Jer Xiong
@jerxiong.bsky.social
hmong writer (creative nonfiction, essays, poetry) | editor | raised in Northern California, currently in Greater Los Angeles area
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Final few hours to get your nonfiction book submitted to @athenadixon.bsky.social and the crew! After 11:59pm CT, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!!
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Final few hours to get your nonfiction book submitted to @athenadixon.bsky.social and the crew! After 11:59pm CT, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!!
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Revising and editing some old essays so I went to find sharp and intense essays to inspire and push me. Read this piece in Brevity: In Chinese I Am Six Years Old brevitymag.com/current-issu...
In Chinese I Am Six Years Old | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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October 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Revising and editing some old essays so I went to find sharp and intense essays to inspire and push me. Read this piece in Brevity: In Chinese I Am Six Years Old brevitymag.com/current-issu...
🙌🏼 Hello to Silk & the team! Excited to be a part of this and can't wait to read. Thanks for having me!
We're so excited to welcome two new readers to the 2025 SLP Nonfiction reading team! Joining our returning NF readers Cavar, August, Tucker, E. Ce, Keene, and Maxwell ( and our fantastic NF editor @athenadixon.bsky.social ), please say hello to @silkjazmyne.bsky.social and @jerxiong.bsky.social !
September 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🙌🏼 Hello to Silk & the team! Excited to be a part of this and can't wait to read. Thanks for having me!
Happy #AAPI / #AANHPI month 🌸
Grateful I got to work with poet, essayist, and dramaturg Cody Kour on this essay, thinking about this past #KhmerNewYear.
A reminder of what Spring 1975 was for many of our parents and elders, the good and the bad--but trying to remember the good, the blessings. 🐍
Grateful I got to work with poet, essayist, and dramaturg Cody Kour on this essay, thinking about this past #KhmerNewYear.
A reminder of what Spring 1975 was for many of our parents and elders, the good and the bad--but trying to remember the good, the blessings. 🐍
Every Khmer New Year, dramaturg Cody Kour prays for the same blessings of prosperity and peace for his loved ones. This year—50 years after the fall of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge —he wonders whether his prayers have been answered. zps.la/45tn4PY
What the Shape of a Blessing Looks Like This Cambodian New Year | Essay
Remembering the Best Parts of Our History, 50 Years After Our Country Changed Forever
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May 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Happy #AAPI / #AANHPI month 🌸
Grateful I got to work with poet, essayist, and dramaturg Cody Kour on this essay, thinking about this past #KhmerNewYear.
A reminder of what Spring 1975 was for many of our parents and elders, the good and the bad--but trying to remember the good, the blessings. 🐍
Grateful I got to work with poet, essayist, and dramaturg Cody Kour on this essay, thinking about this past #KhmerNewYear.
A reminder of what Spring 1975 was for many of our parents and elders, the good and the bad--but trying to remember the good, the blessings. 🐍
Happy #AAPI / #AANHPI month 🌸 The beginning of this year, I made a goal to read more memoirs & essays from the community, specifically seeking out more SEA writers. If you're looking for more creative nonfiction in your life, consider these books & writings. (Will post daily-ish for May):
May 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM