Small Wonders magazine is a great place for readers and writers of flash. When my short story reading club asks for something fun and short, I usually find a story fastest here. But I may be a bit biased!

Can you guess our most-published author? We'e published many folks 3 times, a couple of folks 4 times, and just one person 5 times during our nearly 4 year run.... . . . It's Wen Wen !

Elementary and Leverage

The Hugo nomination deadline is right around the corner. My little short story about self-acceptance is a finalist for the Nebulas and I would be so honored if you considered it for the Hugos. You can read or listen here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

Huh, a lot of my characters have trouble asking for help. What a coincidence.

Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

my brain is at the mr burns oversized novelty germ door stage of near catastrophe every time i look at news of any kind

I write a character telling another character "The world isn’t going to punish you for wanting.” and then I, god-writer, punish them. I'm evil.

As an artist, I could never separate another artist from their art. Are you kidding? Art is a piece of the artist. They are inextricably linked. Please, never separate me from my art. If I ever somehow become a monster, forget my name and my creations. Let both die forever. We are one.

Coven of the East is a Foreword Indies Finalist! This genre-bending anthology features 22 writers from the Asian Diaspora, reimagining Asian Women's magical histories! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

VP2025 Valerie's got on our shirt XD

Business cards for worldcon arrived.

A few months back, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Angie & Christie Write Now podcast, and the episode is finally out! Give it a listen when you get the chance.

My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.

Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: A hungry crow answers a scream in the woods and finds himself bound to a fox spirit whose magic is written in ink, bone and revenge. It's Big Fire: Angry by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com

Four short stories I read and loved in FEBRUARY ✨ MAGICAL GIRL: CORPORATE FAILURE by @thelialao.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social THE SALT AND THE CURE by @rukman.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my) Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!

Start your Monday off by reviewing the seven virtues and how Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon embodies them while taking part in mech jousting in today's story by S. C. Mills .

that moment when you have to take a breath before you break the novel apart in revisions. purify gold in fire and all that.

ICYMI, Plott Hound Magazine will now be accepting REPRINTS! We're calling them Retold Tails. -length: up to 10,000 words -payment: $20 for flash, $100 for longer For more details, check out our submission guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submission-g...

REVIEW: “In This Exchange of Names, I Say Please,” by Wen Wen Yang sffreviews.com/2026/02/25/r...

Well now I’m making my town’s usage of AI slop images, and the library holding a session on how to use a technology that has stolen all my books, everyone’s problem. This will be in print in The Retrospect tomorrow (and I’ll post photos then too).

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To break this curse, she’ll have to confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world. #WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

"Well, I am young, gifted and yellow." "I learned that beneath my goody two shoes lies some very dark socks.​" Lisa. I felt seen.

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.

Happy Lunar New Year!! www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...

There's content warnings, but damn if you're ok with those, this is a great interview, and I'd been unaware of Ms. Pat. www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sa...

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Just made my 50th short fiction sale. 19 reprints, 31 originals. It's so angry, so timely.

Ronny Chieng's Happy New Year youtu.be/O_KpLrHCAx0?...

i don't believe in ghosts, but I will come back and trip you at the top of the stairs.

realised i never made an official 2025 pubs list, so... hi! i had one short out in saros sf (publisher: @fusionfragment.bsky.social, 4k words) last year, feat: 🏍️flying car crashes 💎sapphic nepo babies 🧠 transplanting your situationship's memories into your brain to cope with her death <33

as a new zealander, i’m also eligible for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥝🥹 anyone can nominate, so i’d be honoured if you’d consider “looking glass” (pubbed in saros sf #1 by @fusionfragment.bsky.social and edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... sarossf.com/issue-1/

Hugo noms are open. I have one story eligible. Please consider it if you enjoy pirates and/or necromancy and/or indian history and/or romance (Or even just read it. I think it's pretty good.)

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration. One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.

I would appreciate if you checked out my work for the Hugos! I'm in my second year of Astounding eligibility, and I also have a few stories out, available at clairejiawen.com/work -- and I'll link some below!

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

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...

No, no.

Age verification? I had a compuserve account.

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-...

can’t believe my first pro rate sale is out today in @havenspec.bsky.social! featuring: 💜 the worst sapphic situationship 5eva 👵 the existential dread of a quarter life crisis (spreadsheets! creepy directors!) 💀 “dying a hero is easy; living is harder”

"My daughter is only 6 years old. She should not know chains or handcuffs or the terror of her family being torn apart. She should never have been...locked in a detention facility for 2 months. She should be in school in the US, playing with her friends and receiving the medical care she needs."

Excited and proud to announce that I'm guest editing @tasavvurnama.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue. Open for your South Asian SFF submissions now till the end of Feb.

Continuing on the theme of finding new ways: A Feast for Mandrakes by Jennifer Mace, Unbending My Bones by Sierra Branham, and To Kiss the Chrysanthemum Moon by Wen Wen Yang: smallwondersmag.com/... smallwondersmag.com/... smallwondersmag.com/... 10/16

Don't give up: Five Hundred Defects by Michael Zahniser, Granny’s Spider by Wen Wen Yang, and In Which the Minotaur Just Wants to Get Out of the Labyrinth, Dammit by Nadia Born smallwondersmag.com/... smallwondersmag.com/... smallwondersmag.com/... 14/16