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...

Kick off fall! A couple spots left, come join me online next Tuesday (9/9) www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

“Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.” —Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social

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

@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

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.

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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.

VAST Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social ♥️🥳

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

@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...

Read Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social's latest on the SF Chronicle.

Happy book birthday @laurenmarkham.bsky.social ! IMMEMORIAL is stunning @transitbooks.bsky.social Launch party tonight! www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-mar...

Curious about the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social, want to get involved and come out and celebrate?

"If only we hadn’t been so self-serving, we might have forestalled disaster." In case you missed the news, "Forecast" by @vanessahua.bsky.social was selected for Best Microfiction 2025! Revisit this beautiful and poignant story about climate change in our archives: https://buff.ly/3VUM7qg

Study w/me! ❤ Financial aid/scholarships available • Stanford Summer Institute Online, grades 8-11, June 16—27 summerinstitutes.spcs.stanford.edu/courses/2025... • Community of Writers, Julu 7-14 communityofwriters.org/workshops/wr... • @sewaneewriters.bsky.social, July 15-27 swc.sewanee.edu

Over the moon! 🌙 Huge thanks to the visionary @splitlipthemag.bsky.social editors for believing in me and my work. Congratulations to all those selected!

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

Happy Pub Day to Homeseeking and congratulations to @karissachen.bsky.social on her debut novel being selected as the Good Morning America Book Club January pick! Chen and @vanessahua.bsky.social join us here on Friday. Details in the thread. www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/stor...

Fabulous review of @karissachen.bsky.social's HOMESEEKING by Alexis Burling. Join us for our event with Chen and @vanessahua.bsky.social one week from today, Friday, Jan. 10! Details in the thread. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/kariss...

I donated and renewed my subscription, please consider supporting this literary treasure!

I'm going to spend the next month shouting about how everyone should support bookstores everywhere. (Books make great presents! Lots of bookstores also sell other cool stuff!) But for right now, these bookstores especially need a lot of extra help. We can't do without them.

A month left to polish off your manuscript and submit to the 2nd Annual Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize! Submissions close 12/31. Guidelines and details here. wtaw-press.submittable.com/submit #writingprize #publishingopportunity #writingcommunity #indiepress #submissiondeadline #prosewriters

Climate change and longing for that San Francisco fog. Check out, “Forecast.” Flash from Vanessa Hua at Split Lip. @vanessahua.bsky.social @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...

This is still a work-in-progress starter pack, but at least it’s now starting to feel ready to share. Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices. go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q

I made a #BayArea starter pack, heavy on writers and book people. Please let me know who I've missed so I can add them! go.bsky.app/5eFo1ir

Absolutely thrilled to be among the judges for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, @aspeninstitute.bsky.social award recognizing fiction that illuminates vital contemporary issues. Which books have you read, or are planning too? www.aspenwords.org/literary-pri...

Absolutely thrilled to be among the judges for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, @aspeninstitute.bsky.social award recognizing fiction that illuminates vital contemporary issues. Which books have you read, or are planning too? www.aspenwords.org/literary-pri...

Tonight, tonight! Wednesday, 11/13

"Like love, like bankruptcy, like sleep, the wild swings happened slowly, then all at once." Heartbreaking & gorgeous @vanessahua.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...

It’s time to celebrate tiny work with a big impact! We are so thrilled to announce our nominees for the 2024 Best Microfiction: https://buff.ly/4hX0iUL Congratulations to Vanessa Hua and Claudia Monpere 🎉

wrote a love letter to dorothy allison www.autostraddle.com/dorothy-alli...

Volunteered for the very first time to cure ballots; spoke to someone serving overseas, who'd been trying to fix it online; and helped give them a phone number and the deadline. So glad to help get the vote counted!

An honored to be nominated! Thank you for publishing my work with such care and consideration. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...

For a long time I’ve been thinking about why we are so terrified a child will regret a gender transition. This essay ended up being not just about gender but about all of our identities, how they shape us and, crucially, how we shape ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...

Over the moon that my novel-in-progress has twice received recognition in the last few days: awarded a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship, as well as being selected for the Granum Prize longlist! The artists and writers here are doing such AMAZING work!

for those who enjoyed my Atlantic newsletter, I am starting a new newsletter that will be much the same, but a bit more chill (with more dog photos). lots of books + writing + a little advice if people want it. always free, no spam. 💙 you can sign up at nicolechung.net/newsletter/

Over the moon that my novel-in-progress has twice received recognition in the last few days: awarded a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship, as well as being selected for the Granum Prize longlist! The artists and writers here are doing such AMAZING work!

Endless recursion.... FORBIDDEN CITY ebook is $1.99 on Nook, Kobo, and Kindle. Impulse buy, for less than a latte! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forbidden-... www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Ci...

I haven't posted about it as much on here but I'm gonna be the series editor of Best American Food Writing 2024 onward, so if you have food writing from any North American periodical published in 2023 that you think is neat, send it to me at [email protected]!!