Chris Kouju Koh
@ckohwrites.bsky.social
Chinese father, Sino-Kadazan mother, I write fantasy and reinterpret #Malaysia and #Borneo myths 🇲🇾 🇱🇺 🇧🇳
Editor & ex-Journalist of 10 years
SFWA member, ADHD, 🏳️🌈 Ally | 🚫AI
Malaysian Creatives starter pack here! https://go.bsky.app/Q8517ww
Editor & ex-Journalist of 10 years
SFWA member, ADHD, 🏳️🌈 Ally | 🚫AI
Malaysian Creatives starter pack here! https://go.bsky.app/Q8517ww
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Chris Kouju Koh
@ckohwrites.bsky.social
· Mar 13
(Updated) So many exciting projects for 2025!
- #shortstory per month pledge (5/12)
- #Malaysia #fantasyfic collection (2/12)
- fun mannerpunk erotica w/
@winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social
- (hopefully) research trip to Malaysia later this year
- medium.com/@ckohwrites
#amwriting #writingcommunity
- #shortstory per month pledge (5/12)
- #Malaysia #fantasyfic collection (2/12)
- fun mannerpunk erotica w/
@winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social
- (hopefully) research trip to Malaysia later this year
- medium.com/@ckohwrites
#amwriting #writingcommunity
How to stay humble in an Asian family:
Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine."
Mum: "Were you paid?"
Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250."
Mum: "Peanuts!"
#writerslife #keepbelieving
Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine."
Mum: "Were you paid?"
Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250."
Mum: "Peanuts!"
#writerslife #keepbelieving
August 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
How to stay humble in an Asian family:
Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine."
Mum: "Were you paid?"
Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250."
Mum: "Peanuts!"
#writerslife #keepbelieving
Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine."
Mum: "Were you paid?"
Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250."
Mum: "Peanuts!"
#writerslife #keepbelieving
Interesting bathroom PSA in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It is nice to know that if I am on fire, someone will kick in the door to rescue me
August 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Interesting bathroom PSA in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It is nice to know that if I am on fire, someone will kick in the door to rescue me
August 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@zoeyhedman.bsky.social Guess what I brought to read on the plane? Your story is next! ^^ @aanpress.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@zoeyhedman.bsky.social Guess what I brought to read on the plane? Your story is next! ^^ @aanpress.bsky.social
Interesting selection of airport reading in the duty-free store. Ofc Stephen King and some regulars are there XD
August 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Interesting selection of airport reading in the duty-free store. Ofc Stephen King and some regulars are there XD
Woot. After two months of prep and recovery from the move to Chicago, am finally flying back to Malaysia today. Hope I survive! Pan mee, chee cheong fun, hailam chicken rice, Tuaran mee, here I come!! 🤤
August 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Woot. After two months of prep and recovery from the move to Chicago, am finally flying back to Malaysia today. Hope I survive! Pan mee, chee cheong fun, hailam chicken rice, Tuaran mee, here I come!! 🤤
Most random thing my spouse said: "Lex Luthor has a shapely head"
#superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot
#superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot
August 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Most random thing my spouse said: "Lex Luthor has a shapely head"
#superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot
#superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot
Settling into the new apartment, and pumped at earning my SEO certificate yesterday. Zooming in now on African culture, driving license and writing new articles on Medium next~
July 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Settling into the new apartment, and pumped at earning my SEO certificate yesterday. Zooming in now on African culture, driving license and writing new articles on Medium next~
Today is apparently day one of a heatwave in Chicago, of all things I forgot and decided to bake banana and chocolate muffins 😜
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today is apparently day one of a heatwave in Chicago, of all things I forgot and decided to bake banana and chocolate muffins 😜
Now that I've settled in a new city, I start looking through open calls for submission. Then I stumble across one from Taco Bell Quarterly.
Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD
Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD
June 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Now that I've settled in a new city, I start looking through open calls for submission. Then I stumble across one from Taco Bell Quarterly.
Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD
Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD
Moving into our Chicago flat. Waiting for the movers to bring our stuff. The living room floor will never be as clean as it is now
June 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Moving into our Chicago flat. Waiting for the movers to bring our stuff. The living room floor will never be as clean as it is now
"The Poop Rule is the latest decluttering trend right now!"
Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑
Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑
June 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"The Poop Rule is the latest decluttering trend right now!"
Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑
Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑
Chicago is inspiring!
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Chicago is inspiring!
I was 'pressured' to order something called a Route 44 cold brew coffee. Look at the size of it! 😯
May 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I was 'pressured' to order something called a Route 44 cold brew coffee. Look at the size of it! 😯
Still on my great road trip from Austin to Chicago, and was thrilled to be able to find a Malaysian restaurant near Dallas! It was so lovely to talk to fellow Malaysians at Malacca Cafe, and eat satay, roti bakar, teh tarik, and kon lau wan tan mee again
May 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Still on my great road trip from Austin to Chicago, and was thrilled to be able to find a Malaysian restaurant near Dallas! It was so lovely to talk to fellow Malaysians at Malacca Cafe, and eat satay, roti bakar, teh tarik, and kon lau wan tan mee again
Super excited to see my favourite writing software @ellipsus.com has introduced yet another amazing theme in celebration of Pride month! I especially love Ellipsus' themes Forest and Dark for inspiration for my 3am jottings (I swear I'm not sponsored XD)
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Super excited to see my favourite writing software @ellipsus.com has introduced yet another amazing theme in celebration of Pride month! I especially love Ellipsus' themes Forest and Dark for inspiration for my 3am jottings (I swear I'm not sponsored XD)
@indraladypotato.bsky.social What, you live? XD
May 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@indraladypotato.bsky.social What, you live? XD
For breakfast from a hotel stove, a buttery Abraham Lincoln-Frankenstein French toast topped with chopped strawberries for sweetness. I forgot to bring the sugar, don't judge me XD
May 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For breakfast from a hotel stove, a buttery Abraham Lincoln-Frankenstein French toast topped with chopped strawberries for sweetness. I forgot to bring the sugar, don't judge me XD
669 words written, in the dark of a pitch black hotel room while my family sleeps, or tries to. Not much but I'm proud to type something~
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
May 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
669 words written, in the dark of a pitch black hotel room while my family sleeps, or tries to. Not much but I'm proud to type something~
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
Super proud my flashfic got into the longlist of Fractured Literary Anthology 5 by @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! Didn't make it for the shortlist but still feeling pumped and grateful. Poured a lot of my soul into my little fic & apparently received some praise too ^^ fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...
fractured lit anthology 5 prize - Fractured
judged by Tara Isabel Zambrano December 01 to February 02, 2025 Add to Calendar submit This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We are eagerly reading your stories! Time to sen...
fracturedlit.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Super proud my flashfic got into the longlist of Fractured Literary Anthology 5 by @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! Didn't make it for the shortlist but still feeling pumped and grateful. Poured a lot of my soul into my little fic & apparently received some praise too ^^ fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...
First stressful stage of moving house is done and more to go, but wanted to share how proud I am for my story to be included in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Can't wait to get back to normal schedule in the new place and writing 🙂
May 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
First stressful stage of moving house is done and more to go, but wanted to share how proud I am for my story to be included in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Can't wait to get back to normal schedule in the new place and writing 🙂
Have been crazy chaotic busy the last few weeks because moving next month to another state. Anyone have any house moving tips? And a strong pair of arms?? 🤪
April 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Have been crazy chaotic busy the last few weeks because moving next month to another state. Anyone have any house moving tips? And a strong pair of arms?? 🤪
Reposted by Chris Kouju Koh
"Our Dust Earth" is set to ship to AaN Central on Friday. Copies will go in the mail to KS backers next week, followed by preorders. If you would like to preorder a copy yourself of our SF anthology and included micro RPG - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
March 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Our Dust Earth" is set to ship to AaN Central on Friday. Copies will go in the mail to KS backers next week, followed by preorders. If you would like to preorder a copy yourself of our SF anthology and included micro RPG - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
Me typing random names in LibGen for authors whose work Meta stole from, and uses to train AI: Hey! I know some of these names!
@singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social
@singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Me typing random names in LibGen for authors whose work Meta stole from, and uses to train AI: Hey! I know some of these names!
@singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social
@singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social