Vanessa Hua
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming COYOTELAND
Starting tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 3. Come play!
A couple spots left for my online workshop next week (November 3-7, 4-6 pm Pacific.) Come write with me and generate new work before the whirlwind of the holidays! fawc.org/fawc-online/...
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Starting tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 3. Come play!
A couple spots left for my online workshop next week (November 3-7, 4-6 pm Pacific.) Come write with me and generate new work before the whirlwind of the holidays! fawc.org/fawc-online/...
October 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A couple spots left for my online workshop next week (November 3-7, 4-6 pm Pacific.) Come write with me and generate new work before the whirlwind of the holidays! fawc.org/fawc-online/...
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Congratulations to Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social!
🎉Thrilled to publish debut nonfiction UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE by @vanessahua.bsky.social — Spring 2027!
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations to Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social!
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🎉Thrilled to publish debut nonfiction UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE by @vanessahua.bsky.social — Spring 2027!
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎉Thrilled to publish debut nonfiction UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE by @vanessahua.bsky.social — Spring 2027!
Dream come true!! 🌿
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Dream come true!! 🌿
Cover reveal: From coyote to… COYOTELAND, coming May 2026! I can’t stop staring at this electrifying cover by the talented Claire Sullivan. 🙏 Pls consider pre-ordering from your favorite independent bookstore or requesting from the library!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
September 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Cover reveal: From coyote to… COYOTELAND, coming May 2026! I can’t stop staring at this electrifying cover by the talented Claire Sullivan. 🙏 Pls consider pre-ordering from your favorite independent bookstore or requesting from the library!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Kick off fall! A couple spots left, come join me online next Tuesday (9/9)
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Kick off fall! A couple spots left, come join me online next Tuesday (9/9)
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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“Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.”
—Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social
—Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.”
—Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social
—Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social
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On Sept. 9, join @vanessahua.bsky.social for this two-hour online class, Writing Across Cultures.
We’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity. #writingcommunity
We’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity. #writingcommunity
PJ Seminar: A Master Class on Writing Across Cultures with Vanessa Hua - StoryStudio Chicago
We'll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
On Sept. 9, join @vanessahua.bsky.social for this two-hour online class, Writing Across Cultures.
We’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity. #writingcommunity
We’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity. #writingcommunity
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@vanessahua.bsky.social -Her work has shed a light on Asian issues and the diaspora. She is a great supporter and role model for #AAPI writers. @sewaneewriters.bay.social #authors #writingcommunity
July 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@vanessahua.bsky.social -Her work has shed a light on Asian issues and the diaspora. She is a great supporter and role model for #AAPI writers. @sewaneewriters.bay.social #authors #writingcommunity
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Thrilled to dig into some of the faculty books I picked up at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social. Wonderful to workshop with @eula.biss and Amy Leach. @vanessahua.bsky.social @jailthepoets.bsky.social. Meeting other writers transforms how you read their work and how you see your own.
August 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thrilled to dig into some of the faculty books I picked up at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social. Wonderful to workshop with @eula.biss and Amy Leach. @vanessahua.bsky.social @jailthepoets.bsky.social. Meeting other writers transforms how you read their work and how you see your own.
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Happy publication day to @victorsuth.bsky.social's HOLLOW SPACES! ✨
✨ An Apple Books best book of August
✨ "Cerebral, sexy, and provocative." — Lo Patrick, author of THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT
✨ "Fast-paced and suspenseful." — @vanessahua.bsky.social, author of FORBIDDEN CITY
✨ An Apple Books best book of August
✨ "Cerebral, sexy, and provocative." — Lo Patrick, author of THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT
✨ "Fast-paced and suspenseful." — @vanessahua.bsky.social, author of FORBIDDEN CITY
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy publication day to @victorsuth.bsky.social's HOLLOW SPACES! ✨
✨ An Apple Books best book of August
✨ "Cerebral, sexy, and provocative." — Lo Patrick, author of THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT
✨ "Fast-paced and suspenseful." — @vanessahua.bsky.social, author of FORBIDDEN CITY
✨ An Apple Books best book of August
✨ "Cerebral, sexy, and provocative." — Lo Patrick, author of THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT
✨ "Fast-paced and suspenseful." — @vanessahua.bsky.social, author of FORBIDDEN CITY
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"Like love, like bankruptcy, like sleep, the wild swings happened slowly, then all at once."
This time last year, we published the flash piece FORECAST by @vanessahua.bsky.social . Her story was selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Revisit it in our archives: buff.ly/SaqJgWO
This time last year, we published the flash piece FORECAST by @vanessahua.bsky.social . Her story was selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Revisit it in our archives: buff.ly/SaqJgWO
June 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Like love, like bankruptcy, like sleep, the wild swings happened slowly, then all at once."
This time last year, we published the flash piece FORECAST by @vanessahua.bsky.social . Her story was selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Revisit it in our archives: buff.ly/SaqJgWO
This time last year, we published the flash piece FORECAST by @vanessahua.bsky.social . Her story was selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Revisit it in our archives: buff.ly/SaqJgWO
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The Split Lip FAM’s work over the past two months has been sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always important. Take a moment to enjoy this batch of good news and great publications from our community. buff.ly/zQNZ5yN
April 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Split Lip FAM’s work over the past two months has been sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always important. Take a moment to enjoy this batch of good news and great publications from our community. buff.ly/zQNZ5yN
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The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.
💙📚
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@vanessahua.bsky.social
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.
💙📚
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@vanessahua.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.
💙📚
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@vanessahua.bsky.social
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.
💙📚
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@vanessahua.bsky.social
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Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
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Hi folks, I’m teaching with @onestorymag.bsky.social again this spring. RTs appreciated. Thank you!
Register today for our Beginner Fiction Workshop with @rchetypes.bsky.social author of the novel DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA.
In this six-week workshop, each participant will workshop a short story or novel excerpt. bit.ly/4hiMWB6
In this six-week workshop, each participant will workshop a short story or novel excerpt. bit.ly/4hiMWB6
March 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hi folks, I’m teaching with @onestorymag.bsky.social again this spring. RTs appreciated. Thank you!
Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
March 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
gay.submittable.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
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VAST Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social ♥️🥳
Time for some good news! We are thrilled to announce that Vanessa Hua’s flash, “Forecast,” has been selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Congratulations, @vanessahua.bsky.social ! https://buff.ly/3WqCFus
February 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
VAST Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social ♥️🥳
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Today at SLM we're reading contributor @vanessahua.bsky.social 's thoughtful, urgent article on the history of American birthright citizenship in @sfchronicle.bsky.social . Read it here: https://buff.ly/3Qp0sYp
February 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today at SLM we're reading contributor @vanessahua.bsky.social 's thoughtful, urgent article on the history of American birthright citizenship in @sfchronicle.bsky.social . Read it here: https://buff.ly/3Qp0sYp
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@vanessahua.bsky.social has me choked up and heart-clutched with Forecast. Losing the fog, that bodily experience of the lowering sky, is one of the great worries I have about what we are almost guaranteed to lose in a heating world. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...
Forecast — Split Lip Magazine
After the weather turned, so did we. For many, the end of fog led to the end of patience. Though we’d heard the cool grey city might become sun-bleached as Seville by the end of the century, someday h...
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February 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@vanessahua.bsky.social has me choked up and heart-clutched with Forecast. Losing the fog, that bodily experience of the lowering sky, is one of the great worries I have about what we are almost guaranteed to lose in a heating world. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...
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Read Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social's latest on the SF Chronicle.
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Read Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social's latest on the SF Chronicle.