caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Manila in the Cradle of Light" is now available to read in the Fall 2026 Issue from @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social! A feel-good sci-fi short story about typhoons, bangka, friendship, food trips, and Ligaya!tractorbeam.earthManila in the Cradle of Light | Tractor BeamWhy is that baby typhoon following you? 145
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026omg the artworks for my new sci-fi short in Tractor Beam look incredible 😭💜 huge shoutout to the artist @/lydia_ortiz over on Instagram 041
Reposted by caroline hungTanvir Ahmed @tanawir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The perfect season to go on a jaunt with some lonely monsters tearing up the highlands (and to tear a little into the megalith's profits, too)bookshop.orgThe Night Sweeps the Mountains AwayOne evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The... 077
Reposted by caroline hungNico Martinez Nocito 🏳️⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/20266. “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social in @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social An extraordinary poem that blends erasure, haibun, and prose poetry into a delicious, vivid concoction. Dark and bloody and weird, unafraid of itself. I loved every syllable.speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.coSpec Colorways in Versea zine and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry 254
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026omg!! thank you so much for the review, i'm so happy!! 110
Reposted by caroline hungpiamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026enjoyed this one a lot. when life gives u lemons. or ig doesnt 🍋 045
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Happy Fall! Spooky season is upon us! I'm excited to share that my cutely horrific angel flash story "EVERYTHING IS FINE" will be published in the first volume of the Baneberry Book of Horror. Preorder link is here www.amazon.com/dp/1068054611 164
Reposted by caroline hungChristopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Issue 6 of Tractor Beam is out! The water issue: www.tractorbeam.earth/issue/hell-o... #scifi #clifi #solarpunk #soilpunktractorbeam.earthHell or High | Tractor BeamA seasonal publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil 033
Reposted by caroline hungIf There's Anyone Left @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026BEHOLD! Dive into the world of Unhidden: Infinite by @elismontgomery.bsky.social www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/unhiddeninfi...iftheresanyoneleft.comUnhidden: Infinite DLC — IfTheresAnyoneUnhidden: Infinite Wiki 151
Reposted by caroline hungVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.chuffed.orgFood & Water x The Sameer ProjectTranslating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water... 1212297
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 13/08/2026sea urchin, puffer fish, octopus, rooster, snake, snail all come to mind 010
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Site updates, so "love note from my guardian angel" by @carolinehung.bsky.social is now freely available to read there early (or the link to the folder where broadsides + audio will appear): speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#poems 🫶🏾 If ya enjoy, share with us or anyone you thinks alright and would too. 032
Reposted by caroline hungTenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🔥eBOOK SALE🔥 I (Matt) am currently locked indoors w/150+ AQI & forest fires ablazin' across the PNW. We know that's been a lot of you all over the world too. We need some instant gratification sooooo: 50% ALL EBOOKS! Emailed instantly. Read Weird🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...store.tenebrouspress.come-BooksIndependent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult. 24745
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I received cute stickers from @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social 😊🌈 thank you so much!! 010
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Our second poem "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung is shocking and tender. When we designed broadside, had ideas for adding accents but it naturally came together minimalist, its words' artistry plenty 'nough. www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... #WriterShareWednesday #WeeknightWriterspatreon.comPoem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung | Spec Colorways In VersePoem 2: “love note from my guardian angel” by Caroline Hung by Spec Colorways In Verse on Patreon. Join Spec Colorways In Verse's community for exclusive content and updates. 074
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026hot off the grill is my weirdly romantic haibun/blackout poem "love note from my guardian angel" only at Spec Colorways In Verse!! 🌈 purchase the digital broadside or get a subscription to receive many more amazing poems coming soon from my fellow contributors www.patreon.com/collection/2... (3/3) 000
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026my weird horror short "Ticket po mamser" is in this year's BRAVE NEW WEIRD anthology 🖤 and of course, shoutout to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for being the first to champion this story in their 10/2/25 issue store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra... (2/3) 131
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026it's a double release week for me! celebrating the Weird and Queer with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social, please do support these amazing presses if you can! (1/3) 🧵 184
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! so honored and happy to be part of Spec Colorways!!! 😊💜 022
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's almost time to feast 🔔, who's hungry? 022
Reposted by caroline hungTenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026👽💀Into the Weird we go once again💀👽 BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, is OUT NOW! 23 of the finest & Weirdest stories of 2025. Congrats to all this year's winners🖤☠️ Get BRAVE NEW WEIRD wherever books are sold, or direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com 04123
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Our 2nd poem/broadside, “love note from my guardian angel” by @carolinehung.bsky.social, is live Jul 17 at noon! 💌🫦🍽️ Not subscribed? Purchase the individual post (including an author recording) when it's up for $4—or right now, the '26 Poems + Q&As Collection for $14: www.patreon.com/cw/SpecColor... 024
Reposted by caroline hungkhōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We have hit 20% of our fundraising goal and there is only two weeks left to donate! Help support the next year of khōréō here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... 02031
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026gods this new story by Boon Carmen is WILD.... khōréō just keeps publishing the best of SFF/H from immigrant & diaspora authors The era of genAI slop is a great time to support indie mags !! As a nonprofit led by volunteers, khōréō relies on donations to operate➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho... 131
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 20/06/2026what an emotional and musical piece from Dkéama! support Queer and Black poetry 🫵🌈 010
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026🌠❤️Happy Juneteenth! And what dis?! Our first poem! Do add "MOKO"'s liberation rhythm to your celebration playlist: www.patreon.com/SpecColorway... 💚🌊 💐Dkéama Alexis💐 Support queer BIPOC spec poets by sharing, subscribing, tipping on ko-fi.com/speccolorway... #CaribbeanHeritage #Juneteenth #Pridepatreon.comPoem 1: “MOKO” by Dkéama Alexis | Spec Colorways In Verselisten to Dkéama read “MOKO” below! 🖤💚♥️✊🏾♥️💚🖤 Dkéama Alexis is a Black trans—writer, dreamtender, death doula, and bricoleur living on unce 075
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"love note from my guardian angel" is my god-eating poem that combines Haibun and Blackout poetry. Available July 17th only for Patreon members of @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social ! Audio included narrated by the Angel itself 🙂 www.patreon.com/SpecColorway...patreon.com 021
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 16/06/2026just kidding about the cannibals but there is god eating involved 000
Reposted by caroline hungSpec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026📯Announcing our '26 lineup📯 @carolinehung.bsky.social @gailguerrero.bsky.social "Moko" by Dkéama Alexis will be available to all subscribers. (Onward, paid tiers [$3–5] & $4-post-purchasers will have access to poems—digital broadsides & audio recordings.) patreon.com/SpecColorway... 054
Reposted by caroline hungTenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 08/05/2026🖤☠️MEET @carolinehung.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ The plane is now boarding. Thank you for choosing to flee war with us today; we hope you have a pleasant flight. Please be sure you have your "Ticket po mamser." handy. Preorder The Best New Weird Horror v4: store.tenebrouspress.com 0185
Reposted by caroline hungStrange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Congratulations to all the Hugo Award finalists! Strange Horizons is grateful for everyone who helped us become a finalist in the Best Semiprozine category: authors, voters, our entire readership, and everyone else who keeps us in mind as an SFF publication to read and submit to! ❤️ 24210
Reposted by caroline hungFANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/04/2026'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale... 1638436
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I'm so grateful and honored to be in Reckoning's special issue!! Maraming salamat po!! 163
Reposted by caroline hungReckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "In the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning]" by Bahar Davoudi, a poem that goes incredibly hard affirming life in the face of violence reckoning.press/in-the-video...reckoning.pressIn the Video: A Woman with Her Newborn [Content Warning] | ReckoningWhy don’t these people stop having babies during a war, under the air strike? —A comment under the video In other words, why don’t they stand at their windows, watch the offerings of fire falling from... 084
Reposted by caroline hungReckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026IT WAS PARADISE, our long-awaited special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, is out today in ebook form, and the print edition is up for preorder! Edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and with (terrifying) war monster art by @monarobot.bsky.social! reckoning.press/it-was-parad... 17835
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 17/02/2026新年快樂! 🧧 Happy Year of the Fire Horse. This is my story about a mechanical horse that loves arson and revolution 🔥free text and audio available @khoreo.bsky.social issue 3.4khoreomag.comRAIN FIRE CLOUDOn the seven hundredth Day of Founding, the Imperial Sun Palaces open their gates for a joyous celebration, broadcasted live to every corner of the Heavenly Empire. The sleek automobiles roll in throu... 174
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I'm obsessed with that cover..... so grateful to be part of the ToC!! ✈️ 011
Reposted by caroline hungGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 28/11/2025In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones. Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed — strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...strangehorizons.comPhoton Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim ViolenceDragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b… 15637
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 20/11/2025get XANAX HAMSTER!!! sick ass zines by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social 💥 frombeyondpress.com/product/xana...frombeyondpress.comXanax Hamster December 2024 | From Beyond Press 020
Reposted by caroline hungJoyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions. And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers! If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit! Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous: Taiwanese aborigines. Ainu. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...strangehorizons.comIndigenous Author SubmissionsOn November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500. 03527
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 29/10/2025super happy and grateful that people have read "Ticket po mamser." I remember being worried about writing some of the dialogue in Tagalog. It must have been gibberish to everyone else but I'm just glad I got the chance to do something like this 020
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social · 10/10/2025just please tell me you understand kiddo #Peacetober2025 Day 10: Pots 000
, Nilā’s “The Song of the Interdimensional Traveller” (9/4), & Abigail Guerrero’s “Fungal Avocation” (11/6). Beneath that an image showing "Our 4 Core Considerations" (authenticity, imagination, wow factor, and language) and then statement: (If you have access needs [e.g., plain text] or be a reviewer/hyper-of-poetry type,
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![A new blurb screencapped from Caroline's author website. The text reads as follows:
"Greetings, beautiful sinner. You are most cordially invited to the wedding of [redacted] and [redacted] on the 17th of July. Cash gifts only. No child guests allowed unless cooked and served al dente. See you there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:naydka2xqr77qbyciq5lgsrw/bafkreicbwuwrbynkkglxzwscmxjpov2umldh4hv5xebuxsokmuczqjoipe)
![Preview of Spec Colorways broadside for "love note from my guardian angel" by Caroline Hung, a haibun/blackout, showing title and first line of blackout: "Hail [blacked out], full of [blacked out] you;"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynoaws4ejwzsca25rkdkmdjd/bafkreihkhr7bgi2t5umxveietq6gjvzxx3ypsyaqbfeio2guznjlbj3wqq)
