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Shirley Chan is writing a memoir
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CNF and textile art girlie. Uses the f-word in every way possible. Switches between sarcastic & painfully sincere without warning. 💁🏻‍♀️ irleywrites.com
oh great, a class A mansplainer jumped on my comment in a random LinkedIn thread 🙅🏻‍♀️

how do I say fuckoff in corporate speak?
May 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
you don’t need chatGPT i will hallucinate and talk a lot if you ask me questions
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
why do White House press briefings feel like being bullied in high school 😩
April 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
asking my parents if they’re luxury goods cuz they were made in China
April 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
LinkedIn is my new Twitter and Facebook, I can’t explain it
April 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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BOTH of my chapbooks are now available to order!

They even feature my photography as their covers 🖤

Thanks so much to CutBank Books and @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for believing in these projects!

www.allisonfieldbell.com/books
February 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today on LinkedIn, I described the tech industry as a bunch of coked up hamsters running faster and faster on the same giant hamster wheel in order to ship more AI features, and that was my act of resistance for the day.

🐹🎡🐹
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New: training AI to take vacations on our behalf 🥲
"I feel like making art has been simultaneously undervalued and yet cordoned off as a luxury activity."

lots to think about in @dianaruzova.bsky.social's excellent interview with @rosiebrand.bsky.social in @thecreativeindependent.com today!

thecreativeindependent.com/people/artis...
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Okayyy back on Bluesky to gently shift off other social media!

What. What’s happening?
April 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
i’m reading a piece that (among many other amazing things) demonstrates the power of a simple credit:
1. explains a concept with words of an expert
2. shows research by writer

it’s not the main thing about this essay, but it stood out ❤️

sonorareview.com/2022/06/26/i...
December 4, 2023 at 6:39 PM
excited to see submissions coming in for The ASP Bulletin!!

we are open until Dec 25 so burn those holiday calories by umm, typing furiously on your keyboard and high fiving yourself for sharing your work 🥰

@alansquirepub

theaspbulletin.com/submissions/
November 29, 2023 at 9:18 PM
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The ASP Bulletin will open for general subs on Monday, November 27th! @irleywrites.bsky.social, @cameronecclarke.bsky.social, Liz Hazen, @nazbk.bsky.social, and Ashley Espinoza are eagerly awaiting your work!!

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Home - Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
"These works are rich with searing meditations, stunning lines, and compelling endings that lived with us long after the first reading. The poets below have a
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November 21, 2023 at 5:18 PM
great writers steal

into your chest

incubate

burst out when the transformation is complete in the host body
November 16, 2023 at 4:58 PM
just thinking about the mundane parts of the multiverse… like oh, this email was meant for me in a different reality, weird *deletes
November 14, 2023 at 6:43 PM
BEYOND excited to share this news with all the talented writers i know and invite you to submit work!! our new reading period is opening soon!
We have NEWS!!

Our new senior creative nonfiction editor is @irleywrites.bsky.social!

Shirley Chan has been published in HAD, Longleaf Review, Paranoid Tree, Roi Fainéant, and other publications. She is currently writing a joyful memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant.
November 13, 2023 at 11:30 PM
one of the hardest parts of writing is saying no to plans that are more proveable 🥲 i think it hurts people’s feelings, but also i want to create art that evolves me in the process, and that takes cocoon time
November 5, 2023 at 4:54 PM
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For the night crowd: @irleywrites.bsky.social is a gifted memoirist and I'm lucky she wanted to contribute to the first issue of @major7mag.bsky.social. Don't miss her take on Coldplay's "Yellow"
"I swim across to reach him. When he crumbles and cries, I am there to hold him. We are in a swell of time where what he needs and what I yearn to give are the same. We connect."

Now playing: "Yellow" • Coldplay ( @irleywrites.bsky.social )
www.major7mag.com/post/yellow-...
"Yellow" • Coldplay (by Shirley Chan)
"I am there to hold him. We are in a swell of time where what he needs and what I yearn to give are the same. We connect."
www.major7mag.com
October 24, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape founded to collect the scraps of consciousness you connect to your favourite songs. We work in flash — fiction, CNF, poetry, essay, comics, and more — and today we go live.

Now Playing: Volume 1
www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
Literary Mixtape Vol. 1
Thank you for giving a fuck enough to read this.
www.major7mag.com
October 22, 2023 at 7:15 PM
what is the German word for the very specific form of imposter syndrome that kicks in after a piece is accepted & you wait for the journal to write again to say oops wrong writer jkjk 🥺

anyhoodle expect mysterious updates until I finally believe it 💗
October 9, 2023 at 8:57 PM
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Closing out your Tuesday with our ol' elusive pal, CNF. This little snippet is from "Release Me" by Shirley Chan @irleywrites.bsky.social and it'll grab hold of you for sure. Go see for yourself. It's live now!

www.roifaineantpress.com/post/release...
October 3, 2023 at 8:41 PM
i’m imagining experiencing Star Wars fresh in this order and I WISH

…this is totally why i’m into segmented essays 😌
She went 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6 and it's amazing
October 3, 2023 at 12:29 AM
holy shit that would be amazing… just rebuild actual Twitter here 😂
October 3, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Monday mood: meeting up with a demon and getting trapped 👿

‘Release Me’ is live in the newest issue from Roi Fainéant
Morning!
What are you going head to head with today?
Tête-à-Tête 48 is live.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

As always, RF would like to thank its wonderful roundup of contributors to this issue - couldn’t do any of it without ya! ❤️❤️
October 2, 2023 at 11:52 PM
Alicia Keys files trademark to launch a line of honey called ‘Alicia Bees.’

@vinnythomas.bsky.social
October 1, 2023 at 7:52 PM
this piece is catharsis for me 🖤 I’m honored to share it soon as part of a journal I love
Yippee it’s Thursday mid morning with Friday on the horizon and we are pleased to provide a little snip of CNF that sound like the beginning of a joke..but it isn’t. “Release Me”. Shirley Chan @irleywrites.bsky.social is in Tête-à-Tête 48. Get the ‘punchline’ on Sunday 10/1.
September 28, 2023 at 10:50 PM