DongWon Song
@dongwon.bsky.social
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk
Mike Davis's City of Quartz
Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.
new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.
www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
Go Find a Lake
Recently, I climbed into an alpine lake. The rocks were slippery and unstable, the water near freezing. In the time it took to gasp, the cold was in my bones. I waded deeper until I found sandy bottom...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.
www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...
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Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social & @sandratayler.bsky.social in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
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October 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social & @sandratayler.bsky.social in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
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This week's episode of @writingexcuses.bsky.social is focused on my own personal creative practices. I talk about how being bored is one of the best ways to keep moving forward towards your goals. This was a fun conversation and you can check it out below:
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20.41: DongWon Song’s Personal Writing Process
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October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This week's episode of @writingexcuses.bsky.social is focused on my own personal creative practices. I talk about how being bored is one of the best ways to keep moving forward towards your goals. This was a fun conversation and you can check it out below:
redcircle.com/shows/848724...
redcircle.com/shows/848724...
woah woah woah, two weeks in a row with newsletters? is this habit forming?
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Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
woah woah woah, two weeks in a row with newsletters? is this habit forming?
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
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"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
Surgery with a Shotgun: Why Genres Matter
Categories are made up. They will always be nothing more than an approximation of the thing itself. Nothing as simple as a label can encompass the experience, the reality, and the nuance of any indivi...
www.publishingishard.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:
www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...
being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.
Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages...
Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only
Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only
Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song
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October 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages...
Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only
Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only
Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
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immigration is good, actually.
July 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
immigration is good, actually.
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Gotta say, these protests and the city of LA fighting to take care of their neighbors is the most hopeful I've felt in a bit.
June 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Gotta say, these protests and the city of LA fighting to take care of their neighbors is the most hopeful I've felt in a bit.
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You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
June 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.
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We are excited to announce that @dongwon.bsky.social will be joining @maryrobinettekowal.com and @sandratayler.bsky.social in Minnesota from June 15th-21st for our 2nd (re)Generate Retreat!
March 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We are excited to announce that @dongwon.bsky.social will be joining @maryrobinettekowal.com and @sandratayler.bsky.social in Minnesota from June 15th-21st for our 2nd (re)Generate Retreat!
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Anyway, the truth is it’s not hard to stand up to genocide apologists. Just say “This is awful; I cannot fathom how any person could justify this.“ And then when they try to justify it you say, “No, I don’t think you understand: This is unfathomably cruel.” That’s it! You did it!
November 12, 2023 at 3:53 AM
Anyway, the truth is it’s not hard to stand up to genocide apologists. Just say “This is awful; I cannot fathom how any person could justify this.“ And then when they try to justify it you say, “No, I don’t think you understand: This is unfathomably cruel.” That’s it! You did it!
i gotta be honest... i've played all 3 mass effect games multiple times and i have no idea what n7 means or why it matters. it really never comes up in the games? i was always confused why it was on all the branding/shepard's uniforms.
November 8, 2023 at 9:21 PM
i gotta be honest... i've played all 3 mass effect games multiple times and i have no idea what n7 means or why it matters. it really never comes up in the games? i was always confused why it was on all the branding/shepard's uniforms.
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Ode to butterbutts.
November 3, 2023 at 6:07 PM
Ode to butterbutts.
it doesn't fly so no, mister detective bladerunner would not have driven it.
November 1, 2023 at 7:47 PM
it doesn't fly so no, mister detective bladerunner would not have driven it.
oh this is thrilling news for so many reasons:
www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1...
well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.
www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1...
well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.
www.npr.org
November 1, 2023 at 4:40 PM
oh this is thrilling news for so many reasons:
www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1...
well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.
www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1...
well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.
reminder to everyone to turn off your phones, don't take photos of people's faces, and please god use signal or something similar to coordinate if you're going to protests.
October 29, 2023 at 4:40 PM
reminder to everyone to turn off your phones, don't take photos of people's faces, and please god use signal or something similar to coordinate if you're going to protests.
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PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.
You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.
More on this feature here:
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.
More on this feature here:
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
Blur tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
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October 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM
PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.
You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.
More on this feature here:
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.
More on this feature here:
https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/
leaving october with a very different life than the one i entered with
October 29, 2023 at 4:24 PM
leaving october with a very different life than the one i entered with
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Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
October 27, 2023 at 10:16 PM
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
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That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.
October 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM
That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.