming days, 2025 marks five years of Mythical Man!🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍. Thank you to all my readers! Can’t wait to show you what’s coming next. Soon. ish. 🤫
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Bluesky, meet Liz.
November 28, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Thank you for giving my story a home, @ex-puritan.bsky.social and @anuja-v.bsky.social
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Time to raise the dead: ex-puritan.ca/necromantic
November 21, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Some recent poems of mine! Thank you Plenitude, SAD Mag, and carte blanche for giving my writing space💙

Dragon Hunting: plenitudemagazine.ca/dragon-hunti...
Ritual, Interrupted: www.sadmag.ca/blog/2024/6/...
Ode to Kindred, the Eternal Hunters: carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-49/ly-...
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Hello, Blue Sky! My name is David Ly (pronounced "Lee") and I'm a poet, editor, and writer and these are my books. I’m also the Poetry Editor at This Magazine 📖.

Follow along as I post more new writing and announcements!👋
November 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM
My poem “Dream of Me as Water” recently received a choir adaption by Stuart Beatch and performed by Ottawa’s Tone Cluster choir. It’s giving open-world video game vibes! Have a listen!
🌊🎶🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZt...
November 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Thank you for publishing SIREN SEASON, Plenitude Magazine!
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My little story about finding light in the dark, treading through uncomfortable moments, and weird and slimy sirens: plenitudemagazine.ca/siren-season/
November 20, 2024 at 4:56 PM