Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths
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Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
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Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming, Qiu Jin, Zhang Qiaohui, Xiao Xi, and Dai Wangs...
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Today is the day! The Lantern and the Night Moths, my debut book of translated modern Chinese poetry and essays on translation, is out from @invisibooks.bsky.social. I'm so excited to be able to share this book with all of you. (1/? thread)
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I do agree in principle that it's extremely necessary to have a translated Hugo (and really overdue I think)
but my stance on this, as before, is it should be inclusive of all genres, so not just fiction and prose but also poetry, and of hybrid forms
but my stance on this, as before, is it should be inclusive of all genres, so not just fiction and prose but also poetry, and of hybrid forms
So @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org has been knocking it out of the park for quite a while.
They had a very good article earlier this year on the "World" in Worldcon. It's worth reading.
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They had a very good article earlier this year on the "World" in Worldcon. It's worth reading.
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ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/23/t...
The World in Worldcon
Jake Casella Brookins In this op-ed series, ARB editors share some informal thoughts and opinions about the Hugo awards, Worldcons, and other aspects of the SFF award and convention scene. What are…
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December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I do agree in principle that it's extremely necessary to have a translated Hugo (and really overdue I think)
but my stance on this, as before, is it should be inclusive of all genres, so not just fiction and prose but also poetry, and of hybrid forms
but my stance on this, as before, is it should be inclusive of all genres, so not just fiction and prose but also poetry, and of hybrid forms
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I’m going to a workshop today about building to utopia. I refuse to let my imagination be constricted by our present which is so full of pain and oppression.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’m going to a workshop today about building to utopia. I refuse to let my imagination be constricted by our present which is so full of pain and oppression.
I finally made it back to my hometown in China after 7 years away. And among the photo albums my late uncle kept for me from my late maternal grandpa's belongings... I found a copy of his family genealogy book (now mine 😂) that traces our ancestors back to 1372 🤯
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I finally made it back to my hometown in China after 7 years away. And among the photo albums my late uncle kept for me from my late maternal grandpa's belongings... I found a copy of his family genealogy book (now mine 😂) that traces our ancestors back to 1372 🤯
Yes, I guess I have unlocked a new role as a... librettist?
Coming in 2026 😁 More news soon when I have it
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Coming in 2026 😁 More news soon when I have it
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yes, I guess I have unlocked a new role as a... librettist?
Coming in 2026 😁 More news soon when I have it
www.tangramsound.com/chronicle
Coming in 2026 😁 More news soon when I have it
www.tangramsound.com/chronicle
I have been travelling in Sichuan the past few weeks. People here laugh at me when I tell them Vancouver issues heat warnings when it gets above 30 or 35 C, but here I am looking at Chengdu issuing a cold warning that the temperature is now 4 to 7 C 🤣
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I have been travelling in Sichuan the past few weeks. People here laugh at me when I tell them Vancouver issues heat warnings when it gets above 30 or 35 C, but here I am looking at Chengdu issuing a cold warning that the temperature is now 4 to 7 C 🤣
working on a piece that critiques the exclusion of literary translators from so-called canlit, and it makes me angry but it's also cathartic 🥲
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
working on a piece that critiques the exclusion of literary translators from so-called canlit, and it makes me angry but it's also cathartic 🥲
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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No one has to repost me. Don't let that be a valid reason not to support.
Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link:
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Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link:
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
No one has to repost me. Don't let that be a valid reason not to support.
Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link:
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link:
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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nbd sobbing over this pic of a firefighter rescuing someone’s cat from the hong kong fire
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
nbd sobbing over this pic of a firefighter rescuing someone’s cat from the hong kong fire
starting the first day of my taichi training camp at Mount Qingcheng! 👊
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
starting the first day of my taichi training camp at Mount Qingcheng! 👊
What I have been up to in Chengdu: eating the most delicious Sichuanese food and snacks, visiting sites connected to the poets Du Fu and Xue Tao (especially happy about the latter because yay literary female ancestors), touring a cool temple and buildings associated with various gods of literature
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What I have been up to in Chengdu: eating the most delicious Sichuanese food and snacks, visiting sites connected to the poets Du Fu and Xue Tao (especially happy about the latter because yay literary female ancestors), touring a cool temple and buildings associated with various gods of literature
so happy to be back in Sichuan after 7 years away. i'm going to have the best food every single day for the next few weeks 😂
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
so happy to be back in Sichuan after 7 years away. i'm going to have the best food every single day for the next few weeks 😂
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
City Book Room in Singapore sold out on all the copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths they ordered for my event before I arrived XD but they're kindly taking pre-orders for more so if you want to get a copy, please check them out
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
City Book Room in Singapore sold out on all the copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths they ordered for my event before I arrived XD but they're kindly taking pre-orders for more so if you want to get a copy, please check them out
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The Lantern And The Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social and A Study In Our Selves @maxpasakorn.bsky.social 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Lantern And The Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social and A Study In Our Selves @maxpasakorn.bsky.social 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖
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Go get The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation by @yilinwriter.bsky.social !
Was great meeting up with sff and translations queer folk.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Go get The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation by @yilinwriter.bsky.social !
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I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event!
Translating In-Betweenness:
Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation
Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin
Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 4-5:30pm
City Book Room
387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02
The Modules, S427623
Translating In-Betweenness:
Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation
Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin
Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 4-5:30pm
City Book Room
387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02
The Modules, S427623
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event!
Translating In-Betweenness:
Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation
Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin
Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 4-5:30pm
City Book Room
387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02
The Modules, S427623
Translating In-Betweenness:
Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation
Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin
Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 4-5:30pm
City Book Room
387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02
The Modules, S427623
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🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested.
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I had the worst experience with a hotel ever last night, involving Habyt Chinatown in Singapore. No keys in the check-in mailbox, unreachable via emergency line, unreachable via whatsapp/text, inaccessible with really steep staircases, emergency keycard that can randomly open other guests' rooms!
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I had the worst experience with a hotel ever last night, involving Habyt Chinatown in Singapore. No keys in the check-in mailbox, unreachable via emergency line, unreachable via whatsapp/text, inaccessible with really steep staircases, emergency keycard that can randomly open other guests' rooms!
made it to Singapore last night. a lot of drama dealing with a hotel (when i went to do the self check-in, keys were missing, emergency line was unreachable, whatsapp unreachable the room number didn't even exist, and i had to rely on other people staying there to try to contact them 😱)
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
made it to Singapore last night. a lot of drama dealing with a hotel (when i went to do the self check-in, keys were missing, emergency line was unreachable, whatsapp unreachable the room number didn't even exist, and i had to rely on other people staying there to try to contact them 😱)
I have sent a letter. Please help us fight against gentrification in Vancouver's Chinatown. The space should be used for social housing, not expensive condos. share.nwmd.social/s/e4iK0k3f
Tell Premier Eby and Mayor and Council to Acquire 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer
share.nwmd.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I have sent a letter. Please help us fight against gentrification in Vancouver's Chinatown. The space should be used for social housing, not expensive condos. share.nwmd.social/s/e4iK0k3f
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llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
oh it's so gross
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
oh it's so gross