As the world fills with extruded, non-human content, I want more that’s real, handmade. Tell me the artists and handcrafters you love, sky friends.
tina s. zhu
@tinazhu.bsky.social
writer/fairytale nerd ✨ tinaszhu.com ✨read me in Reactor/tordotcom, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, monkeybicycle ✨Assistant Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
will never not be in awe of Tina’s power to make me laugh one sentence and shudder the next + what an incredible last sentence, which made me do both❤️go read this story!!
tina s. zhu@tinazhu.bsky.social · 4d agohello friends I have a story in The Dark this month!! it’s a reprint from an anthology that I hope is spooky heheh (cw toxic relationship, racist character) www.thedarkmagazine.com/portrait-of-...
hello friends I have a story in The Dark this month!! it’s a reprint from an anthology that I hope is spooky heheh (cw toxic relationship, racist character) www.thedarkmagazine.com/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Woman in a Red Qipao - The Dark Magazine
Most everyone has heard the Ben Franklin saying that death and taxes are the only constants in life. But there’s one more. I call it the Law of the Door. If someone tells you not to open a door, you a...
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I have a new story out on Reactor today, my first since my collection came out in 2021. It's about a teenage poet, friend breakups, and wrestling with inherited faith. There are spaceships that are massive libraries. It would make me very happy if you read and shared it! 😊
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2w agoA young translator is forced to confront whether or not she has become an unwitting collaborator with the people who have invaded her home when she translates important religious texts...perhaps too well. "Into Your Sun-Blessed Life" by @visyap.bsky.social is out now!
maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love
Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w agothere is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11
Absolutely loved this new story from Parker, and not just because I have recently been learning more about Paul Meadows than I ever wished to learn. So good. 🪳
Parker M. O'Neill@parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 2w agonew story out today in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social. Yes it's a weird POV and yes its written like a long speech to text message don't worry about it! www.nightshadesmag.com/your-mothers...
📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!
Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w agoSomeone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
I’ve been keeping this secret for MONTHS and now I can finally scream about it: I’VE GOT A FLASH CHAPBOOK COMING OUT!!!! it’s called Lies I Tell My Children and it has an amazing cover!! order it from Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/lie...
HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)
We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo 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...
All right, I’ve kept quiet for a bit because of real life crap, but come on guys. Our KS is moving at a snail's pace, and we can do better. And I’m not just saying this because I’m the marketing director of @khoreo.bsky.social, or because khōréō is my ride or die fam (which they are, ALWAYS)
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo 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...
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
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...
Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
i'm doing an AMA on r/fantasy today! if you've ever had a burning question to ask me...now is the time.
From the Fantasy community on Reddit: I’m Isabel J. Kim — author of debut novel SUBLIMATION (out today) — welcome to my AMA + Giveaway !!
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On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy
Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...
Cover Reveal & ToC: We're Here 2025 — neon hemlock
We’re delighted to announce, along with editor Bogi Takács and series editor Charles Payseur, the full table of contents for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025 : “Magical Girl A...
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So thrilled that my story “Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award!! huge congrats to the other finalists, and an extra shoutout to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and the other SILK & SINEW authors💗💗
Kristy Park Kulski@garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 2mo agoImmensely proud to see the news that SILK & SINEW has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award AND @audreyzhou.bsky.social is nominated for her absolutely stunning story, "Mother's Mother's Daughter." (Audrey you rock so much!!) I can't express how much this has all meant to me.
@anathemamagazine.bsky.social has a little under 20 days to go and is over 80% funded! Come and support a magazine paying pro rates for queer voices of color, no submission fees! Spread the word for the upcoming opening for submissions in June too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!
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If you've thought about the insidious violence of the coloniser's tongue, of how something you can love so much could gut your heart from the inside out, if you've ever loved a borrowed tongue enough that your mother slipped away, I wrote this for you www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...
Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief
The Sen had a curious saying in their musical language they fluted out using their tongue pipes. Ahsa an nira. The land knows you. As Mhyrsa stepped outside Kannari’s only landing pad, she smelled th...
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Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, Renny Gong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @crsantastic.bsky.social interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
interesting...my most 2 recently published pop star flashes ("The Pop Star's Mother Dreams of Bugs" and "The Pop Star's First Solo Concert") are the only two in this series following my Pop Star over many years and many adventures about parents and kids and Expectations...funny how that works
Hey hey! I'm in here with a flash fiction from my pop star series, "The Pop Star’s Mother Dreams About Bugs." check it out! and check out the other cool stories in here 😎
Tiny Molecules@tinymolecules.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpring is here and so is Issue Twenty-Seven. Read and enjoy these 13 wonderful stories! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
Spring is here and so is Issue Twenty-Seven. Read and enjoy these 13 wonderful stories! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
In some non sublimation news, very sick ballot for “wire mother” to be included on :)
Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 4mo agoBest short story (cont.) “Missing Helen” by @tiatashiro.bsky.social (Clarkesworld, Issue 226) “Six People to Revise You” by @jrdawson.bsky.social (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 62) “Wire Mother” by @isabel.kim (Clarkesworld, Issue 229) 507 ballots cast for 549 nominees. Finalists range 26-60. 11/
