This year, I self-published AN UNEXPECTED FEAST, book 3 in my Curses & Curtains series! This is extra exciting because now Curses & Curtains is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Series, if that is something you want to nominate it for!
Buy AN UNEXPECTED FEAST today!
Cover by K.B. Spangler
I also self-published my second collection of short fiction and poetry, SHELLS FOR HEARTS: RETELLINGS – buy it today!
Cover by Arden Powell
I had 10 short stories come out this year, with an 11th to be added very soon (“A Frozen Woman of Balecrocus” will appear in the anthology Into the Dark, from All Worlds Wayfarer, on 12/21)
- “The Seventy-Eight Spoons” originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 2025
- “Kraken Memories” originally published in Penumbric, October 2025
- “Dybbuk-Draw” originally published in Kaleidotrope, July 2025
- “Her Sister, In Starlight” originally published in Kosmox Obscure, June 2025, Graveside Press
- “In Time With The Ocean” originally published in Underland Arcana, June 2025
- “The Breath of Birds” originally published in The Apparatus Almanac, March 2025, JayHenge Publishing
- “Unforgettable Blintzes” originally published in Daikaijuzine, March 2025
- “How Afraid” originally published in Howl, February 2025, Graveside Press
- “Shells for Hearts” originally published in Not One Of Us, January 2025
- “Lettuce and Sand” originally published in Kaleidotrope, January 2025
I also had 19 poems come out this year, with a 20th coming soon (“Find the Fern” will be in the 2025 Winter Solstice issue of Eternal Haunted Summer)
- “Aurora, Apricot” originally published in Trollbreath, December 2025
- “Starbirds Dance” originally published in Utopia Science Fiction, December 2025
- “A Legion of Lecanomancers” originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, November 2025
- “My Hanukkah Kraken” originally published in Kozy Krampus, September 2025, Underland Press
- “Endlessness of Oracles” originally published in Not One of Us, September 2025
- “After the Battle” originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, August 2025
- “Adventures” originally published in This Exquisite Topology, August 2025, Angry Gable Press
- “An Intergalactic Kraken’s Greatest Woe” originally published in This Exquisite Topology, August 2025, Angry Gable Press
- “Venus, In Transit” originally published in Star*Line 48.3, July 2025
- “Filaments” originally published in Strange Horizons, June 2025
- “Tree-Time” originally published in Corvid Queen, May 2025
- “As My Soul Becomes Water” originally published in Star*Line 48.2, April 2025
- “A Tree, At Peace” originally published in Strange Horizons, March 2025
- “Numbered” originally published in Heartlines, March 2025
- “Under the Icicles” originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, February 2025
- “A Moon Witch, Guided by Fungi” originally published in Solarpunk Magazine, January 2025
- “Seek the Strawberry Plant” originally published in Star*Line 48.1, January 2025
- “A Frog Laments” originally published in Star*Line 48.1, January 2025
- “Ballast” originally published in Not One Of Us, January 2025
Thank you for reading, and please enjoy this picture of Ben, Resident Editorial Hound
Devan Barlow 