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Champ Wongsatayanont

@champwongs.bsky.social

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🇹🇭 Thai writer, born and based. ✒️ Stories in Reactor and Nightmare 🫶🏼 Tin House '25 🫶🏼 Banff Center '25 🫶🏼 Clarion West '24 🫶🏼 Faber Academy '23

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE CYCLE OF SAMSARA WITH THIS ONE

The Good Place X The Wolf of Wall Street set in the Thai-Buddhist heaven. I hope you enjoy this absurd, divine comedy!

Thank you @malf.bsky.social for the opportunity to gush about the Traibhumikatha and Wenjing Yang for the godlike art!!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 6d

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

"Where the Hell Is Nirvana?" by @champwongs.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!

Art by Wenjing Yang
Edited by @malf.bsky.social

Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 13h

I can't express how happy this makes me. What a wonderful project! Thank you so much to @bridgitconnell.com for bringing Paper and Steel to life so beautifully. Please check out the full audiobook version on YT and give it some love! #DragonAge

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcAd...

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 20h

ขอบคุณครับ อ่านจบแล้ว คิดยังไงบอกผมได้เลยนะครับ 😊

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 12d

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me) introduces his second novel, Rakesfall, which is is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Vajra Chandrasekera reads from Rakesfall

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Hard copy of my first international sale. Thanks #sciencefictionworld!

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!! 🥹 Saying anumodana for my +2 🙏🏼

Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 1d

I'm such a fan of @champwongs.bsky.social's writing. So playful, tender, hilarious and deep.
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Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

reactormag.com

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 1d

To the moon!!

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 2d

Make Karma Easy With This One Weird Trick. THe Lord of Karma Hates Him!!!!

P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 2d

this, by @champwongs.bsky.social is just very, very funny.

a low-level deva functionary in the lower levels of buddhist heaven gets involved in a karma embezzlement scheme. what could possibly go wrong?

reactormag.com/where-the-hell-is-nirvana-champ-wongsatayanont/

Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

reactormag.com

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you and anumodana!! 🙏🏼
(I'm farming so many karma points from this)

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

I'm so excited to hear what you think of it!

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

Truly the greatest compliment

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much 🥹🥹🥹

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 6d

All credit goes to my CW2024 cohort. This is my week 6 story and our brains have undergone enough stewing together that I've been inspired by all the elements of everyone's work. This is the most irreverent, yet most faithfully Buddhist story I've ever written. I couldn't have done it without y'all.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 6d

Where the Hell Is Nirvana? - Reactor

A minor deva drudging away in the gleaming offices of Buddhist heaven discovers there are easier ways to improve his karma than kind thoughts and spiritual deeds.

reactormag.com

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 17d

I can't wait to play it 🥺 Witchcraft and dark magic let's goooo

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 19d

Please search 'Ferrari hit-and-run scandal Thailand'

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 19d

Disappointed that none of my Western readers have discovered my main inspiration for Autogas Ferryman yet, I need to share the interview.

All the Thai folks immediately recognise the reference, but the world must also know.

Author Spotlight: Champ Wongsatayanont - Nightmare Magazine

The thing that got me excited to write this story is the jaded and familiar voice of Bangkok taxi drivers. They’re my biggest driver, literally. Taxis decorated for spiritual protection aren’t such an...

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 20d

HEY NEW WRITING COMING OUT IN A MONTH FROM MOI

if you love experimental sapphic religious horror you're in luck!

(s)crawl literary magazine @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social · 20d

read the rest of “the serpent finds eve in every lifetime; or, GARDEN REVISITED” by sasha ravitch (@sasharavitch.bsky.social) in issue no. 01 of (s)crawl on 10.26.25

#scrawlmagazine #litmag #horrorwriters #horrorlit

greyscale graphic showing a portion of a human skull.
overlaid text says:
FIRST LINES
God help me l have never loved anything as much as her, I have never loved anyone this much and I cannot stop eating her ...
the serpent finds eve in every lifetime; or, GARDEN REVISITED
Sasha Ravitch

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 20d

You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

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Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social · 21d

Great fun. Yes, it's about grief and futility and mangled car crash ghosts, but somehow also incredibly charming.

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · Sep 7

I guess a taxi ghost story is my debut into professional publishing!

I hope you enjoy the notorious scandal twist and the Southeast Asian noir flavour.

Read the story here!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto...
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Yuming Li @yumingart.bsky.social · 21d

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 21d

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 28d

Writers! apply today for 2-6 weeks in @banffcentre.bsky.social's Leighton Studios; a great chance to finish that manuscript, start new thoughts, and gain some solitude and brain-space: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/int...

Leighton Artist Studio Residency: Solo 26/27

The Solo residency offers multiple dates for self-directed creative retreats in Banff, with private studios for individual research and project development.

www.banffcentre.ca

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Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 24d

It's a team effort!

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 24d

BRANDING is real

Champ Wongsatayanont @champwongs.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to @joberry.bsky.social for the idea and thanks to @kercoby.bsky.social the photographer