Lilly Lu✨ ADD SEVEN TO GOODREADS

writing in hard times thoughts on the role of literature right now

I wrote about the role of literature (as an author and a lit prof) in these hard times.

#writingcommunity

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Social media tile with an abstract artwork featuring vibrant, textured brushstrokes in neon pinks, oranges, blues, yellows, and purples. Overlaid on the left side is a pale pink text box with the following poem excerpt: ‘arms wound / around the / wondrous sounds / of tata tatata / 他她X也.’ Below the poem, in bold black text: 'O to be gaysian!' by Lilly Lu.

We have new poetry on #EnbyLife Journal! Read Lilly Lu’s vivid piece ‘O to be gaysian!’

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6 more hours to bid & some query critiques still unclaimed!!! #amquerying #writingcommunity 📣📣📣

Bidding closes Friday at 12pm PT, and we have SO MANY QUERY CRITIQUES LEFT 📣📣 donate to an LA mutual fund, dm me the receipt, and enter for a prize! #amquerying #writingcommunity

Wanna chance to win a query package critique from me???

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so many unclaimed AMAs and query critiques for #amquerying #writingcommunity! Donate to a mutual aid fund and bid for an item! Help us reach our next $100 goal 💜📣

How to enter: donate to one of the orgs listed, dm me a receipt, $10 is 1 raffle ticket

Query critiques from Amanda Carbonell, Ashyle Jordan, and Noelle Monet

Query critiques from authors Yuva Harish, Tesia Tsai, Kayla Morton and Audrey Goldberg Ruoff

AMA from Michelle Jing Chan and Jessica Yoon

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜

How to enter: 🧵

I'm donating a query critique, and there are other amazing offers from authors, illustrators, and agents! 💕

Tarot reading from Lilly Lu, custom pet art from Jane Kim Testa, book signed by Deandra Davis

More prizes to bid for!

How to enter: donate to one of the orgs listed, dm me a receipt, $10 is 1 raffle ticket

Query critiques from Amanda Carbonell, Ashyle Jordan, and Noelle Monet

Query critiques from authors Yuva Harish, Tesia Tsai, Kayla Morton and Audrey Goldberg Ruoff

AMA from Michelle Jing Chan and Jessica Yoon

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity! We are doing a mini fundraiser for mutual aid in LA/OC! Donate to an org below, DM me the receipt, bid on items, win prizes like query critiques, AMAs, & tarot readings! ⭐️ Thanks to @michellejingchan.bsky.social for co-organizing 💜

How to enter: 🧵

aww thank you! hope you enjoy 💜

So proud to be ace and to have done this round table with my fellow aces in publishing!!! Thank you @amandasbrews.bsky.social for having us!!! 💜💜💜

excited to be included in such a rockstar group for a great convo. check it out!

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It was such an honor to join this conversation, which was so illuminating and affirming of writing acespec stories!💜🤍🩶🖤

It’s on my list to read this summer!!! 💜

Expanding the Script: Ace Stories, Structures, and Perspectives in Publishing – Bookish Brews A roundtable of ace storytellers discuss writing, publishing, and ace representation in books and the publishing industry.

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also special shoutout to @avenofficial.bsky.social whom all of us thanked in this piece haha! 💜

Expanding the script: ace stories, structures and perspectives in publishing

@michellejingchan.bsky.social & i organized a panel of ace creatives to talk about asexuality & publishing! thanks to @redgoldsparks.bsky.social @schwartzwords.bsky.social and @witchm.bsky.social for sharing your words with us, & @amandasbrews.bsky.social for giving this piece a home💜🏳️‍🌈

We’re live! From #LoveIntheBigCity to #StrayKids and #BTS livestreams—Issue 002 dives into K-drama revenge, Cold War snacks, fan activism, murder rom-coms, diaspora, and more. Read now at mentmagazine.com/issue002

Issue 2: Marjoram is live! We have quite a bit about love in here, love of others, self-love, etc. Our contributors have created quite the lovely collection!

Check it out here: wildwillowmagazine.com/archive/

With love, WWM 💚

#literarymagazine #IssueTwo #WildWillowMagazine

GARLAND — fifth wheel press

my short story about ace magic & ancestry is out now! 💜 thanks to @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social for giving it a home!

#asexuality #writingcommunity

fifthwheelpress.com/garland

my ace magic & ancestry short story is in here! check it out 💜

GARLAND 3, guest-edited by @esichr.bsky.social, is here!
fifthwheelpress.com/garland

🚨ISSUE 002 IS ON THE WAY! 🚨

Ligia Lemos (@ligiaprezialemos.bsky.social) and Mariana Marques De Lima dive into the intersections of social media activism, Brazilian fanbases, and “Love In The Big City.” You won’t want to miss this one!

#mentmagazine #kdramas #LoveInTheBigCity

Oh yayyy!!

Oh sure! And the western market (which is the context I am writing in) (over)emphasizes agency and individual character development, but that’s what my write-up is for: authors interested in pursuing tradpub in the western context (as flawed as it is)

Yes I think too often we think of the synopsis as “what happens” when it’s much more about the emotions through the “what happens”—especially since a synopsis is part of the pitch package!

more ace short stories by yours truly coming out in 2025! 💜🥳 (just got an acceptance!)

👀👀 Oh this looks good! 💜