Jami Nakamura Lin

👹THE YŌKAI ARE HERE! 👹 SO excited to finally reveal the cover of my debut book THE NIGHT PARADE: A SPECULATIVE MEMOIR (@marinerbooks, 10/24/23). art by my sister Cori, who illustrates the full-color interior!! now available for preorder: bit.ly/theNP! more below 🧵

@steffantriplett @pjmaciak @aishasabslo What lucky students!! Thank you for including my work in your curriculum-- this looks amazing

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I keep forgetting this place exists but hello!! I am teaching a class this fall at the amazing @thewritingcolab on my fav subjects--fabulist nonfiction & speculative nonfiction! Would love for you to join us, & let me know if you have questions! link below

@writesloud i need this reminder post-it noted inside my glasses

Happy pub day to @anandalima! “Craft” legitimately blew me away when I first read it. We’re celebrating at the @ChicagoRevBooks with a conversation between Ananda and another incredible writer @jaminlin! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/06/18/int…

@DeeshaPhilyaw @dawniewalton @markarms @rlnave @reckonnews so excited for this!

BEYOND excited to share what Kiese and I have been up to, along with our brilliant partners and producers, @dawniewalton, @markarms, @rlnave, and @reckonnews! Kiese and I have been scheming and dreaming abt this since 2019. Can’t wait for y’all to tune in!

Mohammad and his children have had this campaign up for around three months, with only 21 donations, and the most recent one being 2 days ago. This would be a great opportunity to adopt a life-saving campaign and bring some love and momentum to it. 🌹 gofundme.com/f/help-bring-m…

Huge news: The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first federally recognized tribe to get a portion of their land back in Illinois. Illinois now has tribal lands.

there is only one keffiyeh factory left in Palestine. in @AtmosMag's ethical fashion column, I wrote about why, about traditional keffiyeh-making techniques, and about how Palestine's past, present and future is inextricably tied to the environment. atmos.earth/inside-palesti…

New: 28 unions—representing tens of thousands of workers—are demanding "the immediate reinstatement of all student and student workers disciplined for pro-Palestine protests and the end to the repression of protest on Columbia’s campus." "An injury to one is an injury to all."

@MrsWhitehouse74 @TommyOrange4 thanks, tara!! an honor to be next to these two books.

So... As Israel systematically assassinates Palestinian poets, journalists, writers, & intellectuals, y'all are silent... As reckless editorial practice over a settler essay causes a principled resignation of nearly the entire Guernica staff... Y'all suddenly have words?!?!

In Gaza, to date, more than 30,000 people have been killed and more than 72,000 injured by Israeli forces, with many more missing or being killed as you read this. Each and every one of the dead carried stories within them: stories of a people, a culture and a land.

.@samvanzweden on how @jaminlin's 'The Night Parade' offers novel approaches to the mental health memoir. Read more → buff.ly/3v9uicd

In 'The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir' by @jaminlin, Lin, after her father's death, grapples with her bipolar disorder and interrogates the notion of recovery through Japanese, Taiwanese, and Okinawan legend. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/3IksEaB

ADI IS OPEN FOR FICTION SUBMISSIONS! This is a paid opportunity! The theme is DISOBEDIENCE: We’re looking for short fiction about the past, present, and future of disobedience to orthodoxies of all kinds. Read the full prompt and submit here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit