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Angela Liu

@angelaliu.bsky.social

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Writer/poet. Tiger mom. Hugo, Nebula, Ignyte, Rhysling, Locus, & Astounding Award finalist. She/her. Member of: SFWA, Codex, SFPA. Words in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Logic(s) https://linktr.ee/liu_angela

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · May 10

In case you missed it, I have a new story (and interview) out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“Barbershops of the Floating City” is about haircuts, growing up working class, intergenerational trauma, and how far we might go to relive our favorite memories.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...

Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine

Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6h

Man, I’d love to get better at writing humor into my stories. Sometimes I'll just read something so funny it'll pull me out of a sinkhole of a mood and I wish I could do that for someone too.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 9h

I had a story come out today!

If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you.

theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

Tasting notes

Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

theorangebee.substack.com

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 10h

very honored to have a short story in this anthology and extremely excited to be in such company❤️do check SILK & SINEW and the other works on this list out!!

Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 12h

New York Public Library names SILK & SINEW in Best New #Horror List for 2025!!!

Thank you #NYPL for this incredible honor. It means so much to be recognized by the best people-- #librarians! Contributors, YOUR words have given us the most amazing, fabulously bloody, 3-legged crow wings!!

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 9h

That's awesome! Congrats!! (will have to check if they have it at the library I usually go to!)

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 12h

Got my own golden ball from Dandadan

Golden ball with “Dandadan” printed on it, held in front of a sunny window

Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats!!! This sounds so good 👀

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 15h

Would love to work with you on your poems!

Would also love OTHERSIDE to reach their stretch goals so they can publish some fantastic new nonfiction too!

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 19h

We have some lovely rewards for you over on Kickstarter! Snag a subscription + poetry critique from the wonderful @angelaliu.bsky.social! Angela is a Nebula, Hugo, Astounding, Locus, AND Ignyte finalist—as well as a Rhysling Award recipient! And also the best.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 8d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Patty 🥹🙏🏻

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 1d

FFer Read of the Day: "Brainstem Disco, 2191" by @angelaliu.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/

Brainstem Disco, 2191 by Angela Liu

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

thanks always!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1d

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

The West Passage

Check out The West Passage - THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and...

bookshop.org

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

Oh whoa, nice. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (@undertow.bsky.social) is on New York Public Library's list of 2025 best adult horror. Many thanks to NYPL!

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

www.nypl.org

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

Man, $200/day for nursing home care, and that's WITH insurance paying 80%. What is wrong with this country.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 7d

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction.

My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 2d

Happy book birthday!! 🎊

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 4d

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 2d

I was stunned by the perfection. That opener goes hard.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 2d

@sashabrown.bsky.social is a genius (and found this thanks to @nmwhitley.bsky.social's fantastic short story recs)

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 2d

This review for Goodnight Moon is a fucking masterpiece.

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where are our families when the end comes? "Goodnight nobody," we call into the blackness.

There is no hope in the world without us. We know what will happen, when we close our eyes, to the young mouse left alone with two kittens. They will toy with him; they will torture him and leave his decapitated body on our pillow. But we will never awake to see its guts splayed out near our heads. "Goodnight air," the poem ends. "Goodnight noises everywhere." We fall, silently, into the void.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900911702

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

It’s been a long while, but I’ll be sending out my newsletter in a few days!

I'm including a poem that’s never been available online (one that’s very dear to me that I’ve always wanted to rewrite), along with all my recent short story/poetry/anime recs.

liu-angela.com/newsletter/

Newsletter

Sign up for my newsletter to get updates on new publications, books, a behind-the-scenes look behind my writing and submission process for certain stories and poems (and their inspiration), and fic…

liu-angela.com

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