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Poetry Asylum Organizing feminist poetryship steered by poets Su Hwang and Sun Yung Shin. Based in Minneapolis, but

✨THE MULTITUDES✨ a new creative writing teaching collective brought to you by literary polymaths Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英...
10/13/2026

✨THE MULTITUDES✨ a new creative writing teaching collective brought to you by literary polymaths Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 and Michael Kleber-Diggs—has their next virtual PUBLISHING BOOTCAMP workshop on Saturday, Oct 24th from 10am-1pm CT via Zoom!

For $75, you’ll get *three hours* of practical tools, resources, ideas, community-building, and encouragement to support your publishing goals in an intimate setting with two of the most brilliant and prolific contemporary writers and thinkers. Jumpstart your publishing goals with this supportive and enriching workshop, register today!

Click the QR code or visit: bit.ly/4hFu4hg

Then later that day, on Saturday, Oct 24th at 7pm CT, join MKD (co-host) and the MN Prison Writing Workshop community for their 15th annual student reading ✨BEYOND BARS: Voices of Incarceration✨ in-person at Hamline University or live-streamed via Zoom. More details at mnprisonwriting.org

⚡️A very special sneak peek⚡️An excerpt from Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英’s highly-anticipated memoir ✨HEART EATER: A Memoir ...
09/15/2026

⚡️A very special sneak peek⚡️

An excerpt from Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英’s highly-anticipated memoir ✨HEART EATER: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language✨ from Black Lawrence Press featured today in Literary Hub ❤️‍🔥

And Twin Cites, don’t miss tonight’s book launch event at Moon Palace Books on Tuesday, Sept 15th at 7PM also featuring Kristin Collier Jennifer Bowen Michael Kleber-Diggs Rachel Moritz & Michael Torres 📚🚀❣️

For more information, please visit sunyungshin.com

Hello world! Please join us in welcoming ✨HEART EATER: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in ...
09/14/2026

Hello world! Please join us in welcoming ✨HEART EATER: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language✨ by the inimitable Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 辛善英 published with the amazing folks at Black Lawrence Press *tomorrow* Tuesday, Sept 15th at 7PM CT at Moon Palace Books featuring remarkable writers-humans Kristin Collier Jennifer Bowen Michael Kleber-Diggs Rachel Moritz and Michael Torres for an unforgettable evening!

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HEART EATER traces the author’s childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned 9-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author we all know and admire.

The book is made of short essays, or “field notes” (and a stunning array of archival materials) that explore encounters with language regarding race, ethnicity, migration, kinship, citizenship, gender, class, that eventually became the foundation of the writer she has become—and asking “What does it mean to be American?”

This memoir is unlike any memoir you’ve read before—braiding the personal with the ancestral, socio-political, and poetic imaginings juxtaposed against Korean folklore and history, HEART EATER is wholly original, beautiful, and fierce. Also, one of the most stunning book covers (of fox fur) designed by Zoe Norvell.

Get your copy today either from Moon Palace books or bookshop.org!

All the congratulations, Sun Yung! The world needs this book, thank you for writing it! 🙏🏽📚🚀❣️❤️‍🔥

Yesterday’s ✨ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Respond to ICE✨ afternoon event at in Baltimore co-sponsored by at was a f...
03/07/2026

Yesterday’s ✨ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Respond to ICE✨ afternoon event at in Baltimore co-sponsored by at was a full house! Nearly 150 beautiful souls gathered to support Minnesota writers and the work of .minn and during the siege and ongoing occupation.

Thank you to organizers and featuring powerful readings by .e.wynter and Lithub editor-in-chief and now honorary Minnesotan 🙌🏽❤️❣️✨

The reading was inspired by Lithub’s ✨LETTER FROM MINNESOTA✨ series which can be found at 👉🏽 www.lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota/ or link in our bio.

Thanks to everyone who attended and for bringing a bit of Minnesota to Baltimore, and for helping the organizers raise donations for our beloved communities in Minnesota.

To support more mutual aid and rental assistance needs, please visit 👉🏽 www.standwithminnesota.com

📸: ❤️

NO MORE WAR!!!!!
02/28/2026

NO MORE WAR!!!!!

🌟 All good things must come to an end—deepest gratitude to and for publishing 44 ✨LETTERS (and poems) FROM MINNESOTA✨ ...
02/21/2026

🌟 All good things must come to an end—deepest gratitude to and for publishing 44 ✨LETTERS (and poems) FROM MINNESOTA✨ since January 26, 2026, to spotlight and archive the complex hi/stories, the emotions, the solidarity, the rage, the hope, the violence, the beauty, and resilience of Minnesotans by featuring a mosaic of stunning writers.

This last batch features an amazing group, including:


Sahra Noor
Gabriela Spears-Ricowaz.pali

Ahmed Ismail Yusuf




Marian Hassan

You can read all 44 moving, necessary essays and poems at lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota (or link in our bio).

🧊 is still very much in Minnesota, please stay vigilant and safe. We are in this together.

02/13/2026

🧊🚫 Join us on Feb 26 for Minnesota Writers Respond, an evening of reading and fellowship in response to the current moment. The evening features readings by Curtis Sittenfeld, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Chaun Webster, Claire Wahmanholm, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Lara Mimosa Montes, Halee Kirkwood, and Jessica Nordell, event organizer and author of The End of Bias: A Beginning.

🩵 Presented in partnership with the Loft and Milkweed Editions. All proceeds from this event benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. The suggested admission is $25, but you can also select the pay what you can option. This is intended to remove barriers for anyone who would like to attend, but it also provides the option to donate more than $25 (simply enter an amount more than $25 in the field). Book signing and gathering to follow!

ℹ️ The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. ILCM also advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants. As part of MN’s legal-aid ecosystem, they are experiencing a historic demand for services as a result of Operation Metro Surge, taking on cases that will demand months, and even years, of legal advocacy to resolve.

🔗🎟️ RSVP: https://loft.org/events/minnesota-writers-respond-public-literary-event

💌 Give directly: https://ilcm.org/donate

🗓️ Thursday, Feb 26
⏰ 6:30pm (Doors at 6 p.m.)
🏫 The Loft at Open Book in Minneapolis

💥 Yesterday, the “border czar” announced that DHS would be leaving Minnesota and Metro Surge was a huge success. Today, ...
02/13/2026

💥 Yesterday, the “border czar” announced that DHS would be leaving Minnesota and Metro Surge was a huge success. Today, 🧊 raids continue to ramp up in and around the Twin Cities and greater MN. Reports on the ground sharply contradict what government officials are telling the press. Legacy media has moved on.

This is precisely why it’s such an imperative to have these ✨LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA✨ published with such care and integrity. Deep gratitude to everyone at Literary Hub for continuing to offer a safe place for these vital, personal, historical, intersectional accounts by MN-based writers.

Shoutout to the latest batch of amazing poets, essayists, children’s literature authors, novelists, and journalists for sharing their powerful perspectives and testimonials:








Dana Chiueh


Please read these profoundly important essays and other letters published the last couple of weeks at Lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota (link in our bio) ✊🏽❤️

‼️MINNESOTA IS STILL UNDER VIOLENT OCCUPATION‼️“It’s not history yet.”Mainstream media has moved on, the news cycle tied...
02/09/2026

‼️MINNESOTA IS STILL UNDER VIOLENT OCCUPATION‼️

“It’s not history yet.”

Mainstream media has moved on, the news cycle tied up into a neat bow after Greg Bovino was replaced by Tom Homan. The former loved the cameras, the histrionics of fascism in action, but the latter is more insidious, more calculating because he prefers to pull the authoritarian strings from behind the curtain. Talk of de-escalation was a bait and switch move so the American public could move on, look away, feel relief.

Even if 700 agents of chaos were removed, 2,000+ ultra violent, racist, sociopathic lunatics are still roaming the streets and neighborhoods—stalking schools, places of worship, parks, immigrant-owned businesses while MN state police and MPD make violent, unconstitutional arrests of peaceful protesters at Whipple and the University of MN.

Immeasurable thanks to everyone at and for continuing to platform MN writers who are telling us how it is, from their heart and soul, as they are made to witness atrocity after atrocity—so we have some kind of record, at least for posterity’s sake. This is also not new—just another page out the white supremacist playbook on occupation, oppression, and genocide. But we need to write, record, share.

Please keep your eyes open and amplify these letters from Minnesota—

https://lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota/

Thanks to remarkable writers in this most recent set of letters:


Diane Wilson






Sarah Green
Kaia Preus


…and many more to come! ❤️

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