he/him | scary books | MA Prose @uealdc | 📝 in @JoylandMagazine @CatapultStory @splitlipthemag | @adroitjournal 2026 Veasna So Scholar | Currently seeking rep
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2022 recap (w/ announcements!) thread
Found homes for my work in four incredible publications @JoylandMagazine, @BureauDispatch, @PandanWeekly, & @CatapultStory! I remain grateful to the editors who championed my work, @michellelynking, @JiksunCheung, @stephwritescnf, & @ortile.
For all the jokes about calling it Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, nothing on earth could have possibly prepared me for the absolute funniest way of styling the title in the actual film
My new short story “The Hangers” is out today, thanks to the wonderful folks at @adroitjournal 🥳 Read it here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🥳 Contributors @miostark and @esmepromise were named @adroitjournal's '26 Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction!! AND Contributor Ellie Black was named a Djanikian Scholar in Poetry!! 👏
Thrilled to share that I’ve been named a Veasna So Scholar in this year’s class! My new story, “The Hangers” is out on @adroitjournal later this month.
We’re proud to announce the ninth class of Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry and the fourth class of Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction—twelve exciting emerging poets and fiction writers we should all be watching. Congratulations to all! theadroitjournal.org/2026/04…
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Holy Cow! This Split Lip FAM! Huge congrats to @d_c_demaree @SF_Montgomery @spaghettiutopia @miostark @emilylauracosta @toddedillard @garson_scott @rennyxgong @livesinpages @heyAbbieK @kimmagowan @ClaudiaMonpere & MANY MORE!!
☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁
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ALT Sun filters through a clearing of fall foliage
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We're starting ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a thrilling story! 🤩 Contributor @miostark published "CUT!!" in the latest issue of Boyfriend Village and we are obsessed. Catch it here: buff.ly/mA84kGV
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Thrilled to share I have a new story out with @Bfvillage and @BlackWarriorRev. Written in the style of a Wikipedia article, it’s called “CUT!!” and it’s about a cursed Filipino horror movie that kills teens and outlives the Philippines. Read it here: bwr.ua.edu/cut/
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Here's the translation for non-filo moots
WATCH: Celebrity Vice Ganda could not help but curse as he called for the return of the death penalty for government officials allegedly linked to anomalous flood control projects. @inquirerdotnet
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calling protests useless is the privilege of those who aren’t being oppressed. for the silenced, the hungry, and the abused, protests are a weapon of survival. if you feel comfortable enough to dismiss them, then you’re living off the comfort built on someone else’s suffering.
From a certain future bwr.ua.edu/cut/
Some of the major influences for my new story, out on Boyfriend Village this week.
- GHOSTWATCH (1992)
- THE RING (2002)
- All the MAGANDANG GABI… BAYAN Halloween special episodes
- FAKE DOCUMENTARY Q on YouTube
If you love any of these, you may enjoy bwr.ua.edu/cut/
My new short story, out now on Boyfriend Village, is also about a controversial Filipino horror production that turns into lost media and suddenly resurfaces as a cult classic. Read here: bwr.ua.edu/cut/
In November of 1998, Jerry Lopez Sineneng directed Maalaala Mo Kaya's Halloween episode KOPITA, featuring Gardo Versoza as a young priest assigned to a faraway barrio, not knowing that the town is inhabited by aswangs.
The episode was so controversial and has been the topic of so many urban legends, including that it has been lost media or that ABSCBN was forced to surrender all copies of the episode and burn them.
27 years later, the full episode has resurfaced and has been uploaded to Jeepney TV's YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=9WY-VYlC…
What my new story is literally about: bwr.ua.edu/cut/
Thrilled to share I have a new story out with @Bfvillage and @BlackWarriorRev. Written in the style of a Wikipedia article, it’s called “CUT!!” and it’s about a cursed Filipino horror movie that kills teens and outlives the Philippines. Read it here: bwr.ua.edu/cut/
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May we never forget that the Lumad schools were bombed and gunned down using weapons from US and Israel. Literal weapons for genocide are used against our own rural folks and indigenous peoples.
The PH Gov't takes its counterterrorism strategies from Israel's bloody playbook.
