신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin
@sunyungshin.bsky.social
🍉 Author of forthcoming Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tia Ikemoto @CAA & bookings: Anya Backlund @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
Tonight on Zoom! 6-7:30 pm CDT! Also will be recorded if you register! Curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Novel Writing w Peter Geye, Creative Nonfiction w me all on Zoom!, Memoir w Kelly Sundberg, Poetry w Heid E. Erdrich, or Fiction w Junauda Petrus?
loft.org/events/2026-...
loft.org/events/2026-...
October 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tonight on Zoom! 6-7:30 pm CDT! Also will be recorded if you register! Curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Novel Writing w Peter Geye, Creative Nonfiction w me all on Zoom!, Memoir w Kelly Sundberg, Poetry w Heid E. Erdrich, or Fiction w Junauda Petrus?
loft.org/events/2026-...
loft.org/events/2026-...
New Substack! link in bio :) Narkina 5 as an ovum...a poem by the brilliant @aracelisxgirmay ...creative writing prompt...+ a few photos from the wonderful @ConfluenceMN!
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New Substack! link in bio :) Narkina 5 as an ovum...a poem by the brilliant @aracelisxgirmay ...creative writing prompt...+ a few photos from the wonderful @ConfluenceMN!
The latest Substack newsletter open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The latest Substack newsletter open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
So You Want to Write Books for Kids?
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:30PM – 8:00PM
Part of the Our Stories, Ourselves series collaboration with More Than a Single Story that highlights BIPOC writers and artists through panel conversations and writing workshops. hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/68a7a...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:30PM – 8:00PM
Part of the Our Stories, Ourselves series collaboration with More Than a Single Story that highlights BIPOC writers and artists through panel conversations and writing workshops. hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/68a7a...
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So You Want to Write Books for Kids?
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:30PM – 8:00PM
Part of the Our Stories, Ourselves series collaboration with More Than a Single Story that highlights BIPOC writers and artists through panel conversations and writing workshops. hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/68a7a...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:30PM – 8:00PM
Part of the Our Stories, Ourselves series collaboration with More Than a Single Story that highlights BIPOC writers and artists through panel conversations and writing workshops. hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/68a7a...
New Substack with poem by the magisterial Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and prompt. Thank you, Lena. Thank you, Kazim Ali for recently reminding people to donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. www.pcrf.net
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New Substack with poem by the magisterial Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and prompt. Thank you, Lena. Thank you, Kazim Ali for recently reminding people to donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. www.pcrf.net
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
Join us on October 18th + 19th, 2025
CONFLUENCEMN.com in Minneapolis!
10:30-11:30 am / Room #341
Panel: Asian Americans in Geekdom: Celebrating and Complaining in 2025, with Bao Phi, Tri M. Vo, & me!
CONFLUENCEMN.com in Minneapolis!
10:30-11:30 am / Room #341
Panel: Asian Americans in Geekdom: Celebrating and Complaining in 2025, with Bao Phi, Tri M. Vo, & me!
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Join us on October 18th + 19th, 2025
CONFLUENCEMN.com in Minneapolis!
10:30-11:30 am / Room #341
Panel: Asian Americans in Geekdom: Celebrating and Complaining in 2025, with Bao Phi, Tri M. Vo, & me!
CONFLUENCEMN.com in Minneapolis!
10:30-11:30 am / Room #341
Panel: Asian Americans in Geekdom: Celebrating and Complaining in 2025, with Bao Phi, Tri M. Vo, & me!
“What were our bodies but a clean sheet of paper for others to inscribe their stories? In our own homes, we were inappropriate.” - @taylorbyaspoet
Gorgeous, existential, excavating new poetry collection by Taylor Byas from @softskullpress
Pub day was August 26th — Congratulations! 🎊
Gorgeous, existential, excavating new poetry collection by Taylor Byas from @softskullpress
Pub day was August 26th — Congratulations! 🎊
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“What were our bodies but a clean sheet of paper for others to inscribe their stories? In our own homes, we were inappropriate.” - @taylorbyaspoet
Gorgeous, existential, excavating new poetry collection by Taylor Byas from @softskullpress
Pub day was August 26th — Congratulations! 🎊
Gorgeous, existential, excavating new poetry collection by Taylor Byas from @softskullpress
Pub day was August 26th — Congratulations! 🎊
Hello, friends. New Substack for the week from here in Minneapolis. Appreciating everyone fighting the terrible cultures of the U.S. for a better world. bit.ly/46eCac2
August 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hello, friends. New Substack for the week from here in Minneapolis. Appreciating everyone fighting the terrible cultures of the U.S. for a better world. bit.ly/46eCac2
New Substack! open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
August 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New Substack! open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
New Substack hot off the presses, aka my fingers. This week, I am delighted to share a little bit about the beguiling work of Kim Tschang Yeul. Thank you to subscribers and anyone perusing my Substack for readers, writ… See more
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
July 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New Substack hot off the presses, aka my fingers. This week, I am delighted to share a little bit about the beguiling work of Kim Tschang Yeul. Thank you to subscribers and anyone perusing my Substack for readers, writ… See more
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
This week's Substack and creative writing prompt, and other book recommendations and personal thoughts, comes to readers thanks to the memoir Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas.
June 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This week's Substack and creative writing prompt, and other book recommendations and personal thoughts, comes to readers thanks to the memoir Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas.
I am excited to be preparing my presentation for our panel "Cross-Genre Youth Literature as a Tool to Examine and Express Liminal Identities" @ the University of Salamanca, Spain 6/23/25 w the luminous @shannongibney.bsky.social & Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen. irscl2025salamanca.usal.es
June 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I am excited to be preparing my presentation for our panel "Cross-Genre Youth Literature as a Tool to Examine and Express Liminal Identities" @ the University of Salamanca, Spain 6/23/25 w the luminous @shannongibney.bsky.social & Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen. irscl2025salamanca.usal.es
“The act of interacting with text—that is to say, of reading—is that of inserting one’s self into what is static and unchanging so that it might pump with fresh blood. Having read this introduction, I hope you will enter into Carmilla thusly, …” from the introduction by Carmen Maria Machado
May 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“The act of interacting with text—that is to say, of reading—is that of inserting one’s self into what is static and unchanging so that it might pump with fresh blood. Having read this introduction, I hope you will enter into Carmilla thusly, …” from the introduction by Carmen Maria Machado
Join me and these amazing writers! Writing the Wild is an 8-month interactive writing journey guided by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham. www.writingthewild.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Join me and these amazing writers! Writing the Wild is an 8-month interactive writing journey guided by Krissy Kludt and J. Drew Lanham. www.writingthewild.org
"Our school welcomes the dead with a mantle of petals. We have a panoply of orchards. We have everything of everything." Thank you to Guest Editor, Lee Herrick and founder Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum for featuring my poems on Poem of the Week. www.poemoftheweek.com #poetry
May 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Our school welcomes the dead with a mantle of petals. We have a panoply of orchards. We have everything of everything." Thank you to Guest Editor, Lee Herrick and founder Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum for featuring my poems on Poem of the Week. www.poemoftheweek.com #poetry
May 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It took me a minute to get to a theater but ^%#**%^^€!?!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
May 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It took me a minute to get to a theater but ^%#**%^^€!?!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Support intellectual freedom for young people, and authors and artists like @shannongibney.bsky.social and Jason Reynolds and Carolyn Holbrook. #MINNEAPOLIS ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Support intellectual freedom for young people, and authors and artists like @shannongibney.bsky.social and Jason Reynolds and Carolyn Holbrook. #MINNEAPOLIS ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
May 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thank you, East Side Freedom Library! @shannongibney.bsky.social and I had a raucous time and really good convo w community via WE BECOME OURS, co-edited by the amazing @nicolechung.bsky.social💛 Thank you bookseller @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social—we love you! 📕 🎈@harpercollins.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Thank you, East Side Freedom Library! @shannongibney.bsky.social and I had a raucous time and really good convo w community via WE BECOME OURS, co-edited by the amazing @nicolechung.bsky.social💛 Thank you bookseller @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social—we love you! 📕 🎈@harpercollins.bsky.social
#FAWK Hmong Super show was fawking awesome. This years marks 50 years of Southeast Asians in Minnesota this year. This community is incredible.
April 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#FAWK Hmong Super show was fawking awesome. This years marks 50 years of Southeast Asians in Minnesota this year. This community is incredible.
Today at 4 pm! Ride Safe Chapbook Launch Party
Sunday Apr 6th, 2025
Join us at Moon Palace Books on Sunday, April 6th at 4:00pm to celebrate the release of the Ride Safe chapbook by Josina Manu Maltzman, Featuring readings by Susan Raffo and me
www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/23810...
Sunday Apr 6th, 2025
Join us at Moon Palace Books on Sunday, April 6th at 4:00pm to celebrate the release of the Ride Safe chapbook by Josina Manu Maltzman, Featuring readings by Susan Raffo and me
www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/23810...
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today at 4 pm! Ride Safe Chapbook Launch Party
Sunday Apr 6th, 2025
Join us at Moon Palace Books on Sunday, April 6th at 4:00pm to celebrate the release of the Ride Safe chapbook by Josina Manu Maltzman, Featuring readings by Susan Raffo and me
www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/23810...
Sunday Apr 6th, 2025
Join us at Moon Palace Books on Sunday, April 6th at 4:00pm to celebrate the release of the Ride Safe chapbook by Josina Manu Maltzman, Featuring readings by Susan Raffo and me
www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/23810...
#awp2025 book haul -- I should have bought more! What was I thinking? Congratulations to @santisugi.bsky.social on his new book SMALL WARS MANUAL and looking forward to reading these books by Lily Hoang, Trista Hurley Waxali, Jacinda Townsend, Harmony Holiday...
April 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
#awp2025 book haul -- I should have bought more! What was I thinking? Congratulations to @santisugi.bsky.social on his new book SMALL WARS MANUAL and looking forward to reading these books by Lily Hoang, Trista Hurley Waxali, Jacinda Townsend, Harmony Holiday...