claire jia-wen
@clairejiawen.bsky.social
avid grocery shopper | clarion 2025 | vp 2024 | codex | words in clarkesworld + khoreo
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new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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Posting a reminder bc I never talk Abt my work all that much, but I recently had a story out in Uncanny!! Abt a greiving lesbian and her starship stranded under the body of a dying space whale ~
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
Whale Fall of Yours - Uncanny Magazine
Notebooks, Conchas, y Un Café con Leche Those are the items that make up your world the day the girl with the side buzz and brown bomber jacket says to you, in the back of a crowded cafetería, “Explíc...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Posting a reminder bc I never talk Abt my work all that much, but I recently had a story out in Uncanny!! Abt a greiving lesbian and her starship stranded under the body of a dying space whale ~
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/whal...
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2025 Awards Eligibility
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
I had five stories come out this year -
if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend.
(My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing)
www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...
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Okay, okay, I give in, it’s 2025 awards eligibility time! I still have December stories coming, which means I cannot yet bring myself to make an extra-fancy graphic or a full long thread, but… until then, I hope you’ll consider reading some of my stories! Will link a couple favorites in the 🧵 (1/4)
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Okay, okay, I give in, it’s 2025 awards eligibility time! I still have December stories coming, which means I cannot yet bring myself to make an extra-fancy graphic or a full long thread, but… until then, I hope you’ll consider reading some of my stories! Will link a couple favorites in the 🧵 (1/4)
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New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
The House of Illusionists – Vanessa Fogg, Writer
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November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New pinned post: My debut collection of short stories, The House of Illusionists, is now officially out.
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
vanessafogg.com?page_id=1020
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰
#booksky #ThePoetEmpress
#booksky #ThePoetEmpress
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
They are giving away 50 copies of my debut, The Poet Empress, on goodreads! I hope you'll enter 🥰
#booksky #ThePoetEmpress
#booksky #ThePoetEmpress
the probability of any of my stories being drafted to the spotify playlist 'frat songs that could resurrect me' is low but never 0
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
the probability of any of my stories being drafted to the spotify playlist 'frat songs that could resurrect me' is low but never 0
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New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.
Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.
benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...
Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.
benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...
Analog Negotiations & Short Story Sale: Recognition, Memory » Benjamin C. Kinney - still pruning...
Successful negotiations with Must Read Magazines & Analog SF, who will publish my science fiction short story "Recognition, Memory."
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October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher.
Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.
benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...
Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate.
benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...
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very honored to have a short story in this anthology and extremely excited to be in such company❤️do check SILK & SINEW and the other works on this list out!!
New York Public Library names SILK & SINEW in Best New #Horror List for 2025!!!
Thank you #NYPL for this incredible honor. It means so much to be recognized by the best people-- #librarians! Contributors, YOUR words have given us the most amazing, fabulously bloody, 3-legged crow wings!!
Thank you #NYPL for this incredible honor. It means so much to be recognized by the best people-- #librarians! Contributors, YOUR words have given us the most amazing, fabulously bloody, 3-legged crow wings!!
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
very honored to have a short story in this anthology and extremely excited to be in such company❤️do check SILK & SINEW and the other works on this list out!!
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The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
watched the lion king musical and my shit was rocked
October 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
watched the lion king musical and my shit was rocked
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The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE!
Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE!
Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
honored to be among such incredible company! i loved @angelaliu.bsky.social and @awprihandita.bsky.social's stories, and can't wait to check out the rest
My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
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Short fiction recs! July and August 2025
It’s the last day of September, and this round-up is way overdue. Some things I read and loved in July and August. Strange Tales o...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
honored to be among such incredible company! i loved @angelaliu.bsky.social and @awprihandita.bsky.social's stories, and can't wait to check out the rest
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In case you need a story about two people who don’t quite fit in anywhere who find each other, here’s my time traveler love story.
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Time is an Ocean
The time traveler arrives at the door with a broken time machine and a promise: “If you let me stay, I’ll take you wherever you want.”
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September 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In case you need a story about two people who don’t quite fit in anywhere who find each other, here’s my time traveler love story.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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I can't tell you all enough how enduring, heart-aching and beautiful @clairejiawen.bsky.social latest story is in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
Toxic yuri, giant mechs, but at the heart of it, a story of giving in to the system if it means you won't be alone
"I draw; the machine makes monsters."
Toxic yuri, giant mechs, but at the heart of it, a story of giving in to the system if it means you won't be alone
"I draw; the machine makes monsters."
Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You by Claire Jia-Wen
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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September 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I can't tell you all enough how enduring, heart-aching and beautiful @clairejiawen.bsky.social latest story is in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
Toxic yuri, giant mechs, but at the heart of it, a story of giving in to the system if it means you won't be alone
"I draw; the machine makes monsters."
Toxic yuri, giant mechs, but at the heart of it, a story of giving in to the system if it means you won't be alone
"I draw; the machine makes monsters."
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it’s been two weeks today since my newest story came out, and I’m still not over it:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/
Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins by Louis Inglis Hall
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
it’s been two weeks today since my newest story came out, and I’m still not over it:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/
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“Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You” by @clairejiawen.bsky.social sees the lead pulled between career, sister, and lover, with fraught decision-making and excellent interpersonal tension clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25
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September 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You” by @clairejiawen.bsky.social sees the lead pulled between career, sister, and lover, with fraught decision-making and excellent interpersonal tension clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25
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hello im back with my first story since uhhhhh that one with the holes. this isnt like that. except in the ways that a portal is a hole. or perhaps. the entire ocean.
A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light-years away.
"Freediver" by @isabel.kim is out now at Reactor!
reactormag.com/freediver-is...
"Freediver" by @isabel.kim is out now at Reactor!
reactormag.com/freediver-is...
Freediver - Reactor
A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light years away.
reactormag.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
hello im back with my first story since uhhhhh that one with the holes. this isnt like that. except in the ways that a portal is a hole. or perhaps. the entire ocean.
so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world
Happy to announce that we've acquired "In the Wake of Whales" by @clairejiawen.bsky.social for FF#28!
Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.
Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.
September 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world
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The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!
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September 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!
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changed my life
new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
changed my life
misassembling ikea furniture should get you disqualified from adulting, i feel like i just fell through a hole in the simulation
September 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
misassembling ikea furniture should get you disqualified from adulting, i feel like i just fell through a hole in the simulation
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Ok, somehow this week I've sold stories to two (!!) of my dream markets, so:
I hope you'll read "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World" in @smallwondersmag.com later this year & "Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up at the Club" in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social early next! 🪩🛸
I hope you'll read "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World" in @smallwondersmag.com later this year & "Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up at the Club" in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social early next! 🪩🛸
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ok, somehow this week I've sold stories to two (!!) of my dream markets, so:
I hope you'll read "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World" in @smallwondersmag.com later this year & "Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up at the Club" in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social early next! 🪩🛸
I hope you'll read "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World" in @smallwondersmag.com later this year & "Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up at the Club" in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social early next! 🪩🛸
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"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com
Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine
To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek, away from the hard light of the moon at its roundest, away from the snow-flecked wind, away from the ba...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com