Stephanie Shi 🏴

Comin' out of my cage & I've been doin' just fine coz In Short has published a micro essay of mine! It's under a pseudonym, so if you wanna read it, my clue is Asian mom love language 😉 so many pieces in the debut issue have moved me, so check it out! Feel human & alive again 🥰

ICYDK: We're open for subs! You can submit a SEA Lit Circle-workshopped piece *or* a previously published piece. Subs will close once we hit our cap, or on April 30 (11:59 PM, GMT+8)—whichever comes first! pandanweekly.substack.com/submit The 1st zine issue will launch in July 2024. 💚

@ppirapokin @mailbykite @LongLittWoon Aaaah thank you again, Ploi, @mailbykite, and @LongLittWoon, for sharing your wisdom!! 😍

What an amazing conversation & community—thanks @stephwritescnf for setting this up with @mailbykite & @LongLittWoon ❤️❤️❤️ to be an artist is political.

5 writers & 5 things you might find in my writing, courtesy of a tag from @poetrybyallison: 1. Mummy issues 2. Unassumingly erotic language 3. Fragmented selfhood 4. Gay romance 5. Chinese and Thai words @Iaetitia @themythofwinter @MadameWritelySo @stephwritescnf @Mexicanity

My new short story "Jungle Kids," has live on @PandanWeekly, about childhood friendships around the tropical forests of Sumatra, Indonesia. Thank you so much @stephwritescnf for giving me a chance #WritingCommunity @mayawulan82 @DedyTriRiyadi1 #SEAvoices

This week’s featured work is a short story about three friends and their relationship with their home: a jungle exploited by various groups and institutions. Read Damhuri Muhammad’s “Jungle Kids” here: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p… (@damhurimuhammad)

Today, read “Blooming, Bloomed, Withered,” Gene Png’s translation of a Lee Wonha poem. According to Gene, “The poet once confessed she never felt an affinity with nature until she moved to Jeju seeking respite from an unrequited love.” (@robinbythedoor) sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week’s featured work is “Sleight,” an English translation of Saksiri Meesomsueb’s poem กล. For translator Noh Anothai, the poem questions the boundaries between truth, exaggeration, and outright deception. Read “Sleight” at sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

Thanks so much to @PandanWeekly @stephwritescnf, and @longleafreview for first publishing this flash 2 years ago! Still one of my faves 💗

This week, read Andy Lopez’s flash fiction piece “Boba Talk.” It plays into the words for “milk tea” and an insult in her mother tongue “to exacerbate the vast divide language can create, in sometimes invisible, hurtful ways.” (@andylopezwrites) sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

@swxchhxnd @101words Aaah that ending! 🙈 Congrats, Mugdhaa!! 🥰

My cheeky micro fiction is up! Cat Whisperer 101words.org/cat-whisperer/… via @101words

@eaturlettuce @rejectionlit @trampset Congratulations, Leti!! 🥰🎉

This week’s featured work is Ysabelle Cheung’s seething story, “Ex / Re / Patriate.” Set in Hong Kong, the piece examines privilege in an expat’s life, written from an expat’s point of view. (@ysabellecheung) Read it at: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week, read “The Call of Cadiz,” a historical fiction piece about war, liberty, and madness. Set in the Philippine Isles in the early 1800s, the short story is a treat to fans of history, revolution, and anti-imperialism. Check it out here: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

@eaturlettuce @lumierereview Oh gosh, thank you so much, Leti! 🥺💖

Aaah, it's here! Thank you, @lumierereview, for putting this issue together & giving my grief essay a beautiful home alongside other heartfelt works!🤍

@eaturlettuce @lumierereview @jessiicable @SeaGoatScreams Late to the party, but I still want to say that this piece FLOORED me! I was gripped from start to finish 💖

@miostark @spellbindermag Thank you, Mio! 🥰 I don't think I'll finish any of my drafts this year, so this might be it for me for 2023 HAHAHA

@stephwritescnf @spellbindermag Congrats Steph! 🎉 2023 already off to a great start.

My personal essay about reading (with a sprinkle of friendship breakup) is in Spellbinder's Winter 2023 issue!! Thank you, @spellbindermag, for giving this piece a home 💖

To kick off 2023, we'll send thoughtful & compelling works your way! Think: themes of revolution, self-interrogation, privilege, and truth. Subscribe by the 3rd to get them in your inbox! sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly

"We are essayists, our specialty is making wild things work." --@62purcenthomo (2022) 💖 A note to self!!!