Creative Writing

Note: Due to dissertation work, other research, and the pandemic, I have not published creative works in over a year. If you’re interested in seeing what I’ve been up to, check out “My Research” on the home page.

I am currently working on a children’s chapter book entitled “The Strays on Whisker Street”. Please stay tuned for more information about this. I am aiming to self-publish within the next year or so.

Several of my more recent works are located on my Instagram (@delvonwrites). Poems that have been originally published elsewhere may have been modified to fit the style of the account.

Please navigate to the original publication source to read any of these works. You might stumble upon some great fiction/CNF/poetry from other writers along the way! If a link below does not work, contact me and I will send you a copy of the piece via email.

Featured

• “Dianne.” Maudlin House (September 2020): online.
• “The Dispensary.” Maudlin House (April 2020): online.
• “The Waiting Room.” Anesthesiology (March 2020): online and print.
• “Diphenhydramine.” Jellyfish Review (February 2019): online.
• “Save Me, Lady Liberty.” Star 82 Review (June 2019): online and print.
• “Ana and the Window.” Agony Opera (August 2019) (Reprint): online.
• “Scholarly Nests.” Academic Psychiatry (March 2020): online and print.
• “The Inner Circle.” The Hellebore (December 2019): online.
• “Identifying Empathy.” Neologism Poetry Journal (November 2019): online.
• “Nobody Cares.” MoonPark Review (September 2018): online.

Short Fiction in Periodicals

2019-2020

• “The Dispensary.“ Maudlin House (April 2020): online.
• “The Inner Circle.” The Hellebore (December 2019): online.
• “Ana and the Window.” Agony Opera (August 2019) (Reprint): online.
• “Narcissus.” Down in the Dirt (Scars Publications) (August 2019): online and print.
• “A World of Shade.” New American Legends (July 2019): online.
• “Mindless.” Visitant Lit (May 2019): online.
• “Poems for the Devil.” Riggwelter (April 2019): online.
• “Trajectories.” The Ginger Collect (March 2019): online.
• “Diphenhydramine.” Jellyfish Review (February 2019): online.
• “The Curse of Dander.” Vamp Cat Magazine  (February 2019): online.
• “Blood Play.” Terror House Magazine  (February 2019): online.
• “Emblazon.” Asymmetry: Short Speculative Fiction (January 2019): online.

2018

• “A One-Way Trip to Self-Propagation.” Soft Cartel (December 2018): online.
• “Silence, Father.” BULL: Men’s Fiction (December 2018): online.
• “Ami and Tsuki.” Furtive Dalliance Literary Magazine (December 2018): online and print.
• “A Little Bit of Everything.” Red Queen Literary Magazine (November 2018): online.
• “Even the Decent Ones Are Brutal.” Red Queen Literary Magazine (November 2018): online.
• “A Prophecy of No Winners.” Aphotic Realm (October 2018): online.
• “Nobody Cares.” MoonPark Review (September 2018): online.
• “Your Kind of Thing.” STORGY Magazine (September 2018): online.
• “June, It’s Me.” Cephalopress: Ink Sac (September 2018): online.
• “A Cycle of Toxic Domestication.” Maudlin House (September 2018): online.
• “Sometimes Heroes Can’t Wear Brown Skin.” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (August 2018): online.
• “A Final Moment in 1911.” The Cabinet of Heed Literary Journal (August 2018): online.
• “Move On, Irene.” Corvus Review (July 2018): online.
• “Behind the Pancakes.” Scarlet Leaf Review (July 2018): print.
• “Neither of Us Are Boyfriends.” Literally Stories (June 2018): online.
• “Ana and the Window.” Scrutiny Journal (May 2018): online.
• “Perfect Match.” The Fiction Pool (May 2018): online.

Poetry in Periodicals

2019-2020

• “Cement.” Spillwords Press (October 2020): online.
• “Dianne.” Maudlin House (September 2020): online.
• “White Coat Probing.” Line Rider Press (July 2020): online.
• “Tears.” Magnolia Review (April 2020): online and print.
• “Ink Sac.” Magnolia Review (April 2020): online and print.
• “Baku.” Anti-Heroin Chic (April 2020): online.
• “Nights with Sickle Cell.” Families, Systems, & Health (June 2020): online and print.
• “Scholarly Nests.” Academic Psychiatry (March 2020): online and print.
• “Play Pen Prisoner.” The Fiction Pool (December 2019): online.
• “Lost.” The Fiction Pool (December 2019): online.
• “Blunder.” The Fiction Pool (December 2019): online.
• “Identifying Empathy.” Neologism Poetry Journal (November 2019): online.
• “It’s Not Real.“ Spillwords Press (November 2019 – Forthcoming): online.
• “Metamorphosis.” Picaroon Poetry (September 2019): online.
• “It Must Be Pretty Hard to Try.“ Eunoia Review (September 2019): online.
• “The Waiting Room.“ Anesthesiology (March 2020): online and print.
• One Senryu. Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu (August 2019): online.
• “Shapeless.” Rhythm of the Bones, Dark Marrow (July 2019): online.
• “Reapers.” Little Rose Magazine (July 2019): online.
• “I Attract People With White Savior Complexes.” Maudlin House (June 2019): online.
• “Save Me, Lady Liberty.” Star 82 Review (June 2019): online and print.
• “Ebb.” Rue Scribe, Underwood Press (May 2019): online.
• “Decay.” Rue Scribe, Underwood Press (May 2019): online.
• “Puppy Chow.” Rue Scribe, Underwood Press (May 2019): online.
• “Thin Ice.” Spillwords Press (May 2019): online.
• “12/28.” Leaves of Ink (May 2019): online.
• “Cheap Shot.” Royal Rose (May 2019): online.
• One Haiku (Untitled). Haikuniverse (April 2019): online.
• “Dependence.” Anti-Heroin Chic (April 2019): online.
• “Limbo.” Anti-Heroin Chic (April 2019): online.
• “Wanderlust.” Anti-Heroin Chic (April 2019): online.
• “9 AM.” SOFT CARTEL (March 2019): online.
• “Flood.” SOFT CARTEL (March 2019): online.
• “Green Smoothie.” Cuento Magazine (March 2019): online.

Micro-Fiction in Periodicals

2018-2019

• “Keep Dreaming.” Potato Soup Journal (September 2019): online.
• “A Twisted Sense of Character Reroll.” Drabblez Magazine (April 2019): online.
• “Dumb Giants.” Drabblez Magazine (April 2019): online.
• “Deadbeat.” Cuento Magazine (March 2019): online.
• “The Day I Decided to Wear Jewelry“. Friday Flash Fiction (December 2018): online.
• “Pores.” Eunoia Review (September 2018): online.
• “Icebreaker.” 121 Words (August 2018): online.
• “K, Mom.” Friday Flash Fiction (August 2018): online.
• “Millions of Views.” The Drabble (August 2018): online.
• “Knots That Matter.” 101 Words (June 2018): online.
• “Try Again.” The Drabble (February 2018): online.