tina s. zhu
@tinazhu.bsky.social
writer/fairytale nerd ✨ tinaszhu.com ✨read me in Reactor/tordotcom, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, monkeybicycle ✨Assistant Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
hello friends, Romans, countrymen, I am back in Lightspeed with a new story about unhinged teenage girls www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl - Lightspeed Magazine
We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement. Her mom was one of those chill Asian moms who liked having an artsy-fartsy daughter she could brag about at Bible study. She was already pushing ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
hello friends, Romans, countrymen, I am back in Lightspeed with a new story about unhinged teenage girls www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...
Me and Seed Sheself
I been wid dis woman since she was small, and now is like we shell casing break in two, in three. First ting I remember from being wid she is hearing she little girl voice. So close it make me vibrat...
www.khoreomag.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We are heartbroken to hear about the passing of Celeste Rita Baker, a wonderful writer and human. It was our joy and privilege to publish her story “Me and Seed Sheself” in our magazine in 2022. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones, may she rest in peace. www.khoreomag.com/fiction/me-a...
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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November submissions are OPEN!
The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!
We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!
We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
November submissions are OPEN!
The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!
We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!
We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
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📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
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ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
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okay i made a spreadsheet ✨ i picked mostly randomly authors/venues i've been wanting to read more of docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
okay i made a spreadsheet ✨ i picked mostly randomly authors/venues i've been wanting to read more of docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
CHLORINE x ROGUE
In order to join a girlboss cult to climb the corporate ladder, Lillian has a choice—wreck what’s left of her family or ruin her budding relationship with the cult leader.
ft:
🦊1 ghostly fox
💔2 toxic sapphics
🧍♀️3 complicated sisters
#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC
In order to join a girlboss cult to climb the corporate ladder, Lillian has a choice—wreck what’s left of her family or ruin her budding relationship with the cult leader.
ft:
🦊1 ghostly fox
💔2 toxic sapphics
🧍♀️3 complicated sisters
#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!
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Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN!
2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.
Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions
Hails🖤☠️
2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.
Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions
Hails🖤☠️
August 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN!
2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.
Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions
Hails🖤☠️
2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.
Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions
Hails🖤☠️
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i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚
ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...
ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...
July 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚
ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...
ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...
Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :)
maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...
maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...
July 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :)
maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...
maudlinhouse.net/the-pop-star...
I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!
Exciting News!! ✨ We have promoted 🌟 super stars 🌟 Tina Zhu, Michael Simonds, and Molly Andrea-Ryan to Assistant Fiction Editor! We are over the moon about this news! Thank you for all you do for SLM & the literary community, Tina, Michael, & Molly! 😘
June 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!
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Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!)
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
![EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)
The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)
Monsters in the Mills, edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels (IP [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd])
The White Guy Dies First, edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Publishing Group)
Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (Cursed Morsels Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ln5gb77zyqmqvkilb3vubuk/bafkreibw7gmshkaggggmfodvdyzwm7mo4dev5iynysc6i5ha2fia3hdhty@jpeg)
June 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!)
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
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1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
June 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈📚
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the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down
Dashes are very normal parts of written English and are "AI tells" mostly because they were left off default keyboard configurations and thus are annoying to type in casual writing relative to how often they're used in professional writing.
June 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
the em dash has grown in popularity over the last 20 years or so and is thus over represented in the data sets they trained the fraud machine on and now we are supposed to tell people to stop using them because they were finding them useful, it's idiocy all the way down
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OK let's do this.
I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.
I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.
I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
Undercover in the Apocalypse
Covert dispatches from Sam J. Miller on craft, community, and surviving nightmare times.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
OK let's do this.
I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.
I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
I wanted to do a newsletter that felt fresh and fun to me, and "Undercover in the Apocalypse" is that creature - an epistolary science fiction story addressed to an army of shadow operatives.
I hope you'll join me on this covert mission.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
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"The day the women collectively lost their heads again, you could see them in the streets"
Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush
www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...
Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush
www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...
Heads by Tina S. Zhu – Cease, Cows
www.ceasecows.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"The day the women collectively lost their heads again, you could see them in the streets"
Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush
www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...
Love this from @tinazhu.bsky.social - using the surreal to reflect the real in such a clever way, all written in a brilliant breathless rush
www.ceasecows.com/2024/02/08/h...
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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!!! so psyched to be an Astounding Award finalist this year!
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
!!! so psyched to be an Astounding Award finalist this year!
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D
Delighted to see such a great group of fellow nominees and it's awesome to be short fiction buddies on the ballot with @angelaliu.bsky.social :D