Phong Quan

%%title%% %%page%% | Cast of Wonders I see the crowds before I see you, before I see even the flickering white of your flame. Your culture’s everywhere now—your music, your art, your words—but not your people, and not you…

Reading more for ESEA Heritage Month, @pqwrites.bsky.social space opera re. war trauma, connection and belonging. Loved the 2nd person duo narration, BAME and non-human main characters, diaspora Vietnamese angle. More of this imagination and writing please.
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Ahh thank you so much for reading this story!! It’s near and dear to my heart and I’m really glad you enjoyed it! 🙏❤️

OMG thank you @witchywonderer.bsky.social, that's an amazing article
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Catching up with @pqwrites.bsky.social and Coco, and gossiping about... I mean discussing publishing 🫢

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I have not but I’m terrible at baking! Can I just buy that? Haha

I haven’t been able to write much this year, but one thing I’m proud of is working with my mom to translate/edit a book on Vipassana meditation by the Venerable Khippapañño Kim Trieu. It’s a great, practical guide grounded in Buddhist philosophy. Check it out!

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Hey, Fire Heart is on Netgallery until October 11!

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The lone mooncake I was able to steal from my work pantry because nobody got budget to send me mooncakes for Mid Autumn Festival this year. 🥲

Me rocking my 4 Immortals of VN shirt with @nghivo.bsky.social, my literary hero & the 5th immortal to me! Thank you for being so gracious with my fanboying. Your writing helped me believe that my Viet-American ass has a chance to write & meeting you was a highlight of the Nebulas. 🙏

Had such a great time at the Nebulas in Pasadena last weekend. Thanks to all the cool, amazing people who let lil’ ol’ me hang out with them & congrats to all the finalists. You inspire me to keep pushing my own writing forward & I can’t wait to see you again. ♥️

Finally back in NYC! Huge congrats to all the Nebula winners! Beyond honored to have spent time with you all 🙏🏻

Special thanks to @pqwrites.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social and all the amazing writers who helped this introvert from feeling overwhelmed at her first con 💙

Was so great meeting and hanging out with you!!

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You don’t appreciate what you have until all you can get are less cheesy international versions!

One of the most exciting things about going back to the U.S. for me is getting a chance to experience all the Cheetos innovation. New packaging?? Xxtra Flamin’ Hot?? Take my money!! 🤤

Back in California & jetlagged af for @sfwa.bsky.social’s #Nebulas2024! 💀 Lmk if you want to meet up!

I’ll also be on one panel on Friday 6/7, 3-4pm: “The Rise of South & Southeast Asian SFF”, with @rajeevwriter.bsky.social & Avani Gadani, moderated by S.B. Divya.

Hope to see some of you there!

Thanks for writing this!

“He taps its gleaming hull and the ship hurtles through the bedroom... dripping on rainy days, sizzling on the hot ones. Alberto calls it Offy.”

Love this @diabolicalplots.com story by @renanbernardo.bsky.social about a child & their ship. A moving coming-of-age & beyond story full of love & life.

Pssst. Slay and Slay Again!, an anthology containing my first published story is now available for digital preorders at Amazon. If the ‘zon isn’t your thing, check out the quotes thread as more options become available. Official release date is July 31st!

Submissions | Emberletter Press — Emberletter Press | Creators. Storytellers. Firekeepers.

This is ridiculous. This press is asking for "first right of refusal for adaptation rights (film, graphic novels, etc.) of the work for a period of 3 years from the signing date."

THREE YEARS.

Run, don't submit, don't sign this. Such a bad thing for writers.

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A Contract of Ink and Skin - Uncanny Magazine The earliest versions included uglier things: ground up insect eggs and corroded bronze, but the ink you receive is pure, made only from blood of the Cursed. They inject it into your eyes first becaus...

“The ink traces its own black veins, ancient circuits across a new body, your body.”

Tense and unsettling flash by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social about making deadly supernatural deals. Love the gorgeous prose that viscerally seeps into you like the namesake cursed ink. ✍️

If you also feel existential anxiety, it's okay to put your phone down and do something nice instead. Your anxiety makes literally no difference in whatever happens. Your focus and dread is not a magic wand that will stop bad things from being worse if you just keep staring at bad things.

Get a whole-ass jug of this insane but surprisingly smooth 女儿红 (red daughter) drink at Magazine 63, the coolest speakeasy in Penang, to feel like a wandering wuxia warrior. ⚔️

To Be a Happy Man - Lightspeed Magazine My son tells me that there’s a man in the house, someone he hears well after the lights are out, in the narrower halls or maybe at the far side of the den---a gait and creak he’s certain isn’t me or h...

“My son tells me that there’s a man in the house, someone he hears well after the lights are out…”

A brilliant flash by @thomasha.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com about a strange haunting passed through generations. Loved its unnerving creepiness juxtaposed with parental tenderness.

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Rail Meat by Marie Vibbert

“She could never turn down chasing a pretty, expensive thing.”

This is a fun, fast-paced heist story with a sky-race thrown in, full of likable thieves resisting their better judgments. A charming @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @reasie.bsky.social I really enjoyed. 💙

Visited Kek Lok Si, the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. The Buddhist nerd in me finds it fascinating that though the temple’s name means supreme bliss in Hokkien and is a reference to the pure land of the buddha Amitabha, its defining feature is the giant statue of the bodhisattva Guanyin. 🤔

This was such a unique story with such gorgeous prose—thanks for putting it out in the world! 💙💙💙

Frogskin Once there lived a princess who was a girl, a corpse, a slippery amphibial nymph. She was tucked within several lives, each life pleating and creasing into silken layers of woe. But for our purpose…

“Once there lived a princess who was a girl, a corpse, a slippery amphibial nymph.”

What a gorgeously written & twisted anti-fairy tale by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social in Strange Horizons about a princess who’s not who she seems escaping her forced marriage in a shocking way. 🔥

Monkey King sightings in Penang. I’m only mildly surprised that a purely fictional (vs mythological) character gets whole ass temples/shrines devoted to him.