Audrey Zhou
@audreyzhou.bsky.social
SFFH writer | she/her | short fiction in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, and Lightspeed | Clarion 2025 | https://audreyzhouwrites.com/ | https://linktr.ee/audreyzhou
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Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
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They say Hugo noms are open, so just reupping. Thanks if you previously read or enjoyed any of these. No collection category, but if you liked UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, the titular novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (sans other stories) is eligible. As are other-other stories in thread. Thanks!
2025 Eligibility List
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
February 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
They say Hugo noms are open, so just reupping. Thanks if you previously read or enjoyed any of these. No collection category, but if you liked UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, the titular novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (sans other stories) is eligible. As are other-other stories in thread. Thanks!
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Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...
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sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 AM
sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨
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Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...
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What Comes First, the House or the Haunting? | Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora,’ a new anthology edited by Kristy Park Kulski, uses storytelling to demonstrate why ‘the ghosts of our futures cannot just be entiti...
lareviewofbooks.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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new audrey story !!! what is the boundary between what is true and what we want to be true? and how do we blur that boundary? and also sapphic yearning
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
new audrey story !!! what is the boundary between what is true and what we want to be true? and how do we blur that boundary? and also sapphic yearning
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My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
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Little jewel of a story from @audreyzhou.bsky.social free to read today! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
Six Sides of a Fairy Tale - Lightspeed Magazine
1. KING Once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter that he loved very much, and when she disappeared, he called you to the throne room and requested your services. “Tell me what happened to ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Little jewel of a story from @audreyzhou.bsky.social free to read today! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...
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Going to send out a new issue of my newsletter soon. Includes my latest short story/poetry/anime recs, and this time I’m going into the backstory of one of my oldest shorts, “The Time Traveler’s Cookbook.”
You can sign-up for my newsletter here: liu-angela.com/newsletter/
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February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Going to send out a new issue of my newsletter soon. Includes my latest short story/poetry/anime recs, and this time I’m going into the backstory of one of my oldest shorts, “The Time Traveler’s Cookbook.”
You can sign-up for my newsletter here: liu-angela.com/newsletter/
You can sign-up for my newsletter here: liu-angela.com/newsletter/
So reading this will change your life
I have a story out today! 'A Sleeper Ship is Like a Game of Go' is probably the most ambitious thing I've ever written, with future tense and a bit of slice of life. It’s about why we tell stories, why we play Go, and the role of AI in both of those.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_02_26/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_02_26/
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
So reading this will change your life
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I'm finally starting a newsletter! if you've ever went 'gee what does claire think about x craft thing or y industry event,' now's your chance 😄 first issue about crashing out and/or burning out is going out tomorrow 🙂↕️
clairejwen.substack.com
clairejwen.substack.com
a de(claire)ation of sentiments | Substack
writing updates, craft musings, and good times. Click to read a de(claire)ation of sentiments, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
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January 31, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I'm finally starting a newsletter! if you've ever went 'gee what does claire think about x craft thing or y industry event,' now's your chance 😄 first issue about crashing out and/or burning out is going out tomorrow 🙂↕️
clairejwen.substack.com
clairejwen.substack.com
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If you're nominating for the Rhysling, Nebula, or Hugo, I hope you'll consider some of my queer, dark, fantastical poetry!
Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.
Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.
If you only read one of my poems this year, I hope you'll check out "To Be the Change", pub'd by @strangehorizons.bsky.social!
🏳️⚧️ trans resilience and belonging
🪶 Intergenerational prophecies
🚀 Positively reviewed by Locus!
Read it now: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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🏳️⚧️ trans resilience and belonging
🪶 Intergenerational prophecies
🚀 Positively reviewed by Locus!
Read it now: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
2/
strangehorizons.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
If you're nominating for the Rhysling, Nebula, or Hugo, I hope you'll consider some of my queer, dark, fantastical poetry!
Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.
Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.
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"We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement."
Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR
Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement."
Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR
Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR
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My latest piece in the Regret issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social when I thought, 'I could make the guest editor @aijiang.bsky.social cry' www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-t...
In This Exchange of Names, I Say Please
I am sure we were meant to be friends, but you see, you came too late. In kindergarten, I was the awkward child trying to hold the classmates’ hands at recess. I mouthed their words along with them…
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January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
My latest piece in the Regret issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social when I thought, 'I could make the guest editor @aijiang.bsky.social cry' www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-t...
really thrilled to be apart of this! Super thankful to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and of course to @pseudopod.org, who originally pubbed “Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession” (the story is exactly what it sounds like)
We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025!
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, Table of Contents! — tenebrous press
The Weird Fiction scene is as healthy now as it's ever been, and I think this collection—our fourth!—might have the broadest appeal yet. Much as Tenebrous continues to evolve, so has our selections pr...
tenebrouspress.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
really thrilled to be apart of this! Super thankful to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and of course to @pseudopod.org, who originally pubbed “Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession” (the story is exactly what it sounds like)
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Ahhh, huge congrats to @audreyzhou.bsky.social, @muteddragon.bsky.social, and all the amazing winners!! 💀🎉
We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025!
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird.
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July.
Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/47f6tt48
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, Table of Contents! — tenebrous press
The Weird Fiction scene is as healthy now as it's ever been, and I think this collection—our fourth!—might have the broadest appeal yet. Much as Tenebrous continues to evolve, so has our selections pr...
tenebrouspress.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Ahhh, huge congrats to @audreyzhou.bsky.social, @muteddragon.bsky.social, and all the amazing winners!! 💀🎉
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Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!
January 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!
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Shoveling snow & then all the phone notifications. Responding is difficult with numb fingers!
All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight.
Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST
All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight.
Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST
Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of her authors! SILK &
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
January 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Shoveling snow & then all the phone notifications. Responding is difficult with numb fingers!
All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight.
Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST
All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight.
Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST
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Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of her authors! SILK &
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
January 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of her authors! SILK &
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.
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New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠
Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine
When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...
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January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠
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hello once again I am miserably attempting self-promotion while the world is on fire but maybe you wil enjoy this story about being so queer you can kill god
New story up at GNS:
A thousand years ago, a man became a god. Now, the king sends his daughter to die three times in hopes to wake as something new & dreadful.
Read “The Last God of Talam Dor” by M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/the-last-god-of-talam-dor/
A thousand years ago, a man became a god. Now, the king sends his daughter to die three times in hopes to wake as something new & dreadful.
Read “The Last God of Talam Dor” by M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/the-last-god-of-talam-dor/
The Last God of Talam Dor - GigaNotoSaurus
Content Warning: religiously motivated ableism and homophobia, both internalized and external; self-harm; and depictions of ritual sacrifice including drowning, hanging, and burning, not very graphic....
giganotosaurus.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
hello once again I am miserably attempting self-promotion while the world is on fire but maybe you wil enjoy this story about being so queer you can kill god
I love all of Claire’s work but there is an extra special place in my heart for Abstraction🫶go read her stories!!
what I did in 2025! I'm very proud of the year I had, and would love if you checked any of my stories out, I've linked some below :D
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 AM
I love all of Claire’s work but there is an extra special place in my heart for Abstraction🫶go read her stories!!
so gorgeous and also broke my heart please read!! your life will change
New story day!!! I can’t even tell you how much this one means to me. It’s the first short story I wrote, the story of my heart. I’ll find better words later, but… for now I will just say thank you to GNS for giving this one a home, and thank you to anyone who takes the time to read it, too. 🖤
New story up at GNS:
A thousand years ago, a man became a god. Now, the king sends his daughter to die three times in hopes to wake as something new & dreadful.
Read “The Last God of Talam Dor” by M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/the-last-god-of-talam-dor/
A thousand years ago, a man became a god. Now, the king sends his daughter to die three times in hopes to wake as something new & dreadful.
Read “The Last God of Talam Dor” by M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/the-last-god-of-talam-dor/
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 AM
so gorgeous and also broke my heart please read!! your life will change
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I'm also eligible for the Astounding! My first pubbed story, The Last Flesh Figure Skaters) is still very dear to my heart, and still represents a lot of what's important to me as a storyteller (and with sapphic cyberpunky rivalry)
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
The Last Flesh Figure Skaters
The first time I saw you, you laced up your skates, adjusted your knee mods, and I was just another unremarkable face as you fluttered to the ice. My mother snapped at me to watch you, but it was like...
www.khoreomag.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
I'm also eligible for the Astounding! My first pubbed story, The Last Flesh Figure Skaters) is still very dear to my heart, and still represents a lot of what's important to me as a storyteller (and with sapphic cyberpunky rivalry)
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...
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what I did in 2025! I'm very proud of the year I had, and would love if you checked any of my stories out, I've linked some below :D
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
what I did in 2025! I'm very proud of the year I had, and would love if you checked any of my stories out, I've linked some below :D