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Elena Zhang
@ezhang77.bsky.social
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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
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...
The Moon, My Heart (Elena Zhang) | Tiny Wren Lit
Evocative micro-poems inspired by Chinese folklore
www.tinywrenlit.com
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krmorris.bsky.social
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 💐
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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captantagonist.bsky.social
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
March 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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adrianf.bsky.social
@havehashad.com skull #12!

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
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ktonbsky.bsky.social
yaaaay for a 💀& thank you to @ezhang77.bsky.social!

~ excited for my (un)memory/🐦‍⬛/🍋 prose poem to come out into the world
February 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Sent all my responses! This was so fun and also very very hard! Thanks for playing! <3
ezhang77.bsky.social Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
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
February 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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lexikentmonning.bsky.social
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
ezhang77.bsky.social
Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 17h
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...
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
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
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Elena Zhang
havehashad.com
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...
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
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 Open to interpretation! Go back three seconds. Jump forward 1,000 years. Freeze time, melt it, condense it, stretch it out. Is someone too early? Are you too late? Make me laugh. Make me cry. Make me shriek. (Make me all three?) Bonus if there is a bird (I like birds). Max 200 words Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200) The shorter the better — Elena Zhang
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
This is today! I’m excited! Please send me something!
ezhang77.bsky.social Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
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
February 15, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Elena Zhang
kcmeadbrewer.com
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
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lacroixboi.dadguy.help
if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words
February 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Reddish egrets
Two reddish egrets sketched in colored pencil
February 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · 2d
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 Open to interpretation! Go back three seconds. Jump forward 1,000 years. Freeze time, melt it, condense it, stretch it out. Is someone too early? Are you too late? Make me laugh. Make me cry. Make me shriek. (Make me all three?) Bonus if there is a bird (I like birds). Max 200 words Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200) The shorter the better — Elena Zhang
February 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Elena Zhang
kossworks.bsky.social
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...
pie illustration/logo with red background and promotional text for gooseberry pie 40~
February 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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leovongripsholm.bsky.social
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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kcmeadbrewer.com
I've got some ghosts & writing games for you! 🦇⚡
ruadanbooks.bsky.social Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Writers, discover the secret, seething garden and honor Creature's memory: @kcmeadbrewer.com's lyrical set of games will transform how you think about and approach writing.

Find "The Eleventh Ghost" now:
links.ruadanbooks.com/mead-brewer

#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky
Photograph of a weathered wall with an arched door opening into a lush green garden. The bottom of the photograph features an inset author photo of K.C. Mead-Brewer, and text reading "The Eleventh Ghost" and "Thoughts from the Writer's Desk" alongside the Ruadán Books logo. Read the essay at links.ruadanbooks.com/mead-brewer.
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Continuing to inflict everyone with my dumb doodles
Long tailed tit bird sketched with colored pencil
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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ezhang77.bsky.social
Cupcakes and birds
Cherry cupcake and tufted titmouse, raspberry cupcake and redpoll bird, sketched in colored pencil
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Could also be banana boat
Bird on moon boat in river sketched in colored pencil
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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mynachang.bsky.social
MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang!

I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!!

@marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social
Cool Stuff for 2026!
I’ve wanted to include more speculative poetry in my roundups, so I’m excited to announce that MicroVerse will have four dedicated poetry editions in 2026. And the best part is the guest editors wh…
mynachang.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Cupcakes and birds
Cherry cupcake and tufted titmouse, raspberry cupcake and redpoll bird, sketched in colored pencil
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Elena Zhang
ezhang77.bsky.social
Albatross chick
Albatross chick sketched in colored pencil
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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neonpajamas.bsky.social
Elaine Equi

@elaineequi.bsky.social / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
CLOWN It was an exciting thing for a guy like him to become a clown overnight. For a while, he was quite a success. You wouldn't believe how many people saw him. Only he didn't know any games or funny things to say. He would just show up at kids' parties looking weird and sit there.
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 PM
ezhang77.bsky.social
Albatross chick
Albatross chick sketched in colored pencil
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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bedubble.bsky.social
Cob shot
Cob shot aka river city from below
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM