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Ash Huang

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Writer, three pep talks in a trench coat • Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, Apparition, Orion’s Belt • SLF Diverse Worlds Grant ‘22, RWW, Tin House (workshop + reading fellow), Periplus • Rep: @hel-no-wai.bsky.social • ashsmash.com

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 23d

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine

To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek, away from the hard light of the moon at its roundest, away from the snow-flecked wind, away from the ba...

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 2d

also sorry to divide this up like I'm catfishing for ur clicks, I would have just made it one post if it were possible

Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 2d

is being able to regard these kinds of events or milestones with the same enthusiasm as when they first happened to me. It's been ~5 years since I got my first personal story rejection and every one I get, I try to be as surprised, excited, and honored to receive one as that first rejection

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 2d

I have this short story I have affection for, but it is a little Weird. I sent it out on a whim bc it hasn't been out in a while, and got a super lovely personal rejection. I am by personality probably a doomer (I mean, look around??? wtf???) but I have found the key to being a happy writer for me ⬇️

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 4d

yes please

sunyi @handle.invalid · 4d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 8d

There are FOUR days left to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!

Writers Who Live Outside of the United States: We will be offering fifteen scholarships for writers who reside outside of the United States.

Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...

Media description: An ad for an online writing workshop. Text reads: 2026 Winter Online Workshop, Writers Who Live Outside of the United States Scholarship, Feb 7 - 16, Applications due Oct 6th, Tin House Workshop

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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 10d

Did you think I was kidding when I said this book is amazing and you should preorder it now? Kudos to coeditors @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social, and our incredible roster of writers and activists, for creating such a marvellous work!

Library Journal Starred Review

We Will Rise Again:
Speculative Stories and
Essays on Protest,
Resistance, and Hope
Saga. Dec. 2025. 384p. ed. by Karen Lord and others. ISBN
9781668095959. pbk. $20. SCIENCE FICTION
Inspired by the groundbreaking anthology Octavia’s Brood, editors Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older present a new collection of essays from current agents for social change, along with visionary and speculative fiction set in alternate worlds where people are fighting the good fight against injustice and oppression. Standouts include Laia Asieo Odo’s “Where Memory Meets the Sea,” a heartbreaker about the manipulation of history and the crush of grief; Jaymee Goh’s “A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Citadel,” a wryly satirical story about sanctioned rebellions carried out with the application of a flock of harpies; and Charlie Jane Anders’s “Realer Than Real,” which examines the enforcement of gender norms. Other stories explore social activism, collective action, the fear of change, the possibility of hope along multiple axes from community justice to anarchism, human rights across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and for people with disabilities, the difficulty of combatting crisis fatigue, and the desperation to make others see what they’d prefer to avoid.
VERDICT: This thought-provoking and inspiring collection is highly recommended for readers looking for visions that represent hope and change, as well as anyone who loves the work of Octavia Butler.
— Reviewed by Marlene Harris , Oct 01, 2025

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 10d

Bookmark and Bookplate reveal for 🌬️🌊⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY 🌬️🌊⚙️

April 21, 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

If you preorder A RIVER FROM THE SKY and fill out the form in my bio, you can get a bookmark & bookplate along with the art cards!! (Indie bookstore preorder campaign info coming soon!)

A River from the Sky bookmarks with the cover art

A River from the Sky signed bookplate with cover elements as the design

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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 11d

an otherside kickstarter bumpersticker that reads: "honk if you love materially supporting 2slgbtquia+ art in the face of censorship and relentless hostility"

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 21d

I'm teaching a class on basic story structure at the fabulous Write Space in Orange, NJ on October 21st from 7-9pm--more info and signup: bit.ly/4296vX0

Flyer advertising a writing class called NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING ON A SOLID FOUNDATION, illustrated by an angry cat writing on a clipboard.

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 21d

newsletter ~ happy friday y'all
buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...

Your creativity is benevolent, and you can always return to it

Scenes from the summer, a new publication, an upcoming reading, a pep talk about returning to yourself

buttondown.com

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 23d

🙏🏼 thank you so much, Tara, and for the kickass prompt + guiding us all through this generative exercise!!!

Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 23d

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Aug 21

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

PERIPLUS: An FAQ

PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 29d

I’m a fairly confident knitter trying to learn a little crochet and wow. You people are just lawless aren’t you

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Sep 6

We love new book day, congrats @catherineyuwrites.bsky.social !! horror and betrayal in the high pressure cooker of a prestigious ballet academy, this will definitely end super good for every character I’m sure

Holding a hardback edition of Catherine Yu’s THE DEVIL’S IN THE DANCERS which features a spotlight on three ballet dancers with two ominous clawed shadows

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.

Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · Sep 2

The new issue is out! We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world.

www.lunastationquart...

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a half facetious question but: Why is every horror writer I meet the sunniest person alive

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 27

Now that's what I'm talking about when I say "move fast and break things" lol

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 21

Go read the novella that really hurt my detached-from-my-origins feelings, and made me cry a lot (affectionate)

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 21

ICYMI; THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, my British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning novella about a 'boy from nowhere' coming of age in 90s/00s Calcutta, in a family that may be refugees from another reality, in a house that may be a dragons' nest, is now available in S. Asia.

Cover for the South Asian edition of The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das, showing the title and name of the author (me) in white text over a painting of a dragon coiled around a tree, almost becoming one entity, in the courtyard of an old central/north Calcutta house, seen through an arched door with stained glass window inset. The light is dusky blue throughout the painting, the colour of the sky after sunset.

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 20

After page 78, I was so locked in, I will follow this book anywhere it wants to go now

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally reading this. Absolutely lost it during the resigned apes smoking joints scene.

A paperback copy of Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water on a wooden table

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 17

When I saw you vault that couch w camera in hand I knew the photos would all be amazing 😂💜 tytyty

Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank yew @itsamia.bsky.social 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 muahahahaha

Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 16

LARK LMAOOOOOO

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · Aug 15

Correct link this time :) Workshops panel tomorrow at 10:30! seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

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Worldcon features hundreds of hours of panel programming presented by hundreds of panelists, covering such diverse subjects as science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, costuming, art, writing, genre...

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