🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

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My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

Corneal abrasion from....cleaning up my kiddo's pipe cleaner and foil art projects is definitely something I hadn't expected 💀

I have a new poem out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social today! It’s my first new poem of the year. “Butterfly Effect” is inspired by all the unfinished stories and all the things I wish we could take back. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/butt...

Butterfly Effect - Uncanny Magazine

I always liked this idea: how we’d walk to the end of the subway tunnel and there’d be a door where everyone was waiting on the other side with all the things we’d ever lost.   I always liked how to d...

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My interview in the new issue of @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social is now free-to-read! I talk about my story "Brainstem Disco, 2191," how I write flash vs. poetry, and thinking in multiple languages. www.orions-belt.net/archives/int...

Interview with Angela Liu — Orion's Belt

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Orion's Belt magazine@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our summer issue #36 is now online and free to read on our website!! Please have a read of these incredible stories, poems & interviews and help us share them! To read: tinyurl.com/OB-issue36 To get the PDF/ebook: ko-fi.com/s/95de821dd4 To subscribe to OB 🧡: bit.ly/orionsbelt-p...

I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/

Guys, I’m speechless. Gonna be sharing this award with my 8-year-old since this poem was inspired by their question “why do we never see fireflies in the winter?” Huge thanks to the Ignyte organizers, all the voters/readers, and to @thedeadlands.com for giving this one a wonderful home!

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last wk.

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry goes to THE LANGUAGE OF FIREFLIES by Angela Liu (The Deadlands)

wowwwwwwwwww!!! congrats to @angelaliu.bsky.social well done to editor @nicasio.bsky.social and the whole deadlands team!!! you can read this poem right here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

The Language of Fireflies - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light             for a taste of a real moon, fold […]

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The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last wk.

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry goes to THE LANGUAGE OF FIREFLIES by Angela Liu (The Deadlands)

Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop

One of my most personal stories, "Kwong's Bath," is out now in @podcastle.org with a moving narration by Pine Gonzalez. It's about siblings, the ghosts we live with, and takes place in the same world as my story, "Barbershops of the Floating City." So happy to see this one get a second life 🛀

8-year-old: Chucky came to school today me: *cold wind gusts by* .....The doll? 8-year-old: *whispering* No mama, the big rat

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.

Reminder that every day is a great day to read @angelaliu.bsky.social . Here’s a few of my faves to get started: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine

After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

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I've got a midnight reading in about an hour at Flights of Foundry! Come listen to a new poem, a story about a bathroom hole, and maybe some awkward laughter.

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Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s my first time participating in Flights of Foundry! Come join me for a midnight (EST) reading/chat with drinks + snacks in hand or a speculative poetry panel with award winners and a GRAND MASTER. Check out all the great programming and guests here: flights-of-foundry.org

It’s my first time participating in Flights of Foundry! Come join me for a midnight (EST) reading/chat with drinks + snacks in hand or a speculative poetry panel with award winners and a GRAND MASTER. Check out all the great programming and guests here: flights-of-foundry.org

Love seeing speculative poetry gaining more and more writers and readers. Can't wait to see more reviewers too!

Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️@nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

✒️✨ Calling all SFF poetry enthusiasts! 🌈💫 Stardust & Verse is a new review site where I read and recommend fantastic free-to-read SFF poems. Here's a sneak peak of what to look forward to in September... #StardustAndVerse www.patreon.com/cw/StardustA...

britney spears but shes a miner. gimme gimme ore gimme ore gimme gimme ore

One of my most personal stories, "Kwong's Bath," is out now in @podcastle.org with a moving narration by Pine Gonzalez. It's about siblings, the ghosts we live with, and takes place in the same world as my story, "Barbershops of the Floating City." So happy to see this one get a second life 🛀

Poetry panel at 12pm!

Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'll be at Worldcon this year! I probably signed up for too many things! Come hear me read some poems/short stories, gush about my favorite anime, or do both with some other really cool writers!

I have a reading at 9am today (I’ll be reading from my book and two new poems)! Then it’s an anime (and how it’s inspired our work) discussion at 11:30am.

Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'll be at Worldcon this year! I probably signed up for too many things! Come hear me read some poems/short stories, gush about my favorite anime, or do both with some other really cool writers!

I've got an anime panel tomorrow at Worldcon with some very cool panelists, so seemed like a good time to whip this back out from the dead.

Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Because I have not yet seen this one 👀 Show me your favorites

I'm excited to share that The Best Science Fiction of the Year: 2025 anthology will be published by Wyrm Publishing in November. Full details on my blog: neil-clarke.com/next-install...

tis official!! a new book coming to y’all 2028 with @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 🥺🤍👻 background art: Da Huang Chan 💫

Sunday lounging.

i still think about this story semi-regularly. portal fantasy as an escape. what does it say when the portal fantasy world is just a bunch, a stream, and an old gate to nowhere? when that is your escape?

Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! “What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

I'll be at Worldcon this year! I probably signed up for too many things! Come hear me read some poems/short stories, gush about my favorite anime, or do both with some other really cool writers!

I am 90% sure my career wouldn't have happened if a couple people hadn't retweeted one of my stories the exact minute they did. You work your hardest, but it's not in your hands. It breaks a lot of people.

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My biggest frustration with writing is that quite often, the SWOOP that takes a book from midlist to BIG DEAL is pure luck, and I personally can't do anything to make it happen. Publishing is not a meritocracy. It's skill + time + luck, and all you can do is be in position for possible liftoff.