Kelsea Yu
@anovelescape.bsky.social
Shirley Jackon Award-nominated author: 🍃BOUND FEET (CGM) 🎮IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury) 🎭DEMON SONG (Titan) 🌊STORMRAVEN (Gallery/Titan, March 2027) 🖤stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, PseudoPod + she/her www.kelseayu.com
ICYMI 🌟 treat yourself to some stellar speculative ecofiction! 🌏🌱🦋 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...
Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're giving away 110 copies of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION on @thestorygraph.com! 🌱🪲🐛 If you want to catch up on the anthology series before the November release of ECO25, enter below before September 14th for a chance to win! 🗳️ app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...
Just a little over $2000 to go before we're FULLY FUNDED! We're down to the wire folks, with about three days to go, so let's get this over the hump and across the finish line! 🙌
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
"Esther had just enough time to marvel at seeing its lithe, rust red body move lightning-fast before it opened wide—wider than physically possible, she thought—and clamped sharp teeth down onto her wrist." "Creature" by @anovelescape.bsky.social
“Creature” by Kelsea Yu
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badgerdraws.bsky.social@badgerdraws.bsky.social · 2mo agoLithe!
Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...
Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
On June 12th at 6:30pm, Always Here Books in Portland is hosting us for an aro/ace panel with some of my favs! I'll be moderating the event with panelists Sydney Langford, @anovelescape.bsky.social, Neil Cochrane, and @roannasylver.bsky.social!
Thrilled to be in this month's issue of The Dark Magazine w/ my reprint, "Obedient Son," a 17th/18th-century twisted Chinese folklore retelling! Originally pubbed in Death in the Mouth anthology and later podcasted by Tales to Terrify. Now available free online: www.thedarkmagazine.com/obedient-son
My top 6 favorite stories from this collection: 1. Jubilee Junction by Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social 2. 7 P.M. Awards Ceremony, Followed by Girl Scout Auction at 8 by Sam Rebelein 3. I Swear I Didn’t Kill the Others by Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social 1/3
Rock Capuano@rockcapuano.bsky.social · 5mo agoCurrent Media: Book DARK MATTER PRESENTS HUMAN MONSTERS Edited by @sadiehartmann.bsky.social and Ashley Saywers (2022) I’ll be ranking these stories like I always do with anthologies. Noticing some names I’m familiar with and others that I’m not. Always up for discovering new writers in the genre.
This Friday at 6pm Pacific, I’ll be doing a live reading + Q&A on YouTube in support of @thepixelproject.bsky.social! Would love to see you there! 🫶🖤 Event: tinyurl.com/KYuR4P Fundraiser + More Info: bit.ly/Read4Pixels
The month is almost over, and a new issue of The Dark will be up soon. But you can, of course, still read my tale "Hunger," along with excellent stories from @sillysyntax.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social and Wailana Kalama. www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/
Hunger - The Dark Magazine
It started with a dream about a grey boy who called my name. Charlie. Charlie . . . Charlie. How do you know my name? You told it to me in a dream. My dream or your dream? Yes. I grew up powdered-milk...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 7mo agoHey friends! I have a brand new story up at The Dark. Somewhat autobiographical, and one of the favorite things I've written for that. I hope you'll give it a read. It is a bit strange and dark. www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/
I'm doing an AMA over at r/Fantasy today in support of @thepixelproject.bsky.social! Post your questions whenever you get the chance and I'll be back tonight to answer! <3 www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH).
his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…
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I got my contributor copy of ECO24, which contains my piece The Plasticity of Being! I’m extremely honored to be part of this antho with @anovelescape.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and others! It was edited by the great @marissavu.bsky.social.
I love how this story taps into that deep compassion and connection we have with other creatures as children, a more honest and real way of seeing the non-human world that not everyone is able to keep through adulthood.
Kelsea Yu@anovelescape.bsky.social · 8mo ago"My imagination was particularly captured by Skittering Within, by Kelsea Yu, where a young girl grows up with an extraordinary affinity with crabs" Thank you to Dr. Alice Violett for mentioning my story in this thoughtful review of the ECO24 anthology! 🦀🖤
"My imagination was particularly captured by Skittering Within, by Kelsea Yu, where a young girl grows up with an extraordinary affinity with crabs" Thank you to Dr. Alice Violett for mentioning my story in this thoughtful review of the ECO24 anthology! 🦀🖤
Marissa van Uden@marissavu.bsky.social · 8mo agoLovely review for "ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecoficton" 💚💚💚 "The most effective stories, for me, came under the theme of social commentary on novel solutions to environmental decline. These stories ask: who bears the brunt of these innovations, and who gets to carry on as before?"
Excited for Moonfall by @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social, Saltswept by Katalina Watt, Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, Bodies of Work @claymcleod.bsky.social, Nowhere Burning by @catrionaward.bsky.social, Stormraven by @anovelescape.bsky.social, Children of Strife @aptshadow.bsky.social & more!
All my awards-eligible 2025 publications!! It’s been a good publishing year. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social @spotifyforauthors.bsky.social @nightmare-magazine.com @crepuscularmag.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com @khoreo.bsky.social @horrortree.com for sharing my stories & essays with the world! 🖤🖤🖤
Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.
When It Hurts
A Love Letters Feature by Sarah Gailey - December 2025
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A poignant story of two sisters inseparable both in life and death. Of a mother who paves the road of no return. Of the decisions we make despite what our parents are letting us believe. by @anovelescape.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
In Our Skin - Nightmare Magazine
Mother’s blade slides into the soft skin at the nape of my neck, sharp and eager. She doesn’t falter the way she does when it’s Maddy’s turn. No cooing or crying. No reassurances as she slices through...
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Have you picked up DEMON SONG by @anovelescape.bsky.social yet? 🎶 A young woman discovers the terrifying secrets lurking within the walls of a Beijing opera house, in this Gothic horror novella inspired by Chinese mythology. 🎭 https://tinyurl.com/bdd8wdhu
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...
2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions
Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...
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I finished reading DEMON SONG by Kelsea Yu, and it was a beautiful take on diaspora experience and Chinese opera and completely delivered on the Phantom of the Opera (but make it sapphic)! Very sensual with some intense body horror moments, done beautifully. www.kelseayu.com/demon-song
Demon Song — Kelsea Yu
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✨NEW RELEASE!!!✨ It’s pub day for my fox spirit Chinese Cinderella romantic fantasy folklore tale, YE XIAN AND THE CELESTIAL FEAST! 🥳🎧🦊🍜💖 Listen for free via Spotify Premium, purchase from Libro.FM, Audible, or your fave audiobook retailer, or request from your local library!!! 🎧🦊🍜💖
Have you picked up DEMON SONG by @anovelescape.bsky.social yet? 🎶 A young woman discovers the terrifying secrets lurking within the walls of a Beijing opera house, in this Gothic horror novella inspired by Chinese mythology. 🎭 https://tinyurl.com/bdd8wdhu
Check out Kelsea Yu's ( @anovelescape.bsky.social ) thoughts on the novella being the PERFECT length for horror! horrortree.com/novella-the-... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Met @anovelescape.bsky.social and @wnwagner.bsky.social at the Salem, Oregon Book Bin today, had fun hearing them talk all things horror, writing and musical theater, and got some books signed 🥰 #booksky
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Leah Ning@leahning.bsky.social · 11mo agoGay JOHN WICK x MAD MAX FURY ROAD + soul magic When his ma’s murdered, Noah embarks on a cross-desert hunt for answers—w/ an annoyingly attractive war criminal offering help. As Noah’s suspicion turns to feelings (ugh!), secrets from his companion’s past threaten to destroy them both. #dvpit #a #f
