Claire W. Zhang
@clairewzhang.bsky.social
Short story writer. Editor at The Baltimore Review.
New fiction out on hobartpulp —Uzo will forever remain the most chill editor in the online lit mag world www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
Do People Not Talk About Their Dreams Anymore? by Claire W. Zhang
I dreamed that you apologized to me. Like, who still talks about dreams anymore? Everyone knows they represent either what you want but can’t get, or something about sex, or, really, they’re just the ...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New fiction out on hobartpulp —Uzo will forever remain the most chill editor in the online lit mag world www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
Have you ever reacted strongly to an online conversation that you’re better off not get involved? Like you think you know the subject matter but not the context? I find myself constantly in that situation and have to remind myself YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN EVERY DISCOURSE CHILL
August 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Have you ever reacted strongly to an online conversation that you’re better off not get involved? Like you think you know the subject matter but not the context? I find myself constantly in that situation and have to remind myself YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN EVERY DISCOURSE CHILL
Read the BR’s summer 25 issue on our website, or join us in Brooklyn to hear our contributors read their work live!
A party in Brooklyn! August 22 at 8. The Living Gallery. BR's Claire Zhang hosting.🥳
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Read the BR’s summer 25 issue on our website, or join us in Brooklyn to hear our contributors read their work live!
Sat 8/16, 1pm, I’m hosting a free reading event, under the banner of [Code Zebra](don’t ask), as part of the first Asian indie music festival in NYC, with a killer lineup.
And make sure to stick around for the music right after the reading with some of my favorites hitting the stage.
Come hang!
And make sure to stick around for the music right after the reading with some of my favorites hitting the stage.
Come hang!
August 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Sat 8/16, 1pm, I’m hosting a free reading event, under the banner of [Code Zebra](don’t ask), as part of the first Asian indie music festival in NYC, with a killer lineup.
And make sure to stick around for the music right after the reading with some of my favorites hitting the stage.
Come hang!
And make sure to stick around for the music right after the reading with some of my favorites hitting the stage.
Come hang!
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An essay I penned this past week on the Chinese plagiarism scandal, the “Lucifer’s gift,” and gatekeeping in just any literature world, etc.
An essay I penned this past week on the Chinese plagiarism scandal, the “Lucifer’s gift,” and gatekeeping in just any literature world, etc.
The Writing World Is Full of Cowards
Claire W. Zhang
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July 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
open.substack.com/pub/beyondcr...
An essay I penned this past week on the Chinese plagiarism scandal, the “Lucifer’s gift,” and gatekeeping in just any literature world, etc.
An essay I penned this past week on the Chinese plagiarism scandal, the “Lucifer’s gift,” and gatekeeping in just any literature world, etc.
Found some vignettes I wrote back in summer 2020 and was bummed to realize most still rings true if we substitute Palestine for Covid (and the Dows had plummeted 10% just a month ago).
May 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Found some vignettes I wrote back in summer 2020 and was bummed to realize most still rings true if we substitute Palestine for Covid (and the Dows had plummeted 10% just a month ago).
Reposted by Claire W. Zhang
Introducing Spring 2025 Issue 45.1 of the Pinch. Get your copy to enjoy excellent fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. Swipe to see a couple of the artwork from the issue. The issue is available for purchase on our website pinchjournal.com/print
April 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Introducing Spring 2025 Issue 45.1 of the Pinch. Get your copy to enjoy excellent fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. Swipe to see a couple of the artwork from the issue. The issue is available for purchase on our website pinchjournal.com/print
Forgot to promote this due to our Asia trip—my flash work from ‘21 has finally found home in the Spring volume of @pinchjournal.bsky.social When I wrote this I didn’t expect it still relevant in today’s world but here we are. Stay strong my visa friends and allies. It can’t always be like this.
April 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Forgot to promote this due to our Asia trip—my flash work from ‘21 has finally found home in the Spring volume of @pinchjournal.bsky.social When I wrote this I didn’t expect it still relevant in today’s world but here we are. Stay strong my visa friends and allies. It can’t always be like this.
International students (many are Chinese) have been reported to have their f1 visas suddenly revoked and face deportation for…doing nothing wrong. Some have participated in activism. More have not. Apparently we are now all “alien enemies.”
If you ever wondered what you would have done in World War II when Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps—now you know. It’s what you’re doing now.
April 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
International students (many are Chinese) have been reported to have their f1 visas suddenly revoked and face deportation for…doing nothing wrong. Some have participated in activism. More have not. Apparently we are now all “alien enemies.”
AWP? I’m writing Emma Brown (22F)’s revenge romance: walk into a job interview and find out her interviewer is Henry Lee James (27M), the ex she hates with passion. “I see you still use your job to feel taller.” “Ouch.” “I’ll offer you your dream job…on one condition.” Let’s go chapter novel.
March 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
AWP? I’m writing Emma Brown (22F)’s revenge romance: walk into a job interview and find out her interviewer is Henry Lee James (27M), the ex she hates with passion. “I see you still use your job to feel taller.” “Ouch.” “I’ll offer you your dream job…on one condition.” Let’s go chapter novel.
Every time I check Duotrope and see an 800-day rejection or a $23 submission fee, I channel my spite into my reader’s queue for the two mags I read for. Don’t think this writer-journal ecosystem deserves any saving, but there’s always some fish left on the beach that cares.
March 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Every time I check Duotrope and see an 800-day rejection or a $23 submission fee, I channel my spite into my reader’s queue for the two mags I read for. Don’t think this writer-journal ecosystem deserves any saving, but there’s always some fish left on the beach that cares.
And this is the first of the trilogy from last year - still fresh. Thank you NWWQ for publishing my debut story two days after it was written.
From our most recent issue, a piece we love by Claire W. Zhang @clairewzhang.bsky.social: newworldwriting.net/claire-zhang...
February 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And this is the first of the trilogy from last year - still fresh. Thank you NWWQ for publishing my debut story two days after it was written.
If you want to know how much an American groupie boy would pay to see Kim Jong Un, read the piece. This is also the second of my North Korea Trilogy (unofficial).
February 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you want to know how much an American groupie boy would pay to see Kim Jong Un, read the piece. This is also the second of my North Korea Trilogy (unofficial).