my ARCs arrived!!📚 release for SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US is 5/4/27! reviewers/interviewers, dm if you’re interested in a copy!
Chin-Sun Lee
@scribblepost.bsky.social
author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary https://linktr.ee/chinsunlee
SOON YOU’ll BE JUST LIKE US cover reveal! coming may 4th, 2027: a sci-fi thriller about a young korean american journalist who seeks status & security in a patriarchal, hierarchical society through beauty and medical experimentation—then learns she signed on for more than she or her body can handle
was AWP only a month ago? thanks to bloom lit for this report about our packed-to-capacity panel addressing debuts after 50! substack.com/@chinsunlee/...
i’m proud to be part of this scholarship committee helping louisiana undergrads—esp underprivileged, BIPOC, & LGBTQIA+ students—pursuing the arts. applications for the 2026-2027 academic year open april 1st. visit tinyurl.com/armaturescholarship to learn more, and please spread the word!
back from #awp2026, where i was gagged to see SO MANY writers at our “debuting after 50” panel w/ melanie faranello, zeeva bukai & nita noveno, moderated by the 🔥 sara lippmann. huge thanks to all who showed up!🙏
so thrilled my new novel, SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US, has found a home with Creature Publishing!🩸i spilled my guts all over this weird, dark tale of psychological horror that while writing led me to truly unexpected places. i hope readers will likewise feel a delicious gasp of surprise.
“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9mo agoMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
readers! tantor is running a 50% discount holiday promotion on audiobooks, including mine—so if you’ve been curious @ UPCOUNTRY, this northern gothic is all wintry vibes🌨️
50% OFF Upcountry
Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three g...
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Received my copy of the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social 2026 Anthology. Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle (“Last Song Villanelle”) & an interview in the anthology! Order here: www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page.... #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poem #writers
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
delighted to see UPCOUNTRY in this @electricliterature.com roundup of creepy ghoulish books by laura venita green, author of SISTER CREATURES—out now w/ @unnamedpress.bsky.social! link to article in comments
still a few more spots (and days) left—so come and get ‘em! i still think of fall as “back to school,” so if you’ve been itching to dedicate more focus on your writing, perhaps now is the time? (link for details/to register in bio)
if you want to escape from all the things just for a few moments, read this new story by Elizabeth Bull—it’s so weird and lovely and funny and moving. i’d just woken up from a nap when i read it, and felt that dream-world shift into hers… atlengthmag.com?fbclid=IwdGR...
literature that looks good on a laptop
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WRITERS! i’m leading an 8-week intermediate-advanced fiction workshop next month—so if you have a novel, stories, or work of autofiction you’d like to propel or revise, ‘tis the season to get serious! 4 days left for early registration, see link in bio💫
such fun chatting with @allysonnoman.bsky.social while she pulled some timely tarot cards!✨✨✨ check out our convo & follow her stack! open.substack.com/pub/allysonn...
PAST PRESENT FUTURE — with Chin-Sun Lee
on family, mortality, and trusting the process of not knowing
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Starting September 1st, the Associated Press will no longer release their standardized, stand-alone reviews for new books.
The Associated Press is ending its regular book coverage.
In good news for people who love bad news, the Associated Press is apparently ending its regular literary coverage. Starting September 1st, the national news source and media hub will no longer rel…
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looking for edinburgh & glasgow recs: i'll be there end-aug thru end-sept, with a writing rez in between. art, book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, thrifting, flea markets, cemeteries, parks, pubs (peaty scotch!🥃), weird random poke-abouts—throw 'em at me please!🙏
An update: We still have no rep in Congress (same with two other Dem-held districts in GOP states) & instead of an election the Governor is holding a special legislative session to redraw the districts. The proposed map will give the GOP 5 additional seats. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats
The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.
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Lacy M. Johnson@lacymjohnson.bsky.social · last yr.Would love to call my congressional rep about this illegal attack but my district has been rep-less since the death of Sylvester Turner in March bc the TX Governor refuses to hold an election to replace him in order to improve the GOP margin in Congress. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/07/g...
Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says
A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.
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i’ve taught this generative workshop in person & now i’m psyched to lead a virtual version this fall w/ @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! october 18th, 12-2pm ET, $65, enroll here: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/pros...
