tina s. zhu
@tinazhu.bsky.social
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writer/fairytale nerd ✨ tinaszhu.com ✨read me in Reactor/tordotcom, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, monkeybicycle ✨Assistant Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
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ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now
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seoungkim.bsky.social
okay i made a spreadsheet ✨ i picked mostly randomly authors/venues i've been wanting to read more of docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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CHLORINE x ROGUE

In order to join a girlboss cult to climb the corporate ladder, Lillian has a choice—wreck what’s left of her family or ruin her budding relationship with the cult leader.

ft:
🦊1 ghostly fox
💔2 toxic sapphics
🧍‍♀️3 complicated sisters

#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC
tinazhu.bsky.social
👀👀 shady soulmate business? I'm hooked!
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CHLORINE x ROGUE

All Lillian and her sisters have left of their mother are her bestselling picture books. Now the fox spirit from the books has come to life and is haunting Lillian.

#DVPit #A #CON #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC
tinazhu.bsky.social
ahhhh thank you!! 💖
tinazhu.bsky.social
yayyy another jjk fan in the wild! your book sounds really cool too 👀
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ROGUE x JUJUTSU KAISEN

A weatherwoman wants to join a girlboss cult to maximize her influence in the age of weather apps. Too bad a ghostly nine-tailed fox makes her go viral for the wrong reasons.

#DVPit #A #H #MR #WF #Asian #LGBT #POC
tinazhu.bsky.social
update: my mother has deemed the zucchini bread yummy, life goal achieved
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Celebrating my fresh-baked story in the latest issue of @pinchjournal.bsky.social about a demonic suburban PTA bake sale by making some zucchini bread!
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Hey Weirdos, LONGFORM SUBMISSIONS (20k+ & Weird Forms) ARE OPEN!

2 notes:
1.) We close again at the end of August TO ALL BUT BIPOC WRITERS for Sept & Oct. Please be respectful of this, thankya.
2.) This is for publication in 2027 or later.

Deets here: tenebrouspress.com/submissions

Hails🖤☠️
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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...
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ahhh thank you so much!! still shook over it haha
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Huge surprise to find that I made it onto the longlist with my trippy music video micro! ty to the editors @maudlinhouse.bsky.social for seeing something special in this piece :)

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I’ve loved being part of Split Lip the past few years, and I’m stoked for the new role and to be part of the amazing team here!
splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Exciting News!! ✨ We have promoted 🌟 super stars 🌟 Tina Zhu, Michael Simonds, and Molly Andrea-Ryan to Assistant Fiction Editor! We are over the moon about this news! Thank you for all you do for SLM & the literary community, Tina, Michael, & Molly! 😘
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Honored and hype as hell to have THE CRAWLING MOON as a finalist for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social 🌕 (and what great company the book is in!)

www.shirleyjacksonawards.org
EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)

The Crawling Moon, edited by dave ring (Neon Hemlock)

Monsters in the Mills, edited by Christa Carmen and L.E. Daniels (IP [Interactive Publications Pty Ltd])

The White Guy Dies First, edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Tor Publishing Group)

Why Didn’t You Just Leave, edited by Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin (Cursed Morsels Press)
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1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social)
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚
Book cover for The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread edited by Dave Ring‬ (Neon Hemlock‬), where the moon and trees are drawn within a frame so the whole suggests a skull. Contributors include Sage Agee‬, Bendi Barrett‬, Winifred Burton‬, Amelia Burton, Jess Cho, Lyndall Clipstone‬, Donyae Coles, Dare Segun Falowo, Caro Jansen, Yeonsoo Kim, Marianne Kirby‬, M.L. Krishnan‬, Jes Malitoris‬, Chris McCartney, KC Mead-Brewer‬, Suzan Palumbo‬, Hailey Piper‬, E. Saxey‬, Jordan Shiveley‬, Caitlin Starling‬, Natalia Theodoridou‬, v.f. Thompson, E. Catherine Tobler‬, Shaoni C. White, Cynthia Zhang‬, and Tina Zhu‬.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-crawling-moon