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Anna Vangala Jones
@anniejowrites.bsky.social
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author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, AAWW, etc.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · Nov 25
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
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telling websites to remember me as I leave & pause in the doorway to look back at them over my shoulder
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
telling websites to remember me as I leave & pause in the doorway to look back at them over my shoulder
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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TW at AWP!

Come through to booth 724 for hot indie books, hand-made chaps, trail packs, andoutdoorsy aesthetics. We're having 3 generations of TW authors signing books @anniejowrites.bsky.social @adamg.bsky.social @keslentz.bsky.social on Thursday & Friday. We're excited to see you in Baltimore!
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
my kid worked on his new story & wrote 500 words today. I wrote two sentences lol. asking him for tips
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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andrewbertaina.bsky.social
804 at AWP will be in Baltimore this year at Picket Brewing.
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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melostrom.bsky.social
Mocha & I are spending our morning with the latest beautiful issue of the Blue Earth Review. I’m so happy it includes my CNF flash “Good and Plenty.”💚🐶📚
February 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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stephanieaustin.bsky.social
My debut novel Burn came out this week from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and I'm so happy to welcome her to the world.

www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html
BURN
BURN  Stephanie Austin Order Here (ebook & paperback available) “ BURN  is filled with beautiful losers covered in scars of their own making. And yet it also finds hope in the dark places, both...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
if I give up social media entirely, maybe will wander my local grocery store, handing out my printed short stories like flyers or post them on cafe bulletin boards saying here, please read this
February 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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✨LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA - Cover Reveal!✨

After years of writing tiny stories about small moments, I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA is forthcoming November 10, 2026 with @bullcitypress.com

Preorders are now available:
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Front cover of book is an abstract painting of ocean blue paint over white canvas. The title is in blocky font with pale navy blue letters. JENNY WONG LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA STORIES & SMALL FICTIONS Back cover of book with the following blurbs: "Quiet, contemplative, transformative, Light Chemical Sea, will send you on a meditative journey through wavelengths of sound, of light, of love, of loss, on pathways of auroras, of highways, of elements, of life. Jenny Wong's singular voice will whisper, will call, will summon you to be present in the warp and weft of her words." -MELISSA LLANES BROWNLEE, AUTHOR OF BITTER OVER SWEET "Jenny Wong is an alchemist turning moments of being into illumination of character. Wong is drawn to those on the periphery, people who don't quite fit in. In small flashes of brilliance she highlights the elements of their lives as they find solace in nature or catch glimpses of their true selves." -DEBBIE ROBSON, AUTHOR OF A GLIMPSE AND THE HERMITAGE "The obscure and almost-absurd become visible and believable under the skillful care of writer Jenny Wong in the compelling Light Chemical Sea, a collection of stories and small fictions. In three parts, she delivers us into the essence of light, dips us full-bodied into the effervescent chemicals we are made of, and then returns us to the sea where life as we know it really begins. The words, beyond language-rich, flawlessly represent images we want to hold under a microscope to try to assess the ways she gives them voice. It's a magic only a few can master. Make no mistake, this is the work of a sterling storyteller who weaves mystery with mundane to concoct a world view that draws us not only into her personal reflections of such basic natural forces (light, chemical, and sea), but leads us, sometimes unknowingly, into a labyrinth of cues and clues towards to the majesty of life we all belong to." —KAREN PIERCE GONZALEZ, AUTHOR OF DOWN RIVER WITH LI PO Description: Jenny Wong peeks into the lives of characters caught in lighthouses, subways, shorelines, Walmart aisles, and airports. With a talent for lingering and looking, with the elemental precision of a poet, her small mosaics imbue the quotidian with quiet wonder. The international traveler, the preteen chemistry student, and the perimenopausal millennial who spends her days in the sun are trail guides for landscapes saturated with solitude and vastness, the whispers of ancestors and the ironies of aging. Light Chemical Sea reports back from the transpacific diaspora, glimpsing into the liminal pause between what happened and what happens next.
February 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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melostrom.bsky.social
Congratulations, @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!💚📚🎉
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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bulbregion.bsky.social
New Natalie Warther alert! 🚨

“I try to explain to my son, Mommy might become a bird before you become a bird. He says with hawkish confidence not to worry, that he would keep me as his pet.”

Read “All the People Are Becoming Birds” in The Bulb Region.

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All the People Are Becoming Birds, by Natalie Warther — The Bulb Region
All the People Are Becoming Birds — Natalie Warther WE EACH WAIT OUR TURN, knowing...
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January 24, 2026 at 3:51 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
I don’t want “to achieve success” I want to sit on a park bench among tall trees and birds and read a book and look at some clouds and ducks
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
really loved getting to have this chat with @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social. and she's incredibly kind in the intro!

"Tacoma has all the hallmarks of a Burch book—nostalgia, magic, fun, optimism, friendship, and more heart than almost any other writer doing it today."
IT'S KINDA PUNK ROCK TO WRITE ABOUT JOY: AN INTERVIEW WITH AARON BURCH by Kirsti MacKenzie
Part of the fun of being a writer, and learning from other writers, is seeing what others leave of themselves on the page. To follow their work and discover their signature—the intangible that makes s...
xraylitmag.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
Title: “A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” Author: Anna Vangala Jones An illustration of a man walking past a cafe window. Inside the cafe a woman is sitting and drinking coffee at a table by the window and the man is looking at her as he walks.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new short story in the wonderful Terrazzo Editions today called “Maybe Mary” & I’d be thrilled if you give it a read. so grateful to amazing editor Gina Nutt. you can find her interview with me here too www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple title: Maybe Mary author: Anna Vangala Jones a mosaic pattern in blue, tan, and purple quote from story: “She says she doesn’t want to talk about the disappearance. Anything but that is fine.”
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: March 31, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the opening lines of the story: “Everyone’s heard the rumors that when you die, they take you into a house you’ve never seen before—real dilapidated and creepy for added effect maybe—and in each room, they make you watch people from throughout the course of your life reading or listening to all the things you’ve wanted to say to them when you were alive but never did. Letters, emails, notes in books, burned CDs, text messages, silent moments”
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new story in Short Story Long today! it’s about the mystery of people you come across often but can’t truly know. many thanks to wonderful editor @aaronburch.bsky.social, Zoë Petersen for the lovely art, & any of you who read it ♡
The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier by Anna Vangala Jones
"He was beautiful but not in the way of a movie star or something. Beautiful in the regular person way. Beautiful to us."
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September 19, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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I have a new story up at @rejectionlit.bsky.social today! it’s about friendship breakups and the living ghosts that haunt us. so grateful to amazing editor @kevinmkearney.bsky.social & any of you who read it ♡ rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/n...
Now it’s nothing but flowers (Anna Vangala Jones)
I know I’m her ghost. The one that lingers in the corners of her memory, waiting to strike—when some song by Bruce Springsteen plays, or when she drives by our old favorite diner, or when it rains …
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January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...
Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk into the Woods by Anna Vangala Jones - CRAFT
We’d agreed to never come back to this place yet here we are. The wind whispers through the trees and unsettles our hair, trying to remind us to leave. Why would we return to these woods? “I don’t car...
www.craftliterary.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.

I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
anniejowrites.bsky.social
and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story
January 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM