Wen-yi Lee & Trang Thanh Tran
Age Category: Young Adult, New Adult, Adult
Genre: Horror, Magical Realism, Paranormal, Speculative Fiction, Thriller
MSWL: We're looking for horror, thriller and speculative real-world fiction broadly across YA and adult (no high fantasy please). We would love to see queer and sapphic books, especially from BIPOC and Southeast Asian writers or other diverse perspectives. We LOVE weird stuff, so try us with anything strange, and/or things that straddle genre and literary. We're also all for cannibalism, botanical horror, slightly toxic romance, gorgeous prose, angry girls, and found family. If it can be described as 'somewhat concerning', we'd probably be into it.
We love stuff in the vein of Our Wives Under the Sea, Annihilation, Andrew Joseph White, The Hacienda, Mexican Gothic, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me, The Astonishing Color of After, If These Wings Could Fly, Their Vicious Games, Chlorine, and The Only Good Indians, for a short list.
Wen-yi Lee is a Clarion West Workshop alum from Singapore whose short fiction has appeared in venues like Lightspeed, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons, as well as in various anthologies. She likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts. The Dark We Know is her debut novel. Find her on socials @wenyilee_ and otherwise at wenyileewrites.com.
Trang Thanh Tran writes speculative stories with big emotions. When not writing, they can be found over-caffeinating on iced coffee and watching zombie movies. Their debut novel She Is a Haunting was an instant New York Times and Indie bestseller and named a 2024 William C. Morris debut award finalist.