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Melissa Ren
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SFF & literary | Chinese-Canadian
Tin House | senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social | publicity @psychopomp.com

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Got my contributor copy from Grain Magazine. So thrilled to have my Chungking Express inspired story titled THE SAME KIND OF in the latest issue. 🥰
Copy of Grain Magazine
April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Well played CBC, well played.

(also, it me.)
a screenshot on CBC of a still from Something's Gotta Give of Diane Keaton sobbing. The caption in the screen shot reads: Diane Keaton applying for a grant, probably. (Something's Gotta Give/Columbia Pictures)
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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@psychopomp.com made it official. First launch down. 🎉

With @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains in conversation with @undertow.bsky.social.
Michael Kelly from Undertow sits with Premee Mohamed. Projected on a screen is the cover of Premee's collection, One Message Remains.
March 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The Rumpus is selling this mug and i think it's perfect
white ceramic mug that says "write like a motherfucker" in the shape of a heart
February 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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newsletter drop!

open.substack.com/pub/melissar...
promo image for The Compendium by Melissa Ren. image text: Let's slow things down Oh, how I wish I could pause time. I'm opening up to editing services. And I'm looking for POC authors to feature. 👀
December 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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i got a few shorts eligible for the auroras this year!

oh, and these are eligible for other award things too! read it all here 🥰 bio.site/award
Melissa Ren award eligibility listed for the Aurora Awards. The Memory Shop by Melissa Ren in Fusion Fragment; We Play In Meadows, We Hop Over Dreams by Melissa Ren in DreamForge; A Húlíjīng Always Keeps One Tail Hidden by Melissa Ren i n Parsec Inc, Triangulation 2024: Hospitium; The Midnight Diyu by Melissa Ren in Factor Four; The Look of Seconds by Melissa Ren in Wyldblood; Of Interstice by Melissa Ren in Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature (Mind’s Eye Publications)
December 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Agree or disagree? 👀
Maggie Stiefvater wrote a comment that says 'You're allowed one eye roll a book and this ain't it'
November 26, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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I wrote a story about memory erasure, and if the desires within us ever really leave.

Does erasing our worst memories help us heal?

Read what happens in THE MEMORY SHOP.

www.fusionfragment.com/issue-20/
Promo image for THE MEMORY SHOP, a short story by Melissa Ren
November 16, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Awwwww thanks @angelaliu.bsky.social for sending me a copy! Please go read Angela's heartbreaking story about motherhood, regret, and the desire for wanting more for the ones your love ♥️

This one broke me 🥺
Cover of LOGIC(S) Title page for Before We Were Born by Angela Liu
November 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Back from world fantasy con with these amazing books in tow! 🥰

@afsulli.bsky.social
@vajra.me
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
@zalikarb.bsky.social
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera Countess by Suzan Palumbo River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta
October 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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I'm hosting a ✨Books & Brews✨ at WFC, a small intimate chat up to 10 ppl, where you can ask me anything about @augurmag.bsky.social, @psychopomp.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social, or anything!

Pre-registration required. Sign up 👇! See you in Niagara! 🚀

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Melissa Ren at World Fantasy Con in Niagara Falls, NY from October 17 - 20, 2024. Books & Brews on October 18, 3-4 p.m. Sign up required. Non-European Fantasy & Horror panel on October 18, 4-5 p.m.
October 10, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Heading to WFC?
I'm paneling & hosting a literary beer (like a kaffeeklatsch but w/any drink of choice, alcoholic or not!). ✨Sign up on Oct 9✨limit of 10! Ask me anything about @augurmag.bsky.social (we're open to subs!) or marketing for @psychopomp.bsky.social or @tinhouse.bsky.social or anything!
Melissa Ren at World Fantasy Con. Literary Beer on Oct 18, 3-4 p.m. sign up required. Non-European Fantasy & Horror panel on Oct 18, 4-5 p.m.
October 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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ICYMI my cozy wuxia-inspired fantasy about magical stars and tempting fate is free to read on @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social

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promo image for Melissa Ren's We Play in Meadows, We Hop Over Dreams
October 3, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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I'll be paneling this Saturday at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social on Folklore From All Corners about folktales from across the world.

Register to attend at flights-of-foundry.org
Folklore From All Corners panel at Flights of Foundry on Saturday September 28 at 11 a.m. ET.
September 23, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Show me a picture in your phone that has your energy, not a selfie
Person holding two martini glasses with coffee lids on top in a take out tray in one hand, and a brick phone in the other.
September 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Ohhhh... I'll be paneling and moderating and kaffeeklatsching this fall. Deets to come!
Melissa Ren fall events. Flights of Foundry, World Fantasy Con, and Can*Con.
September 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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One year ago today @factorfourmagazine.com published my first SFF story, DEAR POH POH 🥰

It's been helluva year... Immense gratitude 🙏

factorfourmag.com/dear-poh-poh...
May 1, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Got my contributor copy of @fusionfragment.bsky.social 🥰

Looking so so good!
March 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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✨ AURORA AWARDS ELIGIBILITY ✨

It's my first eligible year! If you're voting, I'd love if you considered my short story DEAR POH POH published in @factorfourmagazine.com about a bad ass grandma who can see beyond ppl's deceitful ways

You can read it here:
factorfourmag.com/dear-poh-poh...
Award Eligibility for Melissa Ren. Short Story "Dear Poh Poh" published in Factor Four Magazine
March 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Got a little micro about a tiger grandma in the latest themed issue of Big Wing Review exploring relationships ✨🥰

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March 16, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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I'm doing a reading tonight over on zoom! 😬

zoom.us/j/94479342751
February 12, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Tonight's mood
February 2, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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So this happened
January 26, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to be in the final issue of Wizards In Space. What a dope magazine 💞
December 9, 2023 at 5:52 PM
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Got a micro out with Twenty-two Twenty-Eight about desire, obsession and infatuation. 💋

www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/single-post/...
November 29, 2023 at 1:54 PM