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Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a queer and neurodivergent 1.5-generation Chinese-Canadian immigrant writer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist. Her fiction/poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, F&SF, Heartlines Spec, The Massachusetts Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, QWERTY, and The Fiddlehead, among others. The author of Someday I Promise, I'll Love You (845 Press) and a Banff Centre alumnus in poetry, she is the writer and director of three short films—including an award-winning video poem—that have premiered internationally in festivals. She was Longlisted for the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize, Shortlisted for the Vancouver City Poems Contest, a Finalist for The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest, a 2024 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition Semifinalist, and the winner in the short story category of the CWC Sustaining Shared Futures Writing Award. She was nominated by Heartlines Spec for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two, and was most recently an editor for Augur. She has recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia, and will be looking for a home for her debut experimental novel. She can be found sprinting from spiders and drinking bubble tea @vivianlicreates on Instagram, Bluesky, and Mastodon.


Current Issue
3 Feb 2025

By: Mu Cao
Translated by: Hongwei Bao
too many things left unsaid/ words fold into themselves 
在沒有時間的Hotel California,Isa成為我的時間。
By: Hsin-Hui Lin
Translated by: Ye Odelia Lu
In the timeless space that is Hotel California, Isa becomes my time.
不思議な道でした。どこまで行っても闇夜。
By: Mayumi Inaba
Translated by: Yui Kajita
It was a strange road. Endless dark night no matter how far I walked.
Issue 27 Jan 2025
By: River
Issue 20 Jan 2025
Strange Horizons
By: Michelle Kulwicki
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Issue 13 Jan 2025
Issue 6 Jan 2025
By: Samantha Murray
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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Issue 2 Dec 2024
By: E.M. Linden
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Issue 25 Nov 2024
Issue 18 Nov 2024
By: Susannah Rand
Podcast read by: Claire McNerney
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