@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming COYOTELAND
Congratulations to Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social!
02.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎉Thrilled to publish debut nonfiction UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE by @vanessahua.bsky.social — Spring 2027!
01.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2Thank you!
01.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dream come true!! 🌿
01.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I love it! Thank you!!
22.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
22.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cover reveal: From coyote to… COYOTELAND, coming May 2026! I can’t stop staring at this electrifying cover by the talented Claire Sullivan. 🙏 Pls consider pre-ordering from your favorite independent bookstore or requesting from the library!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Kick off fall! A couple spots left, come join me online next Tuesday (9/9)
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
“Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.”
—Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social
On Sept. 9, join @vanessahua.bsky.social for this two-hour online class, Writing Across Cultures.
We’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own, that reflect social and historical context and the fullness of a character’s humanity. #writingcommunity
@vanessahua.bsky.social -Her work has shed a light on Asian issues and the diaspora. She is a great supporter and role model for #AAPI writers. @sewaneewriters.bay.social #authors #writingcommunity
23.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to dig into some of the faculty books I picked up at @sewaneewriters.bsky.social. Wonderful to workshop with @eula.biss and Amy Leach. @vanessahua.bsky.social @jailthepoets.bsky.social. Meeting other writers transforms how you read their work and how you see your own.
05.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Happy publication day to @victorsuth.bsky.social's HOLLOW SPACES! ✨
✨ An Apple Books best book of August
✨ "Cerebral, sexy, and provocative." — Lo Patrick, author of THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT
✨ "Fast-paced and suspenseful." — @vanessahua.bsky.social, author of FORBIDDEN CITY
"Like love, like bankruptcy, like sleep, the wild swings happened slowly, then all at once."
This time last year, we published the flash piece FORECAST by @vanessahua.bsky.social . Her story was selected for Best Microfictions 2025! Revisit it in our archives: buff.ly/SaqJgWO
23.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A small bundle of white flowers resting on an open page of a book
The Split Lip FAM’s work over the past two months has been sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always important. Take a moment to enjoy this batch of good news and great publications from our community. buff.ly/zQNZ5yN
17.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2Was just raving about it -- so good! And unfortunately timely.
31.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Forbidden City, a Novel - Vanessa Hua (Book Cover Image features a young Chinese girl in pigtails and blue shirt. Rays of bright yellow and red flair behind her.)
The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.
💙📚
#booksky #books #bookchallenge
@vanessahua.bsky.social
Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
Hi folks, I’m teaching with @onestorymag.bsky.social again this spring. RTs appreciated. Thank you!
13.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Honored to serve as a judge for the #AspenLitPrize. The amazing books on the shortlist explore identity, faith, dispossession, immigration, erasure and slavery.
Add these to your TBR!
@aspeninstitute.bsky.social
aspenwords.org/literary-prize
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
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25.02.2025 23:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0VAST Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social ♥️🥳
24.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Today at SLM we're reading contributor @vanessahua.bsky.social 's thoughtful, urgent article on the history of American birthright citizenship in @sfchronicle.bsky.social . Read it here: https://buff.ly/3Qp0sYp
21.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much💔 I am haunted by my children's future memories...
17.02.2025 23:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@vanessahua.bsky.social has me choked up and heart-clutched with Forecast. Losing the fog, that bodily experience of the lowering sky, is one of the great worries I have about what we are almost guaranteed to lose in a heating world. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0624/v...
15.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Read Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social's latest on the SF Chronicle.
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