Guan Un
@thisisguan.bsky.social
Aurelias-nominated writer of speculative short stories. Words in Levar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy and many more. Australian/Chinese via Malaysia. Sentence enthusiast. Dumplingmancer. Look at you all mythicalogical.
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My story came out in Worlds of Possibility, and the ever-amazing @omgjulia.bsky.social put all the 2025 stories in a FREE ebook, because that's just how they roll 💙 You can get it here: www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
February 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
My story came out in Worlds of Possibility, and the ever-amazing @omgjulia.bsky.social put all the 2025 stories in a FREE ebook, because that's just how they roll 💙 You can get it here: www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
Wanna read an excellent story?
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
Remember Me in the Meat by Sarah Pauling
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Wanna read an excellent story?
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
@sarahpauling.bsky.social's new story is out in Clarkesworld: it's about universal cloud memory in every brain, memory cultists, and an assassin who can go underneath it all.
I was lucky enough to beta-read it and haven't stopped thinking about it.
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Heyyyy I'm raffling off a couple of tiny knitted creatures--hand-knit by yours truly--to raise funds for community aid organizations. That's right: you can own your very own wee knit beastie and help your community at the same time! Deets are in my latest newsletter:
buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...
buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...
A Raffle
I want to talk about writing and words. But first things first. As I write this, it’s a frigid morning. Snow is piled in huge drifts outside the window....
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January 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Heyyyy I'm raffling off a couple of tiny knitted creatures--hand-knit by yours truly--to raise funds for community aid organizations. That's right: you can own your very own wee knit beastie and help your community at the same time! Deets are in my latest newsletter:
buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...
buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...
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Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer.
Here are a few simple links.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell
Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Here are a few simple links.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell
Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
January 23, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer.
Here are a few simple links.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell
Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Here are a few simple links.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell
Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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WELCOME GUAN UN!
@thisisguan.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
@thisisguan.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
WELCOME GUAN UN!
@thisisguan.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
@thisisguan.bsky.social will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. See cool art, crowdfund exclusives, and other exciting details here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”?
THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*!
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✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*!
✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
January 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”?
THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*!
✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*!
✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
I have a reprint out today with the wonderful folks at Small Wonders! Heed the warning, and don't read it out loud.
We have a science fiction horror piece from Guan Un today, and we urge you not to read "Take Root" aloud. For your own safety. For all our sakes.
Take Root - Small Wonders
This is my last report on the loss of transmission from the radio outpost on Ganymede 13.
smallwondersmag.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I have a reprint out today with the wonderful folks at Small Wonders! Heed the warning, and don't read it out loud.
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Hi #PortfolioDay 👋🏽 Queer disabled artist in Southeast Asia open for work on cover art & illustrations for adult, YA, kidlit SFFH & literary projects.
I specialize in hand-drawn 2D with nature-centric, whimsical themes. Folio & commission bookings: bydhiyanah.carrd.co 💖
#SupportArtists #art #artists
I specialize in hand-drawn 2D with nature-centric, whimsical themes. Folio & commission bookings: bydhiyanah.carrd.co 💖
#SupportArtists #art #artists
January 14, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Hi #PortfolioDay 👋🏽 Queer disabled artist in Southeast Asia open for work on cover art & illustrations for adult, YA, kidlit SFFH & literary projects.
I specialize in hand-drawn 2D with nature-centric, whimsical themes. Folio & commission bookings: bydhiyanah.carrd.co 💖
#SupportArtists #art #artists
I specialize in hand-drawn 2D with nature-centric, whimsical themes. Folio & commission bookings: bydhiyanah.carrd.co 💖
#SupportArtists #art #artists
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Art-making is immersive for the body-mind. It's important to take time understanding what accommodations you need to show up for sustained practice.
Let routines vary. Get ergonomic tools. Keep your fave art supplies stocked. Make time for rest & activities that counter physical/mental strain 🌸
Let routines vary. Get ergonomic tools. Keep your fave art supplies stocked. Make time for rest & activities that counter physical/mental strain 🌸
ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Art-making is immersive for the body-mind. It's important to take time understanding what accommodations you need to show up for sustained practice.
Let routines vary. Get ergonomic tools. Keep your fave art supplies stocked. Make time for rest & activities that counter physical/mental strain 🌸
Let routines vary. Get ergonomic tools. Keep your fave art supplies stocked. Make time for rest & activities that counter physical/mental strain 🌸
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Thanks for the outpouring of kindness, folks. If you want to do something to perk me up? Well, you could pre-order my dragon book! www.amazon.com/Dragon-Has-S...
The Dragon Has Some Complaints
Amazon.com: The Dragon Has Some Complaints: 9780756420499: Wiswell, John: Books
www.amazon.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Thanks for the outpouring of kindness, folks. If you want to do something to perk me up? Well, you could pre-order my dragon book! www.amazon.com/Dragon-Has-S...
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DRUM ROLL!!!! 🥁🥁🥁
It gives me great pleasure to announce the SPARKLING longlist for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026.
Congratulations to all the writers on this list. And commiserations to everyone else. The standard was incredibly high:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the SPARKLING longlist for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026.
Congratulations to all the writers on this list. And commiserations to everyone else. The standard was incredibly high:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
Welkin News | MattKendrick.co.uk
A writing prize open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 AM
DRUM ROLL!!!! 🥁🥁🥁
It gives me great pleasure to announce the SPARKLING longlist for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026.
Congratulations to all the writers on this list. And commiserations to everyone else. The standard was incredibly high:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the SPARKLING longlist for the Welkin Writing Prize 2026.
Congratulations to all the writers on this list. And commiserations to everyone else. The standard was incredibly high:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
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Sigh, particularly bummed about the world today; sending you all strength. Here's latest newsletter, though I'm sure like me, you're probs sad, too buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...
Creativity is constant adolescence, and I’m sorry for that
A few workshops, and a pep talk: Creativity is constant adolescence, and I'm sorry for that
buttondown.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Sigh, particularly bummed about the world today; sending you all strength. Here's latest newsletter, though I'm sure like me, you're probs sad, too buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...
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we are so proud of all we did in 2025!
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we are so proud of all we did in 2025!
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
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god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
January 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
god help me someone asked what i'm looking for in short fiction. how do i say: horror but not like that, questions without answers, short, and fucking weird. the thing that makes good short fiction to me is that the final act of the story is in your head, not on the page
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Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today.
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
PORTRAIT OF YOU IN FIVE PSYCHICS by Kirsti MacKenzie
First guy says: you’re gonna see a UFO. Like, BOOM. He lays this on me. Right now you’re probably thinking well, if that doesn’t torpedo the whole thing for you. But it didn’t. Okay? It didn’t. I sat ...
xraylitmag.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Without further ado, here are my favorite stories of 2025, to give you something to read today.
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
Other than my two favorites, these are in chronological order.
My FAVORITE story of 2025 was this one by @keersteemack.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...
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It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
A gift to end 2025 — Worlds of Possibility Volume 2!
This second volume collects short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles from the August 2023 to June 2025 issue run of Worlds of Possibility.
www.juliarios.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
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Thanks, John! The ebook and audiobook of Mercutio can be pre-ordered now for their May 7 release (not sure yet what the print release date in the US will be). One cool thing is that it opens with a battle scene where Mercutio meets Dante Alighieri, and Dante actually did fight in that battle.
Mercutio|eBook
From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered Book and The Valkyrie comes an opulent 13th century epic retelling of the life of Mercutio before he ever encountered Romeo and Juliet. O...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thanks, John! The ebook and audiobook of Mercutio can be pre-ordered now for their May 7 release (not sure yet what the print release date in the US will be). One cool thing is that it opens with a battle scene where Mercutio meets Dante Alighieri, and Dante actually did fight in that battle.
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For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
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It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/
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this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡
”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.”
www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...
”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.”
www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
this perfect piece of spec fic in @astrolabe.ooo by @thisisguan.bsky.social in honour of his birthday. One of my favourite pieces this year. And by an Aussie too 🇦🇺🧡🧡🧡
”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.”
www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...
”It’s hard to see her in the dark but you can still hear her song like a hook in your spine.”
www.astrolabe.ooo/un-sorrow-fo...
It's my birthday today!
If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story.
<3
If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story.
<3
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's my birthday today!
If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story.
<3
If you'd like to do something for my birthday, I'd love you to support SFF short fic in some way—subscribe to a mag (probably cheaper than you think), leave a review, tell a friend about a story you loved, tell a writer you loved their story.
<3
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Ahem
One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ahem
One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
One of my short stories was published this year--a thread by the worst person in your high school. I am exceedingly proud of this. You can buy/read it here, in the fifth issue of Archive of the Odd, with a bunch of other amazing found fiction: archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
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Also here is a pep talk for you. “Get thee a hobby that can’t be monetized” buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc... bonus content includes straight up bragging about my knits
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Also here is a pep talk for you. “Get thee a hobby that can’t be monetized” buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc... bonus content includes straight up bragging about my knits
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One day left on this ridiculous sale! Get the audiobook of the Nebula-winning Someone You Can Build A Nest In narrated by the amazing Carmen Rose for just $2.41!
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on mu...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
One day left on this ridiculous sale! Get the audiobook of the Nebula-winning Someone You Can Build A Nest In narrated by the amazing Carmen Rose for just $2.41!
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My eligibility list this year!
HONEYEATER (novel — variously described as fantasy, gothic, folk horror, horror) bsky.app/profile/tana...
&
“In Connorville” (short story) reactormag.com/in-connorvil...
HONEYEATER (novel — variously described as fantasy, gothic, folk horror, horror) bsky.app/profile/tana...
&
“In Connorville” (short story) reactormag.com/in-connorvil...
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!
Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My eligibility list this year!
HONEYEATER (novel — variously described as fantasy, gothic, folk horror, horror) bsky.app/profile/tana...
&
“In Connorville” (short story) reactormag.com/in-connorvil...
HONEYEATER (novel — variously described as fantasy, gothic, folk horror, horror) bsky.app/profile/tana...
&
“In Connorville” (short story) reactormag.com/in-connorvil...