Kawai Shen
@kawaishen.bsky.social
Read me and weep she/her; if I like you, you can call me sir http://www.kawaishen.com
New guest edited issue of Glyphöria is live with readings and more from the METAMOOD book launches for Wavering Futures ✨ Ft Lee Suksi, Katia Lo Innes, Gabrielle Marceau, Ryan Akler-Bishop, Sennah Yee, Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch, Trynne Delaney, Kate Brooks, Marcela Huerta, Nirris Nagendrarajah 🧡
Issue VII – WAVERING FUTURES – Kawai Shen
❋ What is a community? What is a community for? What makes a community different from a family, or a circle of friends, or a scene? ❋ How do we face the future together? ❋ Are you looking to be seen? ...
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FeelsZine is now open for submissions on the theme BELONGING, CA$25 honorarium feelszine.com/pages/submis...
Submissions
Interested in being a Feels contributor? Fantastic! We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 27: Belonging. When we have the space to truly be ourselves so much can change. How does it feel to...
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Toronto's Degenerate Zine issue 2 will drop this October 🎃
Chris, or sometimes Serge on Instagram: "Save the date! More details on performers and much else in the coming weeks. Tickets on sale soooon-ish. Degenerate No. 2 launch October 17, 2026 ~ 9:30pm - ...
202 likes, 19 comments - casual_gimp on August 6, 2026: "Save the date! More details on performers and much else in the coming weeks. Tickets on sale soooon-ish. Degenerate No. 2 launch October 17, ...
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In amazing news, one of my beloved editors has a new book dropping soon - film and poetry lovers stay tuned 🍾✨ www.instagram.com/sennahaha/p/...
Sennah Yee on Instagram: "My sophomore poetry collection RUSHES, shortlisted for @nightboat_books' poetry prize, will be published by @coachhousebooks fall 2027 ❤️🔥 This book of 100 movie poems has ...
404 likes, 98 comments - sennahaha on August 5, 2026: "My sophomore poetry collection RUSHES, shortlisted for @nightboat_books' poetry prize, will be published by @coachhousebooks fall 2027 ❤️🔥 This...
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Just sent my editor my piece on labour, AI and @wgawest.bsky.social's 2026 collective agreement ✨ I've read so many contracts and talked to so many organizers, I can't believe I managed to squeeze this all into ~500 words, feeling like an idea compactor...
SOLRAD has been online, ad-free, and paywall-free since 2020. Keeping it that way costs about $7,600 a year, and every bundle you grab helps us get there for 2027. Shop the sale + support SOLRAD: crowdfundr.com/support_solrad Great comics. Great deal. Great cause. Let's go.
The Support SOLRAD Warehouse Sale!
We need your help to keep the three-time Eisner-nominated SOLRAD running, and we're offering Fieldmouse Press books published between 2021 and 2024 for 50% off to cover the magazine's publishing expen...
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Dropped by Vinegar Syndrome to pick up something for this rainy summer evening ⛈️
Sharing my research and recs for Substack alternatives! I see a lot of rants about Substack but not actual breakdowns of good, tested alternatives. Plus the alternatives are great, and are not trying to nag you into joining their social network. blog.byjasonli.com/finding-a-bu...
Finding a budget-conscious Substack alternative (what I'm using in 2026)
A guide to my favorite newsletter platforms in 2026, both paid and free.
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Yes to this thread! Notetakers aren't stenographers. You must metabolize the meeting (and restructure content logically vs chronologically) for *ease of reference and accountability.* e.g. Provide context; record decisions made + reasoning; create a tasklist with those responsible + deadlines, etc.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
Will’s book comes out in April and it is beautiful. As it’s our first book of strictly flash fiction we are offering a flash sale. Code AFTERLASTCALL gets 50% off anything in our store today only (8/1/26). Great day to preorder Will’s book but the code will also work on all of our other titles!
Will Musgrove@willmusgrove.bsky.social · last mo.Fun fact: You can pre-order my book, After Last Call, using this link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl... 💙 youtu.be/aDTwO0TlwOU?...
Subs for our next issue close TONIGHT! Polish it up and get it IN 🔥⏳
FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne week left for our last submission cycle of the year! If you have a Black magic school story this is your time to shine! Don't self reject ⏳
Heads up: we open to submissions tonight at midnight, EST
"I wanted my writing to become like flogging. And make people's hearts full of pain." - Medya, Children of Fire
Kawai Shen@kawaishen.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm on a roll with these double bills. Two books about Kurdistan.
Saw someone post about this novel on Discord and I found a draft review I wrote (it's just missing an intro summary but maybe it'll pique your interest more without one...)
Kawai Shen@kawaishen.bsky.social · 2y agoThis disturbing novel accurately captures a subject who is both disassociated from and hyper present in their own body, both alarmingly passive and in constant motion, deeply disorganized and chaotic
New Friend: You're kind of like... an onion! Kawai: Don't I know it. NF: It's because you have so many layers! K: No, it's because I'm good at making people cry.
Sold out but there will be tickets at the door, deets in 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/literal-bi...
Literal Bimbos: Fantasy Zine Launch
Join your favourite literary bimbos, himbos, and thembos for the launch of Literal Bimbos Issue No.3: FANTASY.
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Great Worm Express Distro will be tabling at Zine Dream 16 in August! Come check our table! See who else will be exhibiting here: zinedream.com#exhibitors
Sequential artists. Gag tableau specialists. People who draw wild stuff in a vaguely narrative format. In a word, CARTOONISTS! We want your short-form but indelible work on the theme of DISTRACTIONS. No style restrictions. Visit slipsslips.net or DM with questions, and please spread the word!
Forgot to share before, but @comicsjournal.bsky.social had a write up on Zine Dump, a new zine fair in Toronto which me and several other Toronto-based zinesters organized last year, with our 2nd event happening this November. Thank you Luis!!
There is Hope For Your Embittered Heart: Zine Dump 2025 Scene Report - The Comics Journal
Zine Dump 2025: resetting the standard for community-building in the comix world? Luis Ramirez-Liberato investigates.
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Trying to start a discord group for women and non-binary writers of speculative (or just kind of strange in all genres) fiction. So we can encourage each other, etc. On the ground floor right now. If you want in, let me know, and I'll send you the link!
Since The Odyssey is trending, RPing this.
Kawai Shen@kawaishen.bsky.social · last yr.I feel like most N.Americans have forgotten the advantages that come with going unseen. In other cultures, keeping things under wraps was/is understood as an adept way to conduct yourself, certainly wiser than laying your cards on the table for the benefit of having total randos like them.
"Wavering Futures offers rich and complex visions of catastrophe and those who endure it. For all its eclecticism, each fragment remains lucid and focused... [Shen] articulates a vision of a precarious, shared future, one that implicates readers."🔥🌊 maisonneuve.org/article/summ...
The Summer 2026 Book Room
Reviews of new publications.
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Kawai Shen@kawaishen.bsky.social · 2mo agoA friend just bought a subscription to Maisonneuve just so he could send me a positive review of Wavering Futures 🧡 Will share when the article is unpaywalled
