please PLEASE read this, it’s very gorgeous and also very devastating

"The Moon Carver" has never been available online before. It's part of my upcoming collection, THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES. Thank you to the Sunday Morning Transport for this publication.

Amazing, congratulations! We loved this one too 😁 pseudopod.org/2025/03/21/p...

the anthology is out on July 14th! Thrilled to be in such good company❤️👻 (ideally not of the demonic possession kind)

Happy to see my @apexmag.bsky.social story “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood” reviewed by @tarvolon.bsky.social alongside some great older short fiction (it also makes my little black heart happy to see people reading more horror 👀). www.tarvolon.com/2026/04/02/m...

A really gorgeous story full of quiet longing, about family and societal pressure, duty, taking control of one's own destiny, and dragons - Underneath the Underneath by @audreyzhou.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I've got a new story online now at @talesfeathers.bsky.social! After a couple of bleak and gruesome publications in a row from me, this one is the opposite, probably the sweetest thing I will ever write: a tender little sapphic love story set in a world where poetry is (literally) magic 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

The cover art for FF#28 by @carlydraws.bsky.social has arrived! FF#28 will have work by @estrubbe.bsky.social @awritingwall.bsky.social @sophiecasarico.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @audreyzhou.bsky.social @tuesdaywrites.bsky.social and Francis Van Ganson!

I’m in here twice! For a story that “goes beyond ‘dark academia’ into ‘outright horror academia’” plus another about “what it means to risk it all for something as frail and powerful as human love.” I could almost pass as someone who has range! It’s not ALL sad women in the woods!

ICYMI! my story about reproductive freedom and dragons is out now🐉

Underneath the Underneath  by Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social "Dragons are not violent by nature, but they hunt what hunts them." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

i got to beta this story and its so so good, an entire exercise about being surprising and inevitable. pls read.

Couldn't be prouder--I'm new to staff, but a longtime fanboy of SH 💜

“It was hard to choose which story to feature, since I liked all of them” ‼️ We are HONORED (which is code for screaming in excitement) by this shout-out and thrilled to see “The Homeowner’s Bride” by @ayidashonibar.bsky.social featured in this incredible lineup! You can read this story right here:

new story day! This story about reproductive freedom, women + their networks of care, and dragons has been living in my head for a while now, and I’m so grateful to Austin and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for helping it come to fruition💗

new story day! This story about reproductive freedom, women + their networks of care, and dragons has been living in my head for a while now, and I’m so grateful to Austin and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for helping it come to fruition💗

Incredibly honored by this generous description of “The Last God of Talam Dor” (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) as “a devastatingly powerful story about love and faith.” Means a lot to see this one recommended. You can find it here: giganotosaurus.org/2026/01/01/t...

😍 🔥🔥🔥 CONGRATULATIONS @geneveflynn.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Ecstatic to see TWO of SILK & SINEW's contributors nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Poetry, Short Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories! ♥️AND congrats to wonderful friend & cheerleader @ledaniels.bsky.social♥️

I can't tell you how honored I feel that the Horror Writers Association has named Bad Hand Books the recipient of this year's Specialty Press Award. It's a privilege to work with so many outstanding individuals. I can't wait to see everyone this June. bramstokerawards.horror.org/specialty-pr...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! “What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title. bookshop.org/p/books/silk...

I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

Oh wow. "Uncertain Sons," the original novelette in UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, is a Stoker finalist in the Long Fic category! Congrats to the finalists! Thanks to readers who enjoyed and shared the book. And huge thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for supporting the novelette and collection!

To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor. Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.

I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees. Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Contract signed! I'm going to be in @castofwonders.org again! This is a reprint of my @talesfeathers.bsky.social story from last year, "The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent". I'm so excited to hear what they'll do with the narration.

The full FF 2026 lineup is officially set and I can't tell you how excited I am for what we've got in store for you! We've got: -writers making their second appearances in FF! -writers you'll likely recognize from their work in other mags! -writers making their debuts in SFFH short fiction land!

GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻

They say Hugo noms are open, so just reupping. Thanks if you previously read or enjoyed any of these. No collection category, but if you liked UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, the titular novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (sans other stories) is eligible. As are other-other stories in thread. Thanks!

Eight original short stories published last year. All at wenwenwrites.wordpress.com/publications... but a favorite was in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Saltwater Mother" magazine.trollbreath.com/saltwater-mo...

sapphic fairy tale story by audrey alert 🚨

Couldn't stop thinking about this review from #LosAngelesReviewofBooks -- it does more than just review Silk & Sinew, it digs into the heart of the book and its works. Thank you Jered Mabaquiao and #LARB. Truly, what an honor. lareviewofbooks.org/article/silk... substack.com/home/post/p-...

new audrey story !!! what is the boundary between what is true and what we want to be true? and how do we blur that boundary? and also sapphic yearning

My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...

My fantasy flash is free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com as of today! It's about fairy tales (of course), but also a little about what retellings can do to a thing + the differences between what makes something a story and what makes something a truth www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...

Little jewel of a story from @audreyzhou.bsky.social free to read today! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/six-...

Going to send out a new issue of my newsletter soon. Includes my latest short story/poetry/anime recs, and this time I’m going into the backstory of one of my oldest shorts, “The Time Traveler’s Cookbook.” You can sign-up for my newsletter here: liu-angela.com/newsletter/

So reading this will change your life

I'm finally starting a newsletter! if you've ever went 'gee what does claire think about x craft thing or y industry event,' now's your chance 😄 first issue about crashing out and/or burning out is going out tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ clairejwen.substack.com

If you're nominating for the Rhysling, Nebula, or Hugo, I hope you'll consider some of my queer, dark, fantastical poetry! Check out the thread for links, and feel free to DM me if you're interested in reading a work that isn't free online.

"We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement." Assistant Fiction Editor @tinazhu.bsky.social was published in @lightspeedmagazine.com! 🔥 buff.ly/q6ir6NR

My latest piece in the Regret issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social when I thought, 'I could make the guest editor @aijiang.bsky.social cry' www.flashfictiononline.com/article/in-t...

really thrilled to be apart of this! Super thankful to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and of course to @pseudopod.org, who originally pubbed “Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession” (the story is exactly what it sounds like)

Ahhh, huge congrats to @audreyzhou.bsky.social, @muteddragon.bsky.social, and all the amazing winners!! 💀🎉

Wild. Congrats to the folks on the Stoker prelim ballot! This is a first. For the novelette that concludes the collection. Wow. My thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social!

Shoveling snow & then all the phone notifications. Responding is difficult with numb fingers! All the love to the contributors of #silkandsinewantho who made this antho so special. Your stories give me hope and life and fight. Oh & while I have your attention: Stand up, Stand together and #RESIST

Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of her authors! SILK & SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

hello once again I am miserably attempting self-promotion while the world is on fire but maybe you wil enjoy this story about being so queer you can kill god

I love all of Claire’s work but there is an extra special place in my heart for Abstraction🫶go read her stories!!