Bea Chang

Award-winning writer, fascinated by human migration and power; alien muse; travel planner & guide; feminist of sorts; a few basketball projects too.

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Just spent two weekend intensives in San Francisco’s downtown with Muses & Melanin BIPOC Writing Fellowship with a lot of awesome women!

[Joyland Publishing @JoylandPub]

Joyland Magazine is open for submissions.

https://t.co/Z4GzZme5ny

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

I love bubble tea, so I wrote an essay about it and they gave me an award 😈 https://t.co/Xj8LiBs2CY

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Thanks to @hobartpulp for getting my story out into the world!

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

PUBLISHED! PUBLISHED! A short collage essay about the time I thought I was leaving Seattle for good. It was the spring of 2017, the start of the first presidential term, and I found myself instead walking onto a Filipino boat with 22 sunburned strangers..

https://t.co/JuhEURrhx7

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Time and space to write at Storyknife residency 😈

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Working on a little somethin’ somethin’ at Monson Arts Residency in Maine.

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Writing @ Buinho Artist Residency in Messejana, Portugal #air #residency #writingresidency #artistresidency #writing #portugal

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"In general, our culture believes it’s their responsibility to stop individuals from trying to become artists. I’ve found that the ones who try the hardest to stop others are the ones who had artistic aspirations and have already stopped themselves." ~ Julianna Baggott

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

"Poetry reaches the unsaid, and leaves it unsaid." (Etel Adnan)

[Thin Air Magazine @ThinAirMagazine]

Submissions open TOMORROW for our annual The Bird In Your Hands contest! We are seeking 500 word (and under) submissions from #bipocauthors and any other #bipoc voices looking to be published. Submission is free and the winner gets $500 dollars and publication in Thin Air 30!

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Time to buckle down and create. @ Buinho Artist Residency, Portugal.

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Yet another essay close and dear to my heart about the global idealism of our early twenties, the early Obama years, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Team Stupa’s adventures in Myanmar (Burma) in 2010 @bettycoxcronin Thank you to my editor @steffantriplett and publisher @theoffingmag !

[The Offing @theoffingmag]

"He smiled, his uneven teeth stained red with betel juice. The exhilaration glimmering between us reminded me of the thrill, the delirious, intoxicated feeling..."

Read "Everything We Couldn’t Be" by @BeaChang_10

https://t.co/iK1yWNlHXx

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

My essay about crossing rivers throughout 50+ countries is republished! Thanks @NowhereMag!

[Nowhere Magazine @NowhereMag]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/GOlGeM4hux

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

There are certain things that fuel you.

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Updated link to “Homesick Island”, my award winning essay about discovering what it means to be an Asian-American in this world, and my love letter to the beautiful sunny isle of Singapore—like me, a meeting place of the East and the West https://t.co/q5Y7bwb1yR

[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Thanks to @redividermag with the Beacon Street Nonfiction Prize! Yet another essay close and dear to my heart about my experiences as an Asian American crossing borders, and how it informed my identity and my place in the United States and in this world. https://t.co/GR8szNCPgE

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[Bea Chang @BeaChang_10]

Much thanks to @BodegaMag for publishing a piece close and dear to my heart about one of the most meaningful and heartbreaking friendships in my life ❤️🙏🏽😈 #liveawesome