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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · Sep 1

new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/

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Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 4d

The @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter is starting the week at $5,797, only $203 away from 30% of our initial goal and opening to nonfiction submissions! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

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

www.kickstarter.com

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 5d

but i think its so affecting so much because its just that uncynical view of the world you had as a child

claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 5d

nowadays those storylines are (rightfully) complicated by questions like well were your parents actually good people and are the hyenas actually ontologically evil and should the structure of your kingdom even exist

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 5d

i think it opened a nostalgia in me for the simplicity of a story thats just like. the ones we love never really leave us and if we stay true to ourselves we can do right by them.

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 5d

watched the lion king musical and my shit was rocked

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

@queenlua.bsky.social help me

claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

aksjfaoefamd;sl omfg angela im so glad you liked evil mecha gfs?? hope you enjoy algorithm too >:D

claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

cravat guy in ace attorney

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

whos the viking equivalent of edgeworth

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 9d

The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE!

Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

ahh thank you vanessa!!

claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 9d

honored to be among such incredible company! i loved @angelaliu.bsky.social and @awprihandita.bsky.social's stories, and can't wait to check out the rest

Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 10d

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
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Short fiction recs! July and August 2025

It’s the last day of September, and this round-up is way overdue. Some things I read and loved in July and August. Strange Tales o...

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 10d

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 12d

In case you need a story about two people who don’t quite fit in anywhere who find each other, here’s my time traveler love story.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Time is an Ocean

The time traveler arrives at the door with a broken time machine and a promise: “If you let me stay, I’ll take you wherever you want.”

strangehorizons.com

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 11d

ahh thank you so much!! celestial migrations esp was one of my quieter stories on release, im always so chuffed to hear that people liked it

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ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social · 13d

I can't tell you all enough how enduring, heart-aching and beautiful @clairejiawen.bsky.social latest story is in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Toxic yuri, giant mechs, but at the heart of it, a story of giving in to the system if it means you won't be alone

"I draw; the machine makes monsters."

Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You by Claire Jia-Wen

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 11d

omg ash??? thank you so much, made my day 🥹

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 15d

ohohoho this was such a delightful story..the payoffs are great (i gasped so many times), the interweaving of tenses and perspectives is so seamless, and i /will/ be studying the way you put scenes against each other, the structure is just so so good

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Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social · 26d

it’s been two weeks today since my newest story came out, and I’m still not over it:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins by Louis Inglis Hall

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 18d

“Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures and Attraction Is When I Do It for You” by @clairejiawen.bsky.social sees the lead pulled between career, sister, and lover, with fraught decision-making and excellent interpersonal tension clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 15d

thanks so much!! the 'it's what it says on the tin' part of the review gave me a chuckle

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 16d

hello im back with my first story since uhhhhh that one with the holes. this isnt like that. except in the ways that a portal is a hole. or perhaps. the entire ocean.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 16d

A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light-years away.

"Freediver" by @isabel.kim is out now at Reactor!

reactormag.com/freediver-is...

Freediver - Reactor

A two-man team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light years away.

reactormag.com

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claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social · 17d

so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world

Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to announce that we've acquired "In the Wake of Whales" by @clairejiawen.bsky.social for FF#28!

Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.

"In the Wake of Whales" by Claire Jia-Wen: the dead, revived by AI / environmentalism / is it him?

This text is overlaid on a photo of a whale, emerging from the water.

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 18d

The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!

Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

a magazine of the queer fantastic.

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