Wei Ting

Writer, Mom | I write about women, language and contemporary Asia | 🇸🇬/中/日/한/De | Letters from the Periphery 📩

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

I've started a new writing series where I publish and respond to letters from around the world about what it means to be an 'international' writer in the US.

The first letter is from a Singaporean reader who asks: how do you balance writing and family?

https://t.co/JZNhF4tpmX

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

So excited for this book!!

[Madeleine Thien @madeleinethien]

My novel, The Book of Records, will slip into the world next year. I am so very grateful. Literature tries to hold, even fleetingly, what history and time dissolve.

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@madeleinethien Maddie, I can't wait to read!!!

[Sophie Bowman @SophieOrbital]

For anyone interested in reading some of Han Kang's work, this story (a precursor to The Vegetarian) translated by Deborah Smith is a great (free!) introduction: https://t.co/DEtVrLMpSv

[Madeleine Thien @madeleinethien]

"With the war intensifying and people being carried out dead every day, how can we have a celebration? Please don't celebrate while witnessing these tragic events. The Swedish Academy didn’t give me this award for us to enjoy, but to stay more clear-headed."

[Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi]

My aunt, Lee Wei Ling, passed away on Oct 9. When I was a child, she recruited my brother and me as lab subjects for a brain imaging study. Ever the scientist.

Her funeral is today, in Singapore. It pains me that I cannot be there to say goodbye.

[The Korea Times @koreatimescokr]

Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars https://t.co/00XuFVIczv

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@likaluca so precious!!

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

Couldn't be more excited for @AntonHur and what this means!!

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

Honored to be on the judging panel for the #InternationalBooker2025 ✨

Trans rights are human rights and human rights are trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

And free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

Popped in here to check out what's going on and WHOA LIT WORLD MUNRO WUT

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@likaluca soak the rice and it'll taste even better!

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

Popped back on this site and saw this. Wow! Congrats @YuanfenYang!!

[Yuan Yang @YuanfenYang]

Last canvass of this general election, with Bala in Whitley Wood (left) and our Whitley councillors (right) 🌹

[Hari Kondabolu @harikondabolu]

When you find out who doesn’t have Asian friends.

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@hbrenhouse SO GLAD to hear this!!!

[Hillary Brenhouse @hbrenhouse]

It still doesn't seem real, but somehow, some way, UC Berkeley and Harvard are going to support my weird little magazine. Which means that after twenty solid years of dreaming about it, I'm making a print mag of writing and art. https://t.co/I2vG7IHYxR

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@TimothyS Tim, this is such shocking news. Please take care.

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@StephRamlogan big hugs, friend

[Wei Ting @weitingjen]

@likaluca sounds a bit like....New York? 🤣

[Gigi Chang 张菁 @gigicchang]

Day 2 of #JinYongCentenary. We started the day with a visit to Jin Yong’s cousin Xu Zhimo’s house. He’s best known as a poet - we’ve all learned his ode to River Cam at school and can still recite it 轻轻的我走了 - but he’d also welcomed Tagore to China and met Hardy in the UK!