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Cherry Lou Sy

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Playwright & writer. Debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU (Dutton/Penguin Random House) out now! Senior Prose Editor at Adroit Journal www.chapter1.media

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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My friend is doing a fundraiser to buy a tractor for their community garden in Bowie,AZ. Pls help www.gofundme.com/f/a-tractor-...
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Donate to A Tractor. A Gardener. Hundreds of Fresh Meals for Bowie., organized by Kathryn Ehrhorn
Hi everyone! We're Kat, Jasmine and Sasha from the little… Kathryn Ehrhorn needs your support for A Tractor. A Gardener. Hundreds of Fresh Meals for Bowie.
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 29/05/2026
"...sometimes leaving something unsaid has a chilling, powerful effect." Writing from the Chinese Diaspora and Against Self-Censorship: @cherrylousy.bsky.social interviews M Lin about The Memory Museum (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). ☁️ buff.ly/UZrTSw1
The cited information but not the quote written in white at the bottom of Lin's author photo. In the lower lefthand corner is the book cover for The Memory Museum with the full Rumpus logo overtop.
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The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Need more time to submit to the Adroit Prizes, high school & undergrad writers? We’ve extended the deadline to May 12! Send us your best through the link in our bio.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
More people should be able to read Hawaiian Pidgin! Read @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and her work!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I really appreciated this interview because it got me talking about how expectations shift when people immigrate. The idea of “good” is challenged. What does it mean to be a “good girl”?
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One of my favorite interviews I’ve done!
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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In just 14 DAYS, BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be available everywhere that books are sold! With advance praise from @cherrylousy.bsky.social, make sure to preorder a copy today if you haven't already done so! buff.ly/Vqi64Fw @susanschulman.bsky.social
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thanks so much for printing this interview @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
October is Filipino American History Month 🌺 My debut novel Love Can’t Feed You is about migration, sacrifice, and resilience. This week only (Oct 3–8), the ebook is $1.99 on Amazon. Grateful for every reader who helps keep our stories alive 💛 a.co/d/dmxuPeu
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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!
Four Ditmas Lit readers standing in front of a trompe l'oeil screen
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I’ll be reading tonight at Ditmas Lit.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Excited to read!
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 10/09/2025
Lauren Morrow’s debut novel “Little Movements” explores being a Black artist in a space not built with you in mind, and the toll of constantly having to prove your value. (@cherrylousy.bsky.social)
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The Unpredictable Choreography of Marriage, Identity, and Ambition - Electric Literature
Lauren Morrow’s “Little Movements” follows a Black choreographer who leaves her life behind to pursue her dreams
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Want to read about how debut authors talk about how their day jobs influenced their writing? mastersreview.com/in-conversat...
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In Conversation: Six Debut Authors Discuss How Their Day Jobs Inform Their Writing - The Masters Review
Six fiction authors with new novels met in an online group of debut authors. Recently, they got together to discuss how their day jobs inform their writing. Christine Ma-Kellams is a college professor...
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Congrats on a job well done! Happy pub day @missmacansantos.bsky.social !
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’ll be chatting with Eve Chung tomorrow during the softcover release of her debut novel at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Jersey City!
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'll be teaching a generative 8-week class @writingco-lab.bsky.social this April! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/four...
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Four Humours Framework: 8 Week Generative Course with Cherry Lou Sy — Writing Co-Lab
To generate new work, sometimes we must defamiliarize and remember in a different way -- and that is where this course comes in! This is an 8-week generative course where we'll be using the conce...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
in case you need to hear this today ❤️
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Joined a giant book club in Meta and one reader posted that she used AI to generate a book to gift to her daughter based on a questionnaire—all for $36. She is recommending the “service” to others. Ugh.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10/01/2025
my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged. "Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?
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Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted The Dystopia of the LA Fires By Studying History
This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed, and 5 schools burned to ash.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
@karissachen.bsky.social a bit late on the well wishes but happy pub day! Can’t wait to dive in! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726130...
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Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick by Karissa Chen: 9780593712993 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK “Sweeping and epic…An impactful love story, told against the backdrop of historical events…One of the best debut novels of this century.”—Pittsburgh...
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🍑 "These are peaches that make you feel alive." Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true! www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...
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Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit
How one family turned their peach orchard into a rallying cry for saving heirloom flavors and building community.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I’ve been focusing on reading books and listening to audiobooks. Is it worth binging the new Squid Games?
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I just found out that George Carlin voiced Thomas and Friends! The things you find out when kids are around…
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Congrats @missmacansantos.bsky.social !
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Vanity Fair highlighted LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU this month! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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6 Can’t-Miss Novels to Read in November, From Daniel M. Lavery, Cherry Lou Sy, and More
From inspired detective stories to rich family dramas, here are the books to read this month.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Most people can’t tell real poetry from AI. Can you beat our quiz?
Verses in the styles of poets such as Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath are not only mistaken for authentic works — but preferred
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU about an immigrant family from the Philippines from the POV of the 17-year-old daughter got a starred PW review, Book of the Week from People mag, and made it to Amazon’s top debut books of 2024!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Didn’t get this opportunity, but it was still such a high for a few days! I was even imagining what I would wear for my TV interview and I wanted a #wangover so bad lol
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My fellow writers in a Slack said rage writing is probably going to be the new trend in the next few years.
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fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! "
ALT: fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! "
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Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · 14/11/2024
"It’s dangerous letting yourself risk everything, but it’s what we do in love. We throw ourselves into it. And it’s perilous. It’s always perilous, even if you think you have a sure thing." — Louise Erdrich
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Episode 678: Louise Erdrich — Writer's Bone
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich returns to the show and chats with Daniel Ford about her new novel The Mighty Red.
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Just found out that Amazon Books just included my debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU in their best debut novels in 2024 list! Thank you to the editors!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
My book is a CBS NY Club Calvi finalist! As an underdog in this contest, it would mean a lot if you pick my book! Voting ends Sunday Oct 27 at 6 pm! www.cbsnews.com/newyork/esse...
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
I had a great book event this past weekend with the effervescent poet Monica Sok! Such a nourishing experience! My debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU is available now where books are sold!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I’m officially a published writer!
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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
join @cherrylousy.bsky.social and me live from @therumpus.bsky.social IG in 20 min! 💃💃💃
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Woke up this morning to find out my debut novel made it to the October roundup of Real Living with #sallyrooney and #louiseerdrich!
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
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The first US Book Prize judged entirely by incarcerated people has announced a winner.
The inaugural Inside Prize has named its first recipient—the author Imani Perry. The new book award is “a collaborative project of Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, Center for Just…
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
Enter to win a copy! bit.ly/3xwVvHb
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Book giveaway for Love Can't Feed You by Cherry Lou Sy Jul 09-Jul 23, 2024
Enter to win one of 30 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 09-Jul 23, 2024. Enter for the chance to win an advance readers copy of this stunni...
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
At the heels of July 4, I thought about this short excerpt from my debut novel…
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
How does everyone remember to post on all the platforms!? I forgot to mention that there’s a goodreads giveaway for my debut novel: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... #goodreads #aapi #debutauthor
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Forgot to post the cover reveal of my novel from the publisher! Preorders available: bit.ly/lovecantfeed...
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 07/11/2023
Can't stop thinking about Le Guin on children's literature, it resonates a lot with discussions I've had with my 10yo about why he prefers non-fiction books. He says fiction "wants to teach [him] a sneaky lesson all the time", and with non-fic you don't get the runaround.
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"I made a note to myself a while ago: 'Whenever they tell me children what this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I'm going to smile and politely shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. What children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them" 
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"Most fiction for kids and young adults is reviewed as if it existed in order to deliver a useful little sermon —"Grow-ing up is tough but you can make it." "Popularity is not all it's cracked up to be." "Drugs are dangerous.""
"the movement of the story as read, in an inexpressible sense of discovery, rather than a tidy bit of advice?"
"The notion that a story "has a message" assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarised in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review."
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Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
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'A Plague on the Industry': Book Publishing's Broken Blurb System
Do authors actually like the books they endorse—or even read them? Writers, literary agents, and publishing workers take Esquire inside the story of a problematic "favor economy."
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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.” — Patti Smith
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