wen-yi lee

i've been chewing on this essay for a long time ~ deeply grateful to @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for giving it a home and to @mariahaskins.com for her careful editing 💚

ruadanbooks.com/missing-myth...

thank you for reading and writing about her!!!

christina called my main character a bitch and i said yes correct thank you 🫶🏼

The Name Ziya - Reactor A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.

New from this post is perhaps my favorite novelette of the year to date, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social, a story of academia and colonialism that’s gripping from the start and remarkably emotionally complicated for the lead reactormag.com/the-name-ziy...

thank you so much!!

wait that's so cool thank you!!

ALL THE LOVE TO YOU AT LAST

my favourite short story i've ever written is out now on reactor 💖 it's fantasy dark academia about access to colonial institutions, assimilation, complicity, cultural names & identity (with a sapphic mc!)

I honestly forgot I had this account. Reading an ARC of @wenyilee.bsky.social’s adult sapphic Southeast Asian fantasy that’s filled with fire and longing. And butterflies.

#felireads #booksky #reading #books

Pst, hey contributors!

@sentencebender.bsky.social @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social @ayshaufarah.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social @domsdickey.bsky.social @wenyilee.bsky.social @bendibarrett.bsky.social @itsneonyang.bsky.social @katharineduckett.bsky.social & more!!

dark academia fantasy short story out june 18th!!

i am currently reading this + loving absolutely every story! a few highlights so far: "They Will Give Us a Home" by @wenyilee.bsky.social (begging for an arc of their adult debut tbh) + "When the Devil Comes from Babylon" @mayadeane.bsky.social

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social

thank you for reading 💕 and hope you get the arc!!

Advanced Bound Manuscript of When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee. There is no cover. It's just white with the Tor Publishing Group logo of a mountain on it.

Got an Uncorrected Bound Manuscript from Tor Books!

When They Burned the Butterfly, by Wen-Yi Lee!

@wenyilee.bsky.social 💖

🥰🥰🥰🦋

Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down - Uncanny Magazine Content note: Ableism and racism   The British plucked us from our prisons and sailed us here, this jungle island in the Nanyang with their treasure striated into the bedrock. More precious than gold,...

Really enjoyed "Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down" by @wenyilee.bsky.social over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. Really well written, well told story that unfolds perfectly.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/red-...

thanks so much for reading!!

ARCs for When They Burned the Butterfly, my sapphic girl gang fantasy set in 1970s singapore, are up on both edelweiss & netgalley!!!!

mine and now everyone else's 🥹

If you're in Bath and would like to pick up WORK-LIFE BALANCE, you can do so at Topping & Company! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/books/work-l...

SO THRILLED FOR YOU

Screengrab of Asunder as Nebula Award finalist for best novel.

I’m so happy. This is one of the biggest things to ever happen to me. 💛

nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2...

if you want singapore-inspired historical fantasy from me ahead of BUTTERFLY, my new magical realism story in the latest @UncannyMagazine is inspired by the crabs & colonial mining of christmas island + singapore's 1963 prison island riot 🦀❤️

Future Fiction #322 - Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books @realjacksonford.bsky.social @markwaddell.bsky.social @wenyilee.bsky.social

thanks for shouting out butterfly! ❤️

was also interviewed by the lovely caroline yoachim about the story!

bsky.app/profile/unca...

if you want singapore-inspired historical fantasy from me ahead of BUTTERFLY, my new magical realism story in the latest @UncannyMagazine is inspired by the crabs & colonial mining of christmas island + singapore's 1963 prison island riot 🦀❤️

Cover for @wenyilee.bsky.social sapphic adult fantasy set in 1970s postcolonial Singapore. Out October 21 from @torbooks.bsky.social . Mixed Media. 1/2

there's something in the works about the design process i'm SO excited to share more on, but in the meantime please take in the cover itself it is the love of my LIFE

COVER REVEAL❤️🦋

WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!

🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)

BUTTERFLY cover reveal tomorrow 11am est 😃😃 vibrating out of my chair