Audrey Zhou

This review just blew me away:
"Silk & Sinew: Diaspora Dread Served Hot with a Splash of Ancestral Vinegar" 🔥🔥🔥
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/10/s...
Much appreciation to Mr. November!
#silkandsinewantho #silkandsinew #badhandbooks #folkhorror #asiandiasporastories

LA people!

We’ve got copies of SILK & SINEW at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in Pasadena and @barnesandnoble.com in Glendale! Get em while they’re hot off the @badhandbooks.bsky.social press.

Cover art for FF#26. A woman's face surrounded by mirror shards, each containing an eye, along with shards of noh masks, one containing an eye and one a horn. A pair of evil eyes loom at the top.

Cover art for Saros #4. Fungi-type tentacles entwine Big Ben and London in general. Two figures stand on what appears to be a broken down roadway.

RELEASE DATE: What's better than a new issue from FF? Two issues on the same day! In our first-ever dual launch day, you'll be able to get FF#26 and Saros #4 in one handy download package.

Get excited for Monday, October 27th!

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

We are $225 from MORE ART! We want to be able to commission one or more additional queer artists to create even more art! Think headers, dividers, the little flourishes and interior art details that bring things to life! Help us support more queer art! 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Thank you Angela❤️much appreciated!!

very honored to have a short story in this anthology and extremely excited to be in such company❤️do check SILK & SINEW and the other works on this list out!!

The NY Public Library's list of Best New Horror Books for Adults.

HOLY MOLY! The New York Public Library has named SILK & SINEW one of the best new horror books for adults. Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of our contributors. The anthology is available now wherever books are sold.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/silk-sinew...

Me signing a copy of SILK & SINEW for Joe Lansdale.

Me and Joe Lansdale, who holds a copy of SILK & SINEW

Ok so I returned to @vromansbookstore.bsky.social to buy my son a book and I ran into @joerlansdale.bsky.social and one thing led to another and he asked me to autograph him a copy of SILK & SINEW from the inimitable @badhandbooks.bsky.social. Thanks, Joe! What an afternoon. Bookstores fuckin rock.

"In the Wake of Whales" by Claire Jia-Wen: the dead, revived by AI / environmentalism / is it him? This text is overlaid on a photo of a whale, emerging from the water.

Happy to announce that we've acquired "In the Wake of Whales" by @clairejiawen.bsky.social for FF#28!

Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.

"(Non)deterministic Finite Automata" by Audrey Zhou: searching for survival in the multiverse / soulmates / "I know you" This text is overlaid on top of an image showing a spaceship entering a wormhole

Happy to announce that we've acquired "(Non)deterministic Finite Automata" by @audreyzhou.bsky.social for FF#28!

Audrey's a Clarion grad who's previously had work published in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, and Orion's Belt.

so thrilled and excited🫶this story is very near and dear to my heart

new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/

changed my life

Photograph of the eighteen Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates with their instructors, Jedediah Berry and GennaRose Nethercott.

Meet our 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop graduates! They’re pictured with their instructors, @jedediahberry.com and GennaRose Nethercott, who led the final two weeks.

It has been an unforgettable summer, and we’re so proud to call this class Clarion alumni!

going to miss this summer forever🫶truly a once in a lifetime opportunity

so so honored to be included among such wonderful writers and im still processing that my story was included--the "The Last Flesh Figure Skaters" means so much to me

thank you Rukman!! Congrats to you as well :)

Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego, with text reading: Congratulations to the Clarion class of 2025! Delight Ejiaka, John Reeves Hardberger, Claire Jia-Wen, Clara Jimenez, YJ Jun, A. E. Lanier, A.M. Maris, L. G. Merrick, Riley Passmore, Tamsyn Riddle, Jackie Rogoff, Nadja Sennewald, Chloe Smith, Randy Stearns, Georgia Wright, Uly Yarber, Audrey Zhou, Tina S. Zhu.

We are so excited to announce our talented cohort of writers for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Congratulations to these incredible writers! We cannot wait to meet you all in San Diego!

cannot wait for the summer🫶

so so excited to be in PseudoPod! I'm very grateful to have this story so wonderfully narrated <3 tune in for girls in love (?), necromancy, + demons of the third-wheeling kind

Thank you Angela!! so grateful for you❤️❤️

I’m back in the hosting chair this week!

“Readers* are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

[*or, indeed, listeners]

PseudoPod 967: Two’s Company, Three Might Be A Sign of Demonic Possession You didn’t take the usual precautions when Lin died. You would find out later how it happened—slippery tile floor, the trials of installing a new shower curtain rod, and the surprisingly fragile…

“You didn’t take the usual precautions when Lin died.”

Two’s Company, Three Might Be a Sign of Demonic Possession
by Audrey Zhou

Narrator: Pine Gonzalez
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis

This story is a PseudoPod original.

pseudopod.org/2025/03/21/p...

so so excited to be in PseudoPod! I'm very grateful to have this story so wonderfully narrated <3 tune in for girls in love (?), necromancy, + demons of the third-wheeling kind

Nebula nominations are open, so with that in mind, here’s my eligibility for this year. You’ll find “Bright Horizons” and “The Life You’ve Given Me, Rusty” on the Nebula list. Upvotes and shares always appreciated if you enjoy them. Thanks to those who have already helped spread the word.

The Last Flesh Figure Skaters The first time I saw you, you laced up your skates, adjusted your knee mods, and I was just another unremarkable face as you fluttered to the ice. My mother snapped at me to watch you, but it was like...

my @khoreo.bsky.social story is live! if you like body mods, sapphic rivalry, and exploring anxieties around art+technologies, do check it out--it's awards eligible as well!
www.khoreomag.com/fiction/the-...

just as I was feeling a bit of post PAXU blues, I got a very amazing email that I will be flailing about for a while 😭

I am so thrilled to announce an acceptance for my short story "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" from Lightspeed! One of my big dream magazines aaaaaaaa!!

there are no taxis for the dead - Uncanny Magazine The horse brings you home wading through summer rain, reminds you             not to stare too long at the halo of light the flicker of streetlamps, metal heads bowed over fogged streets your bad knee...

Since we’ve entered the era of Hugo and Nebula Awards for poetry (!), would be honored if you checked out the poem closest to my heart: “there are no taxis for the dead” in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/ther...

Had the privilege of appearing on the Floaties for Krakens podcast for SILK & SINEW! It was fascinating listening in to the insights behind the monsters the authors brought to this antho.. Can't wait to read all the stories 👹

YouTube video by Floaties for Krakens The Empty Chair Technique for Folk Monsters | S3E10 Floaties for Krakens

The newest of the special SILK & SINEW episodes with Floaties for Krakens has premiered!
Put up your feet (and put on your thinking cap) and have a listen.
@badhandbooks.bsky.social @geneveflynn.bsky.social @jawmccarthy.bsky.social @chrishannhorror.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lp3...