Andrew Zubiri
@zubiri.bsky.social
✍🏽 in AGNI, Threepenny Review, Ninth Letter, World Literature Today, Consequence, and elsewhere.
Pls see https://linktr.ee/andrewzubiri
Pls see https://linktr.ee/andrewzubiri
Overwhelmed by Cuteness? There’s a Word for That. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...
Oxford Dictionary Adds New Words, Including ‘Gigil’ for Extreme Cuteness
The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.
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March 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Overwhelmed by Cuteness? There’s a Word for That. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...
has anyone encountered an "after (personal) essay" similar to an "after poem"? As much as possible I want to avoid mentioning the original text in my essay's body bec it will break the narrator's character.
March 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
has anyone encountered an "after (personal) essay" similar to an "after poem"? As much as possible I want to avoid mentioning the original text in my essay's body bec it will break the narrator's character.
found my name in libgen for a journal article I've totally forgotten abt. brb adding my h-index on my author website...
March 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
found my name in libgen for a journal article I've totally forgotten abt. brb adding my h-index on my author website...
thanks for coming to our grubstreet class last night @gracelp.bsky.social! brought me some clarity and maybe i'm working on a hybrid thing after all!
March 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
thanks for coming to our grubstreet class last night @gracelp.bsky.social! brought me some clarity and maybe i'm working on a hybrid thing after all!
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
my speculative climate essay was included in GrubStreet's' Our Planet Our Stories anthology 🙏🏽 You can read the full collection here: grubstreet.superhumane.net/pdfs/GrubStr...
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
my speculative climate essay was included in GrubStreet's' Our Planet Our Stories anthology 🙏🏽 You can read the full collection here: grubstreet.superhumane.net/pdfs/GrubStr...
are things any better here?🤞🏽
January 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
are things any better here?🤞🏽
essays for my collection-in-progress (or whatever it is i’m writing) are in various stages of polish. took stock of them today and realized i just hit ~50,000 words🥹
December 31, 2024 at 1:14 AM
essays for my collection-in-progress (or whatever it is i’m writing) are in various stages of polish. took stock of them today and realized i just hit ~50,000 words🥹
Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...
Opinion | Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age
There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between supper and bedtime.
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December 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...
Pls read GrubStreet's anthology, Our Planet, Our Stories, where my speculative essay "Ten Years After Typhoon Haiyan, I Forgot to Tweet About the Disaster" is included. Thanks 🙏🏽
grubstreet.org/blog/grubstr...
grubstreet.org/blog/grubstr...
GrubStreet | GrubStreet Presents "The Our Planet, Our Stories"…
The nation's leading and largest center for creative writing for over 25 years, GrubStreet offers classes and events for writers from all stages and…
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December 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Pls read GrubStreet's anthology, Our Planet, Our Stories, where my speculative essay "Ten Years After Typhoon Haiyan, I Forgot to Tweet About the Disaster" is included. Thanks 🙏🏽
grubstreet.org/blog/grubstr...
grubstreet.org/blog/grubstr...
big 'Uyyy, Pilipins!!' moment 🇵🇭
Congratulations, Sofronio! 🥳👏
Filipino singer and "Tawag Ng Tanghalan" alumnus Sofronio Vasquez was hailed as the champion of “The Voice USA" Season 26. | via MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News
(Courtesy: NBC's The Voice/Instagram)
Filipino singer and "Tawag Ng Tanghalan" alumnus Sofronio Vasquez was hailed as the champion of “The Voice USA" Season 26. | via MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News
(Courtesy: NBC's The Voice/Instagram)
December 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
big 'Uyyy, Pilipins!!' moment 🇵🇭
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“Brain rot” has been named 2024 Word of the Year by the Oxford University Press.
Oxford’s Word of the Year Is ‘Brain Rot’
A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”
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December 1, 2024 at 11:23 PM
“Brain rot” has been named 2024 Word of the Year by the Oxford University Press.
binge watched culinary class wars and i got so inspired i went to h-mart. now reheating my japchae ❤️
December 1, 2024 at 11:08 PM
binge watched culinary class wars and i got so inspired i went to h-mart. now reheating my japchae ❤️
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Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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November 26, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
again, hello world 👋🏽
November 26, 2024 at 12:19 AM
again, hello world 👋🏽
working with an editor is so weird. it's like i don't know you and you don't know me but we will work hard together to polish this little gem of words. and i think that's beautiful.
November 4, 2023 at 2:10 PM
working with an editor is so weird. it's like i don't know you and you don't know me but we will work hard together to polish this little gem of words. and i think that's beautiful.
i'm floored and very excited to share VQR accepted my essay (with photos!) for their Winter 2023 issue.
November 2, 2023 at 11:04 AM
i'm floored and very excited to share VQR accepted my essay (with photos!) for their Winter 2023 issue.
Nobody:
My phone ringing: 2 8 * 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 8 8 8 2 8 8 8 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3
What's was yours? #iykyk
My phone ringing: 2 8 * 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 8 8 8 2 8 8 8 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3
What's was yours? #iykyk
October 27, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Nobody:
My phone ringing: 2 8 * 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 8 8 8 2 8 8 8 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3
What's was yours? #iykyk
My phone ringing: 2 8 * 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 8 8 8 2 8 8 8 4 * * # 7 2 * 3 6 * * 1 * # 2 9 7 8 * * 2 * 4 # 5 7 * * 4 * # 3 2 4 * * # 7 2 * 3
What's was yours? #iykyk
started watching Ozark on a whim this past weekend and now i can't stop 🧽
October 23, 2023 at 4:03 PM
started watching Ozark on a whim this past weekend and now i can't stop 🧽
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ICYMI, applications are OPEN for Rooted and Written, a fully-funded writers conference by and for writers of color in the Bay Area. Deadline: Oct. 16. Please apply and spread the word!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Bluesky friends: Rooted and Written, a dedicated, fully-funded writing conference by and for writers of color, is coming up from Nov. 4-12 in San Francisco! If interested, please join the mailing list so you can be informed as soon as applications open!! (Oh btw I might be teaching at this 😉)
October 2, 2023 at 6:43 PM
ICYMI, applications are OPEN for Rooted and Written, a fully-funded writers conference by and for writers of color in the Bay Area. Deadline: Oct. 16. Please apply and spread the word!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Nonfictioneers! YOUR DAY HAS ARRIVED! We are now open for essay collections, memoirs, and nonfiction-hybrid book manuscripts thru Dec 1! We love to see imaginative essays, autofictions, fictionalized memoirs, lyric essaying, formal and layout-based experimentation! Link to submit is in our tree ❤️
October 1, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Nonfictioneers! YOUR DAY HAS ARRIVED! We are now open for essay collections, memoirs, and nonfiction-hybrid book manuscripts thru Dec 1! We love to see imaginative essays, autofictions, fictionalized memoirs, lyric essaying, formal and layout-based experimentation! Link to submit is in our tree ❤️
gasped when i saw a copy of Threepenny at Brookline Booksmith. flipped it over to check if this issue really has my name on the front cover 😂
September 26, 2023 at 11:09 PM
gasped when i saw a copy of Threepenny at Brookline Booksmith. flipped it over to check if this issue really has my name on the front cover 😂
The books I'm currently reading are matchy-matchy. 🍂 The unmarked cover is Ha Jin's The Writer as Migrant.
September 24, 2023 at 6:15 PM
The books I'm currently reading are matchy-matchy. 🍂 The unmarked cover is Ha Jin's The Writer as Migrant.
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I can't attend because of the time difference that would make me attend sessions at midnight-early morning for several days, but maybe others would be interested
We're offering 12 scholarships for our 2024 Winter Online Workshop, including our Without Borders scholarship, which is intended for any writer who was born outside of the United States.
Learn more and apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
Learn more and apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
September 14, 2023 at 8:13 AM
I can't attend because of the time difference that would make me attend sessions at midnight-early morning for several days, but maybe others would be interested