Wen Wen

Vistaprint.com. the sample kit helped me decide on the natural texture one.

Business card for Wen Wen Yang. Speculative Fiction writer. Wenwenwrites.com. wenwenwrites@protonmail.com. @muteddragon.bsky.social

Business cards for worldcon arrived.

A few months back, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Angie & Christie Write Now podcast, and the episode is finally out! Give it a listen when you get the chance.

My latest story is very angry and timely and I'd like it to stop being timely.

Cover for Wen Wen Yang's Big Fire: Angry.

Good morning! In today's Editor Pick: A hungry crow answers a scream in the woods and finds himself bound to a fox spirit whose magic is written in ink, bone and revenge. It's Big Fire: Angry by Wen Wen Yang. Read it for free at gavagai.com

Four short stories I read and loved in FEBRUARY ✨

MAGICAL GIRL: CORPORATE FAILURE by @thelialao.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social

THE SALT AND THE CURE by @rukman.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com

Sword lesbians, chivalry, and mech suit jousting (oh my)

Check out my flash fiction in Small Wonders today!

The Seven Virtues of Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon - Small Wonders When Jacqueline learned she would not meet Chevalière Violette Montagne until the final mêlée, she proclaimed, “Thank God.”

Start your Monday off by reviewing the seven virtues and how Chevalière Jacqueline Aridon embodies them while taking part in mech jousting in today's story by S. C. Mills .

that moment when you have to take a breath before you break the novel apart in revisions. purify gold in fire and all that.

ICYMI, Plott Hound Magazine will now be accepting REPRINTS!

We're calling them Retold Tails.

-length: up to 10,000 words

-payment: $20 for flash, $100 for longer

For more details, check out our submission guidelines:

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REVIEW: “In This Exchange of Names, I Say Please,” by Wen Wen Yang Review of Wen Wen Yang, “In This Exchange of Names, I Say Please,” Flash Fiction Online 147 (January 2026): 32-34 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman. This was a beautif…

REVIEW: “In This Exchange of Names, I Say Please,” by Wen Wen Yang

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Letter to the editor about the dangers of gen AI. (Bluesky says it's too long for alt text)

Well now I’m making my town’s usage of AI slop images, and the library holding a session on how to use a technology that has stolen all my books, everyone’s problem. This will be in print in The Retrospect tomorrow (and I’ll post photos then too).

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT against a fantasy map backdrop

PITCH Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE X DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL bi 4 bi golden retriever boyfriend travelogue but they’re in a sidescroller god: fmk??

FIRST LINE The monastery’s map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.

ECONOMY OF MOVEMENT

Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To break this curse, she’ll have to confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.

#WSPit #W #A #F #LGBT #ND

The nicknames! The noises Chef Paik makes like he's surprised he has food in his mouth. Anh's stone face.

"Well, I am young, gifted and yellow." "I learned that beneath my goody two shoes lies some very dark socks.​" Lisa. I felt seen.

Claire Jia-Wen, Guan Un, Hannah Yang.

Contract signed! I'm going to be in @castofwonders.org again! This is a reprint of my @talesfeathers.bsky.social story from last year, "The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent". I'm so excited to hear what they'll do with the narration.

Cast of Wonders 680: Firecrackers on 28 Mott Street | Cast of Wonders The children wield firecrackers as they enter the old shop on Mott Street. Copper wind bells chime as the door closes behind them. Inside, velvet curtains block all natural light. Here the glow of…

Happy Lunar New Year!! www.castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast...

There's content warnings, but damn if you're ok with those, this is a great interview, and I'd been unaware of Ms. Pat.
www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sa...

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

a man singing into a microphone with the words i hope you get rich behind him ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words i hope you get rich behind him

Happy new year!

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Just made my 50th short fiction sale. 19 reprints, 31 originals. It's so angry, so timely.

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Ronny Chieng's Happy New Year
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i don't believe in ghosts, but I will come back and trip you at the top of the stairs.

realised i never made an official 2025 pubs list, so...

hi! i had one short out in saros sf (publisher: @fusionfragment.bsky.social, 4k words) last year, feat:
🏍️flying car crashes
💎sapphic nepo babies
🧠 transplanting your situationship's memories into your brain to cope with her death <33

as a new zealander, i’m also eligible for the sir julius vogel awards! 🥝🥹

anyone can nominate, so i’d be honoured if you’d consider “looking glass” (pubbed in saros sf #1 by
@fusionfragment.bsky.social and edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

sarossf.com/issue-1/

Hugo noms are open. I have one story eligible. Please consider it if you enjoy pirates and/or necromancy and/or indian history and/or romance

(Or even just read it. I think it's pretty good.)

Hugo noms are open, and I'd love to put forth "Be Kind and Rewind" for your consideration.

One year ago, on Valentine's day, Wyngraf published a story about queer/trans love that I coauthored with my lovely partner @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social. I'm a hack, but she made our story brilliant anyway.