New fiction out on hobartpulp —Uzo will forever remain the most chill editor in the online lit mag world www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

Have you ever reacted strongly to an online conversation that you’re better off not get involved? Like you think you know the subject matter but not the context? I find myself constantly in that situation and have to remind myself YOU DONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN EVERY DISCOURSE CHILL

Read the BR’s summer 25 issue on our website, or join us in Brooklyn to hear our contributors read their work live!

Sat 8/16, 1pm, I’m hosting a free reading event, under the banner of [Code Zebra](don’t ask), as part of the first Asian indie music festival in NYC, with a killer lineup. And make sure to stick around for the music right after the reading with some of my favorites hitting the stage. Come hang!

open.substack.com/pub/beyondcr... An essay I penned this past week on the Chinese plagiarism scandal, the “Lucifer’s gift,” and gatekeeping in just any literature world, etc.

Found some vignettes I wrote back in summer 2020 and was bummed to realize most still rings true if we substitute Palestine for Covid (and the Dows had plummeted 10% just a month ago).

Introducing Spring 2025 Issue 45.1 of the Pinch. Get your copy to enjoy excellent fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. Swipe to see a couple of the artwork from the issue. The issue is available for purchase on our website pinchjournal.com/print

Forgot to promote this due to our Asia trip—my flash work from ‘21 has finally found home in the Spring volume of @pinchjournal.bsky.social When I wrote this I didn’t expect it still relevant in today’s world but here we are. Stay strong my visa friends and allies. It can’t always be like this.

International students (many are Chinese) have been reported to have their f1 visas suddenly revoked and face deportation for…doing nothing wrong. Some have participated in activism. More have not. Apparently we are now all “alien enemies.”

AWP? I’m writing Emma Brown (22F)’s revenge romance: walk into a job interview and find out her interviewer is Henry Lee James (27M), the ex she hates with passion. “I see you still use your job to feel taller.” “Ouch.” “I’ll offer you your dream job…on one condition.” Let’s go chapter novel.

Every time I check Duotrope and see an 800-day rejection or a $23 submission fee, I channel my spite into my reader’s queue for the two mags I read for. Don’t think this writer-journal ecosystem deserves any saving, but there’s always some fish left on the beach that cares.

And this is the first of the trilogy from last year - still fresh. Thank you NWWQ for publishing my debut story two days after it was written.

If you want to know how much an American groupie boy would pay to see Kim Jong Un, read the piece. This is also the second of my North Korea Trilogy (unofficial).