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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

my ARCs arrived!!📚 release for SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US is 5/4/27! reviewers/interviewers, dm if you’re interested in a copy!

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

SOON YOU’ll BE JUST LIKE US cover reveal! coming may 4th, 2027: a sci-fi thriller about a young korean american journalist who seeks status & security in a patriarchal, hierarchical society through beauty and medical experimentation—then learns she signed on for more than she or her body can handle

book cover of a beautiful asian woman’s face, digitally smeared on the left side, against a backdrop of soft cosmetic shades

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

open call for louisiana visual artists! details at: www.jotform.com/262085544026...

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

was AWP only a month ago? thanks to bloom lit for this report about our packed-to-capacity panel addressing debuts after 50! substack.com/@chinsunlee/...

photo of audience members raising their hands at a panel about debut authors over 50

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

i’m proud to be part of this scholarship committee helping louisiana undergrads—esp underprivileged, BIPOC, & LGBTQIA+ students—pursuing the arts. applications for the 2026-2027 academic year open april 1st. visit tinyurl.com/armaturescholarship to learn more, and please spread the word!

college scholarship flyer with 3 photos showing students in class, outside on campus steps, and standing next to a teacher.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

IN ONE WEEK! i love teaching this 2-hour generative class: we’ll review excerpts of imagistic prose, then write from a slideshow of compelling images, finally sharing for feedback. join us!👇

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

back from #awp2026, where i was gagged to see SO MANY writers at our “debuting after 50” panel w/ melanie faranello, zeeva bukai & nita noveno, moderated by the 🔥 sara lippmann. huge thanks to all who showed up!🙏

5 women of different ethnicities and over 50 years old, standing in a conference room against a beige wall

a wide-angle shot of the audience, filling a large conference meeting room

a shot of the moderator and 4 panelists sitting at a long table at the front of a conference room, with shared microphones and beverages

a shot from the view of the panelists facing the audience, several with hands raised for questions

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

i’ll be at #AWP2026 on this panel with 4 other amazing women authors who debuted after 50: we continue to write & have stories to share @ the value—and strategies!—of being persistent. see you in baltimore!

flyer for AWP 2026 depicting 5 women authors on a panel about debuting after age 50, held at baltimore convention center room 321 on thurs 3/5 at 9am

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

so thrilled my new novel, SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US, has found a home with Creature Publishing!🩸i spilled my guts all over this weird, dark tale of psychological horror that while writing led me to truly unexpected places. i hope readers will likewise feel a delicious gasp of surprise.

red envelope against a black background announcing a new book deal for SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US by chin-sun lee

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2026

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

hey writers: i’m re-upping this course through writers.com after taking a season off…it’s always been popular so get your spot b4 it fills up. and if you enroll b4 sunday the 18th, you’ll get a discounted rate!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

readers! tantor is running a 50% discount holiday promotion on audiobooks, including mine—so if you’ve been curious @ UPCOUNTRY, this northern gothic is all wintry vibes🪾🌨️

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50% OFF Upcountry

Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three g...

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Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Received my copy of the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social 2026 Anthology. Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle (“Last Song Villanelle”) & an interview in the anthology! Order here: www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page.... #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poem #writers

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

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New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.

As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 05/11/2025

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/11/2025

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Totals by Candidate
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1012850
50.32%
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Curtis A. Sliwa
144123
7.16% |
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Irene Estrada
2575
0.13% |
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Eric L. Adams
6182
0.31%|
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Joseph Hernandez
1228
0.06%
16
Andrew M. Cuomo
837398
41.61%
17
Jim Walden
2128
0.11% |
18
WRITE-IN
6163
0.31% |

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

delighted to see UPCOUNTRY in this @electricliterature.com roundup of creepy ghoulish books by laura venita green, author of SISTER CREATURES—out now w/ @unnamedpress.bsky.social! link to article in comments

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

still a few more spots (and days) left—so come and get ‘em! i still think of fall as “back to school,” so if you’ve been itching to dedicate more focus on your writing, perhaps now is the time? (link for details/to register in bio)

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

if you want to escape from all the things just for a few moments, read this new story by Elizabeth Bull—it’s so weird and lovely and funny and moving. i’d just woken up from a nap when i read it, and felt that dream-world shift into hers… atlengthmag.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

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literature that looks good on a laptop

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

WRITERS! i’m leading an 8-week intermediate-advanced fiction workshop next month—so if you have a novel, stories, or work of autofiction you’d like to propel or revise, ‘tis the season to get serious! 4 days left for early registration, see link in bio💫

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

such fun chatting with @allysonnoman.bsky.social while she pulled some timely tarot cards!✨✨✨ check out our convo & follow her stack! open.substack.com/pub/allysonn...

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PAST PRESENT FUTURE — with Chin-Sun Lee

on family, mortality, and trusting the process of not knowing

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

looking for edinburgh & glasgow recs: i'll be there end-aug thru end-sept, with a writing rez in between. art, book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, thrifting, flea markets, cemeteries, parks, pubs (peaty scotch!🥃), weird random poke-abouts—throw 'em at me please!🙏

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Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

An update: We still have no rep in Congress (same with two other Dem-held districts in GOP states) & instead of an election the Governor is holding a special legislative session to redraw the districts. The proposed map will give the GOP 5 additional seats. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...

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Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats

The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says

A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

i’ve taught this generative workshop in person & now i’m psyched to lead a virtual version this fall w/ @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! october 18th, 12-2pm ET, $65, enroll here: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/pros...

flyer announcing a craft seminar with an image of the instructor, chin-sun lee, an asian woman wearing a gray t-shirt

a brief summary of what the class will focus on

a positive student testimonial about the instructor

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

and if you’re in louisiana like me 📞

grid showing louisiana congressional GOP reps: steve scalise, clay higgins, mike johnson, julia letlow

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

if these are your reps, pls call and put pressure on them to vote against this terrible budget bill!👇 (“202) 225-3121

a grid showing all GOP congressional reps in districts at play in 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

can’t wait to read REPEAT AS NEEDED!!!

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

an illuminating day at the #deepsouthconvening conference. came away so proud to be a part of this region—don’t underestimate the talent & tenacity of southern writers! also great to reunite w @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & finally meet @emmabolden.bsky.social—plus a 🌈🌈 driving back!

group selfie with a tall white smooth-headed male wearing a turquoise polo shirt and 3 dark-haired women (2 white and 1 asian) in a restaurant entrance.

a white male wearing a baseball cap and holding a “deep south convening” notebook sitting next to an asian female holding a pink “ecotone” booklet sitting at a long conference table with paper plates and bottled drinks and various people in the background.

an audience seated at a conference in a former chapel with stained glass windows applauding speakers beth ann fennelly, ralph eubanks, and maurice carlos ruffin.

the view from the passenger seat of a car showing the steering wheel and dashboard with GPS and a double rainbow through the window.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

hey writers: i’m psyched to be a part of this online literary summer camp organized by @writingco-lab.bsky.social — just lookit the lineup! i’ll be part of a panel discussing how to maintain a lifelong writing practice on 7/23 from 8-9pm ET. link to register for this & other panels/classes in bio

flyer announcing a literary summer camp featuring multiple authors, with online panels and classes

flyer featuring an online course, MAINTAINING A LIFELONG WRITING PRACTICE (link to register in bio)

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

new orleans! next sat (4/19 at 4pm) i’ll be in conversation w/ author michele t. berger to discuss her speculative story collection, DOLL SEED—focusing on the role of writers, esp WOC, in challenging patriarchal narratives. link in bio for dtls & to register. hope to see you there!

promo flyer for literary event, FEMINIST FUTURISM vs. PROJECT 2025, at octavia books in new orleans on 4/19, featuring authors michele t. berger & chin-sun lee

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a solid & peaceful crowd today in new orleans…had to update an old sign from 2018 & couldn’t help but shake my head that here we are again, only worse. let this be the start of a turning tide 🌊🤞

woman holding a sign with a picture of trump saying “keep your tiny mitts off my rights!”

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

re-upping this course thru writers.com — now extended to 6 weeks! we’ll discuss texts by joe brainerd, tobias wolff, elizabeth hardwick, rachel cusk, laurie stone, delmore schwartz, and lucia berlin, using them toward weekly writing prompts. link to register in bio.

Announcement of “From Memory,” a writing course for fiction & non-fiction writers, led by Chin-Sun Lee: 6 weeks (virtual) from Wednesday, April 30th/$445. Link to register in bio.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

thanks @ttbrader.bsky.social for my copy of your beautiful book! it’s available to order: bellepointpress.com/products/sec...

image of book cover for “secret keepers” by teresa tumminello brader with a key and shiny purple bookmark.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

billy joel’s “piano man” makes me HOMICIDAL

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I had legit completely forgotten this.

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Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

excited to lead this craft session, PROSE FROM IMAGERY, this coming thursday 3/27 at 3pm—if you’re in nola, come see me & please spread the word! ✍️ #twfest25 #twfestnola #twfest

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