iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

new_sinews

@new-sinews.bsky.social

97 followers 45 following 43 posts

newnewsinews.com late empire new writing // edited by @illepitaph.bsky.social // issue8 now showing

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by new_sinews

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with. www.pw.org/content/lite... @graywolfpress.bsky.social @diggingpress.com @new-sinews.bsky.social @talkvomit.bsky.social

Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong

The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.

Reposted by new_sinews

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Asymptote has some amazing suggestions for TBR piles around the world. I wrote about Chi Zijian’s marvelous novel of Evenki reindeer herders, The Last Quarter of the Moon, translated from Chinese by Bruce Humes @milkweededitions.bsky.social www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

a high lyric fictive sequence ... as assuredly rhythmic as it is philosophically rich ... "Entries" by Zachary Gary ... new_sinews issue9 newnewsinews.com/entries

newnewsinews.com

zachary_gary ~ entries — new_sinews

_ZACHARY GARY_fiction_ENTRIES_new_sinews_issue9_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

retrofuturistic diagnoses ... apportioned into clinically incisive increments ... "A Chronology of the Not Too Distant Future" by Lisa Hsiao Chen.. new_sinews issue9 newnewsinews.com/chronology

newnewsinews.com

lisa_hsiao_chen ~ a_chronology_of_the_not-too-distant_future — new_sinews

_Lisa Hsiao Chen_fiction_A CHRONOLOGY OF THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE_new_sinews_issue9_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

meticulously rhythmic tale of procuring employment ... full of booze & colors & mythic precision ... "Shortbread" by @zebulonhourse.bsky.social ... new_sinews issue9 newnewsinews.com/shortbread

newnewsinews.com

zebulon_horse ~ shortbread — new_sinews

_Zebulon Horse_fiction_SHORTBREAD_news_sinews_issue9_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

meandering poem-staggered-within-its-own-singular-poem-ness ... as inclusive as it is evasive ... "Blazes (Trails)" by Hannah Brooks-Motl ... new_sinews issue9 newnewsinews.com/blazes

newnewsinews.com

hannah_brooks-motl ~ blazes (trails) — new_sinews

_HANNAH BROOKS-MOTL_poetry_BLAZES (TRAILS)_new_sinews_issue9_

Reposted by new_sinews

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

They’re here!! Pub day is 17 Feb 2026! Cover and interior art by Kathryn Eddy. Production of gorgeous book-object by @graywolfpress.bsky.social Thank you all so much for all your meticulous work. 💙🐙

Reposted by new_sinews

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Bunch of sinews just dropped. Newest you will be able to find.

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

new_sinews issue9 is now live ... FEATURING: @zebulonhourse.bsky.social <> Hannah Brooks-Motl + @israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen + @brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <> @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social newnewsinews.com/issue9

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews issue9

_newsinews issue9_Zebulon Horse+Hannah Brooks-Motl+Israel Bonilla+Lisa Hsiao Chen+Brandon Shimoda+Zachary Gary+Gabriel Palacios+Amelia Moriarty+Zack Darsee+Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Reposted by new_sinews

Zebulon Hearse @zebulonhourse.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

@new-sinews.bsky.social issue 9 starts with my short ”Shortbread”, and in great company www.newnewsinews.com/issue9

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews issue9

_newsinews issue9_Zebulon Horse+Hannah Brooks-Motl+Israel Bonilla+Lisa Hsiao Chen+Brandon Shimoda+Zachary Gary+Gabriel Palacios+Amelia Moriarty+Zack Darsee+Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Reposted by new_sinews

Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Many thanks to Steve Barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social l at new_sinews for giving such a perfect home to “fragmen - lamen / tations,” an essay from my forthcoming collection, Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (17 Feb 2026 from @graywolfpress.bsky.social). www.newnewsinews.com/tations

newnewsinews.com

mandy-suzanne_wong ~ fragmen / lamen - tations — new_sinews

_Mandy-Suzanne Wong_essay_fragmen / lamen - tations_news_sinews_issue9_

Reposted by new_sinews

Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

There's a new excerpt from my first novel, Our Saturnalias, over at @new-sinews.bsky.social. A warm thank you to @illepitaph.bsky.social. You can read it here: newnewsinews.com/issue9/actaeon

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

[ . . . new_sinews issue9 cover preview . . . ]

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

coolly compulsive neo-epistolary novel ... chockfull of comically curlicuing texture ... with the amazingly assured artificiality of the "letter-ness" branching into all manner of reverberant riffs regarding the present day's ridiculousness

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

He could not remember where he had heard it before, the idea of one side of the Pacific as dream, the other reality. But which was reality and which dream? @alvinlu.bsky.social ~ THE WHITE ALBUM ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/album

newnewsinews.com

alvin_lu ~ the white album — new_sinews

_Alvin Lu_fiction_THE WHITE ALBUM_news_sinews_issue8_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"Squall Path" ... a horizontally-printed poem by new_sinews contributor Yongyu Chen in Volume 59 Number 1 of Denver Quarterly 🧐

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The rain which had just topped o’er… The rain which continued to unveil in the hopes of solar switch… The rain which was a bead… The rain which saw a death… Elise Houcek ~ 8 POEMS ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/houcek

newnewsinews.com

elise_houcek ~ to be totally distant ++ is the tone of cruel ++ — new_sinews

_Elise Houcek_poetry_8 POEMS_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today's Featured Poem: An excerpt from A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby (@ursalockaby.bsky.social), published by Ghost Proposal (@ghostproposal.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/a-seam-...

A Seam of Electricity (excerpt)

Language is breaking apart in our hands.

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

someone came to the AWP table Thursday & i was showing 'em new_sinews on my laptop.. then they came back Friday saying they'd rlly enjoyed reading the site ... esp. "Father Figure" by Andrea Harper.. total new_sinews staple! a kind of technofable.. newnewsinews.com/father

newnewsinews.com

andrea_harper ~ father_figure — new_sinews

_Andrea Harper_fiction_FATHER FIGURE_news_sinews_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Video of a reading I gave during the @new-sinews.bsky.social offsite reading at AWP! This is an excerpt from my book 'The Veldt Institute', forthcoming with Double Negative Press in September 2025. Thanks to Jesse Chappelle (video) and Steve Barbaro (organizer) youtu.be/o01D7MI6Vs4

Samuel M. Moss reading from 'The Veldt Institute'

YouTube video by Sam Moss

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

new_sinews stalwart Gabriel Palacios mesmerizing the rather raucous crowd @ the @fonografeditions.bsky.social ++ Futurepoem ++ Wonder reading last Saturday evening ... @ the charismatic Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown LA🧐🔊

Reposted by new_sinews

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

First time to read from my upcoming novel Daydreamers last week. Thank you @nameofauthor.bsky.social @illepitaph.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social @taiwaneseamerican.bsky.social for inviting me. And thank you @alinaetc.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social for the pics!

Me and Addison Zeller reading simultaneously at the new_sinews gig.

Reposted by new_sinews

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Me and @addisonzeller.bsky.social at the @new-sinews.bsky.social event, reading in sync from a parallel simultaneous-text section of my forthcoming novel, Daydreamers. Thanks Addison and @illepitaph.bsky.social for hosting!

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

1st piece for new_sinews issue9 hath been secured! exciting.. tons of work 2 go 2 follow issue8.. meantime submissions are rather ajar.. open to anything ofc.. but especially: longer form fiction & essays ... details: newnewsinews.com/about

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews about page

new_sinews ~ late empire new writing ~ submissions info + imagistic mosaistry

Reposted by new_sinews

Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We'll be at #AWP25, hanging at T925 with @new-sinews.bsky.social! And if you're just around for readings, well, we have an easy and excellent option for your Thursday night, too, featuring contributors Timmy Straw, @aditimachado.bsky.social, Monroe Lawrence, Talin Tahajian, and Tasia Trevino!

Reposted by new_sinews

Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A passage from Sleep Decades: asterismbooks.com/product/slee...

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

another gem from the archives—& to my mind somehow maybe *the* essential anchor-text orienting everything new_sinews has published ... a poem sprawling amazingly assuredly into its own vast uncategorizability ... RETRIEVE THE DUSK by Vi Khi Nao newnewsinews.com/dusk

newnewsinews.com

vi_khi_nao ~ retrieve_the_dusk — new_sinews

_Vi Khi Nao_poetry_RETRIEVE THE DUSK_new_sinews_issue3_

Reposted by new_sinews

Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Keep an eye out for @alvinlu.bsky.social's novel DAYDREAMERS, coming in July! You can pre-order now! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366212...

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

you are like a painting I could’ve grown up with if I were plantagenet and wouldn’t replace the problems I had with the problems you would bring me Valerie Hsiung ~ 9 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 www.newnewsinews.com/issue8/drug

newnewsinews.com

valerie_hsiung ~ it's giving off deep earth ++ to make a concertina the shape of a gasket ++ — new_sinews

_Valerie Hsiung_poetry_9 POEMS_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

March 27, Los Angeles, in the Neuromantic-sounding neighborhood of Skid-Tokyo, a bit of the Old Hollywood glamour and menace …

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

new_sinews Skid Tokyo awp offsite reading!! 3/27 @ The Escondite in downtown LA .. 410 Boyd Street ... doors 5 reading 6 (5-8 also === Happy Hour @ The Escondite) .. featuring: Gabriel Palacios ... @alvinlu.bsky.social ... Allison Hummel @illepitaph.bsky.social ... @perfidiousscript.bsky.social

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

For several moments, they drily rub their mouths against each other. The audience oooohs and aaaaahs. They pull away from each other, completely placid. Abigail Denton ~ POST-CREDITS SCENE ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/credits

newnewsinews.com

abigail_denton ~ post-credits scene — new_sinews

_ABIGAIL DENTON_fiction_POST-CREDITS SCENE_new_sinews_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

Annulet @annulet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There's one more day of our micro-reading period for submissions to our upcoming folio, "American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025"—send your essays (or if not an essay, a very thought through query) by March 1st! annuletpoeticsjournal.com/CFP-American...

annuletpoeticsjournal.com

CFP: American Poetry & Poetics 2008–2025 — Annulet

Open Reading Period/CFP: American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025 Between January 15th–March 1st, Annulet is open for a...

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

from the archive: issue5: fires, deities, labyrinths, biodata, villages, notebooks, foxes, borders, fate, torture, solitude, pics, fires, wine, privacy, blurs, ancestors, titanomachy, icecream, hell, sun, fires, owls, souls +++++ newnewsinews.com/issue5

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews issue5

_newsinews issue5_Julia Shiota+Mike Corrao+Vi Khi Nao+Jessica Alexander+Samuel Moss+Steven Alvarez+Jaqueline Feldman+Alvin Lu+Delia Rainey+Paul Bisagni

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"At the base of the interface I witness a cinematic series of dreams. The shift from sitemap to labyrinthine floor plans. The excavation of the digital badlands..." mike_corrao ~ THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VIRTUAL SPACES ~ from the archives newnewsinews.com/corrao

newnewsinews.com

mike_corrao ~ the_archaelogy_of_virtual_spaces — new_sinews

_Mike Corrao_THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF VIRTUAL SPACES_fiction_new_sinews _issue2_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The discourse: a treaty that a trick of light undoes. When I peer off toward what seems to be its edge’s lip, I meet in me a whirl of faces looking aside & smirking intermittently Logan Fry ~ 6 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/fry

newnewsinews.com

logan_fry ~ an If unfixed ++ all kinetic in rectitude ++ — new_sinews

_Logan Fry_poetry_6 POEMS_issue8_

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

you should read new_sinews issue8 if you've not already ... so many modes of substantial writing—poems; fiction; an essay; even 2 plays ... & all types of temporality too—the present; the future; even antiquity newnewsinews.com/issue8

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews issue8

_newsinews issue8_Andrea Harper+Yongyu Chen+Cary Stough+Logan Fry+Abigail Denton+Valerie Hsiung+Alvin Lu+Elise Houcek+Gabriel Palacios+Israel Bonilla

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Are we in the disaster? We are. A reality we don’t need to read about. We can’t even imagine how it could be worse than it is. We can’t even imagine how bad it truly is half the time. @carystough.bsky.social ~ NAILS ~ new_sinews_issue8 www.newnewsinews.com/nails

newnewsinews.com

cary_stough ~ nails — new_sinews

_Cary Stough_lyric~memoir_NAILS_new_sinews_issue6_

Reposted by new_sinews

Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Maitonaut @kuuhulluutta.bsky.social From Perfect Blue remix to Kunming nighttrain moodboard, these poems/stories seem out of a young woman's cyborg-eroguro vision of literature, "unmeasured by cartographers". Sign you've encountered something great tho: you realize you're doing it all wrong.

Reposted by new_sinews

kaisa @kuuhulluutta.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

this has been a year of obsessing over various milky substances maitonaut, my dairy girl elegy from august (new_sinews), remains widely available online: newnewsinews.com/books/maitonaut a more botanical afterimage is under cultivation xx

Reposted by new_sinews

steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Billy Mills reviews a slew of new poem-books including my debut, PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE ... Mills finds PLANE "a reviewer’s nightmare of a book" (fair enough!).. yet Mills still claims the book's "definitely 1 of the most interesting visual/poetry (or visual poetry) ones I’ve read in a while"

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Around language, what is it that giant mass, darkly calcifying, now obdurate, but not unalterable. Yongyu Chen ~ 5 poems ~ new_sinews_issue8 newnewsinews.com/issue8/memory

newnewsinews.com

yongyu_chen ~ maybe you can tell the memory ++ is hurried, or foamed, or carving — new_sinews

_YONGYU CHEN_poetry_5 POEMS_new_sinews_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

Israel A. Bonilla @israelbonilla.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

An excerpt from Our Saturnalias: www.newnewsinews.com/issue8/bonilla. I recommend following @new-sinews.bsky.social: it's a first-rate magazine with a great writer as its editor.

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

check it out: "Father Figure" by Andrea Harper—the first piece i took for issue8 ... & what pushed me into really getting going on the issue ... a kind of ominous techno-fairy-tale.. robustly cynical on several fronts newnewsinews.com/issue8/father

newnewsinews.com

andrea_harper ~ father_figure — new_sinews

_Andrea Harper_fiction_FATHER FIGURE_news_sinews_issue8_

Reposted by new_sinews

steve barbaro @illepitaph.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

don't think i ever even posted this here but—my 1st book is out.. PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE.. poems on top of photomontage backgrounds.. glossy pages ++ rambunctious assemblings.. all written & designed by me.. ~15 years in the making! www.newnewsinews.com/plane

newnewsinews.com

steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — new_sinews

steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — a collection of poems with deep photomontage backgrounds — new_sinews

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

MAITONAUT by Kaisa Saarinen out now!! order link below ... fiction+++poetry🥳—& an ideally sui generis extension of the new_sinews reality ... file under: Herbs; Sacrifice; Knives; Milk; Horizons; Metamorphoses; Masks; Ghosts +++++++ newnewsinews.com/books/maitonaut

newnewsinews.com

kaisa saarinen — maitonaut — new_sinews

kaisa saarinen — maitonaut — fiction +++ poems — new_sinews

new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

new_sinews ... ... issue8 ... ... is now live ... ... FEATURING: Andrea Harper + Yongyu Chen + Cary Stough + Logan Fry + Abigail Denton + Valerie Hsiung + Alvin Lu + Elise Houcek + Gabriel Palacios + Israel Bonilla newnewsinews.com/issue8

newnewsinews.com

new_sinews issue8

_newsinews issue8_Andrea Harper+Yongyu Chen+Cary Stough+Logan Fry+Abigail Denton+Valerie Hsiung+Alvin Lu+Elise Houcek+Gabriel Palacios+Israel Bonilla