Elena Zhang
@ezhang77.bsky.social
Writer | Chicago | Work in HAD, X-R-A-Y, The Citron Review + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
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Elena Zhang
@ezhang77.bsky.social
· Aug 17
The Moon, My Heart (Elena Zhang) | Tiny Wren Lit
Evocative micro-poems inspired by Chinese folklore
www.tinywrenlit.com
My tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart,” is finally available now! So so grateful to @tinywrenlit.bsky.social and Dana Knott for making this dream come true! www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...
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"Your journey begins with…
☐ a stranger
☐ a damsel in distress
☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself
☐ all of the above..."
New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯
☐ a stranger
☐ a damsel in distress
☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself
☐ all of the above..."
New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯
So, You Think This Might Be a Fairy Tale: A Checklist by Laila Amado
Your journey begins with…
☐ a stranger
☐ a damsel in distress
☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself
☐ all of the above
Your transport of choice is…
☐ a tin on wheels
☐ ...
hexliterary.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:54 PM
"Your journey begins with…
☐ a stranger
☐ a damsel in distress
☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself
☐ all of the above..."
New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯
☐ a stranger
☐ a damsel in distress
☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself
☐ all of the above..."
New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯
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Some Lunar New Year penguins
February 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Some Lunar New Year penguins
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🐴
February 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🐴
Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🐴
February 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧🐴
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A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it!
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
Bathtub
burialmagazine.neocities.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it!
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THX 4 LOOKING! <3
Lake forever problems for now
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Lake forever problems for now
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A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler
Some Lunar New Year penguins
February 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Some Lunar New Year penguins
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CELEBRATION!!
Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for gifting me with a 💀✨
I’m so thrilled to have my latest problem with Time find a home in such a wonderful place 💐
Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for gifting me with a 💀✨
I’m so thrilled to have my latest problem with Time find a home in such a wonderful place 💐
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
CELEBRATION!!
Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for gifting me with a 💀✨
I’m so thrilled to have my latest problem with Time find a home in such a wonderful place 💐
Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for gifting me with a 💀✨
I’m so thrilled to have my latest problem with Time find a home in such a wonderful place 💐
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How to build a nested list
1) Start like this
A) Then do this
Bird: I live here now
2) Make sure to get the bird out
Bird: NO
1) Start like this
A) Then do this
Bird: I live here now
2) Make sure to get the bird out
Bird: NO
March 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
How to build a nested list
1) Start like this
A) Then do this
Bird: I live here now
2) Make sure to get the bird out
Bird: NO
1) Start like this
A) Then do this
Bird: I live here now
2) Make sure to get the bird out
Bird: NO
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@havehashad.com skull #12!
thanks @ezhang77.bsky.social !!!
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2 micro poems that I edited down from full-ass stories!!!
thanks @ezhang77.bsky.social !!!
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2 micro poems that I edited down from full-ass stories!!!
February 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
@havehashad.com skull #12!
thanks @ezhang77.bsky.social !!!
-
2 micro poems that I edited down from full-ass stories!!!
thanks @ezhang77.bsky.social !!!
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2 micro poems that I edited down from full-ass stories!!!
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yaaaay for a 💀& thank you to @ezhang77.bsky.social!
~ excited for my (un)memory/🐦⬛/🍋 prose poem to come out into the world
~ excited for my (un)memory/🐦⬛/🍋 prose poem to come out into the world
February 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM
yaaaay for a 💀& thank you to @ezhang77.bsky.social!
~ excited for my (un)memory/🐦⬛/🍋 prose poem to come out into the world
~ excited for my (un)memory/🐦⬛/🍋 prose poem to come out into the world
Sent all my responses! This was so fun and also very very hard! Thanks for playing! <3
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Sent all my responses! This was so fun and also very very hard! Thanks for playing! <3
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I scheduled my day and my baby's day around submitting to @havehashad.com and I got a skull!!!! Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social for the dope theme that gave me an idea and then for accepting my piece!
February 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I scheduled my day and my baby's day around submitting to @havehashad.com and I got a skull!!!! Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social for the dope theme that gave me an idea and then for accepting my piece!
Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
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this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...
This is today! I’m excited! Please send me something!
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 15, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This is today! I’m excited! Please send me something!
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Happy (Haunted) Valentine's Day from me & @hexliterary.bsky.social!
The Strangler's Hotel by K.C. Mead-Brewer
Zoe’s been running this place for years now, and she knows for a fact: there’s nothing sexier than a haunted house. It speaks to your every sense, even your quietest sixth one. She feels the icy littl...
hexliterary.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Happy (Haunted) Valentine's Day from me & @hexliterary.bsky.social!
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if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words
February 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions
Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social
Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better
February 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
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Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others!
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February 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others!
gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...
gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...
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links.ruadanbooks.com/mead-brewer
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I've got some ghosts & writing games for you! 🦇⚡
Continuing to inflict everyone with my dumb doodles
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Continuing to inflict everyone with my dumb doodles