Esmé Weijun Wang
@esmewang.com
📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
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🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
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🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
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Esmé Weijun Wang
@esmewang.com
· May 6
for people who are interested in writing personal nonfiction/memoir and would like to start small: I made a free 28-paged workbook called Memoir in Miniature for you! grab it here:
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www.esmewang.com/memoir-in-mi...
I am almost never on here, but some of you were my pals elsewhere on the internet before Bluesky, and perhaps you remember our little dog Daphne.
I am sad to share that Daphne died last night. Already I have cried and cried and I know that I will cry more. She was a very good girl.
I am sad to share that Daphne died last night. Already I have cried and cried and I know that I will cry more. She was a very good girl.
September 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM
I am almost never on here, but some of you were my pals elsewhere on the internet before Bluesky, and perhaps you remember our little dog Daphne.
I am sad to share that Daphne died last night. Already I have cried and cried and I know that I will cry more. She was a very good girl.
I am sad to share that Daphne died last night. Already I have cried and cried and I know that I will cry more. She was a very good girl.
I was appalled by how bad I thought the 1991 Cape Fear was—Juliette Lewis was terrific, but otherwise… gah. Wooden performance by Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro chewing the scenery so hard he was probably pulling splinters out of his teeth for years afterward, and Nick Nolte being… there.
August 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I was appalled by how bad I thought the 1991 Cape Fear was—Juliette Lewis was terrific, but otherwise… gah. Wooden performance by Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro chewing the scenery so hard he was probably pulling splinters out of his teeth for years afterward, and Nick Nolte being… there.
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Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, one former member who sat on the board for nearly 25 years said the group “just decided on our feelings.”
This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse
More than a decade after the Amateur Athletic Union promised to implement “historic child protection measures,” it still hasn’t done so, leaving hundreds of thousands of kids at risk. Some AAU athlete...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Asked about written guidelines for when to ban coaches, one former member who sat on the board for nearly 25 years said the group “just decided on our feelings.”
Does anyone know someone who might be able to help me—my Lyft account has been frozen for months now, I spoke to Support and they allegedly bumped it up, and then they said it had to go even higher up the chain, & now it’s been weeks & weeks. No one can tell me why my account was frozen.
August 13, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Does anyone know someone who might be able to help me—my Lyft account has been frozen for months now, I spoke to Support and they allegedly bumped it up, and then they said it had to go even higher up the chain, & now it’s been weeks & weeks. No one can tell me why my account was frozen.
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July 22nd's disabled writer is Esmé Weijun Wang!
Also known as @esmewang.com
Deets at esmewang.com
Author of The Collected Schizophrenias ( www.booksaremagic.net/item/SPJp5aJ...) & many amazing fiction/nonfiction works.
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Also known as @esmewang.com
Deets at esmewang.com
Author of The Collected Schizophrenias ( www.booksaremagic.net/item/SPJp5aJ...) & many amazing fiction/nonfiction works.
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#DisabilityPrideMonth
Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction
Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.
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July 22, 2026 at 11:24 PM
July 22nd's disabled writer is Esmé Weijun Wang!
Also known as @esmewang.com
Deets at esmewang.com
Author of The Collected Schizophrenias ( www.booksaremagic.net/item/SPJp5aJ...) & many amazing fiction/nonfiction works.
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#DisabilityPrideMonth
Also known as @esmewang.com
Deets at esmewang.com
Author of The Collected Schizophrenias ( www.booksaremagic.net/item/SPJp5aJ...) & many amazing fiction/nonfiction works.
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#DisabilityPrideMonth
Interested in writing memoir or personal essays? Interested in my teaching? I’m closing The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy and am now selling the entire curriculum and 12 brilliant guest lectures for the $ of a little more than one class. Sale closes June 15: www.esmewang.com/last-chance
May 14, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Interested in writing memoir or personal essays? Interested in my teaching? I’m closing The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy and am now selling the entire curriculum and 12 brilliant guest lectures for the $ of a little more than one class. Sale closes June 15: www.esmewang.com/last-chance
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Mother Tongue also has an extremely cool cover in the UK (which I feel ok bragging about since I have no hand in it at all 😆), featuring kind words from the great @esmewang.com.
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue
February 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Mother Tongue also has an extremely cool cover in the UK (which I feel ok bragging about since I have no hand in it at all 😆), featuring kind words from the great @esmewang.com.
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue
It's out 11 June there and is available for preorder now. geni.us/MotherTongue
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“I think I’ve developed a pretty healthy awareness of how small I am.”
—Andrew Garfield, interviewed by @esmewang.com
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Andrew Garfield, interviewed by @esmewang.com
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Andrew Garfield - Believer Magazine
I first became interested in Andrew Garfield and his work not from his starring role in the two big-budget Amazing Spider-Man films (2012, 2014), nor from his famous laptop-smashing scene in David Fin...
www.thebeliever.net
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“I think I’ve developed a pretty healthy awareness of how small I am.”
—Andrew Garfield, interviewed by @esmewang.com
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Andrew Garfield, interviewed by @esmewang.com
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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"...living with limitations means developing a different relationship with completion. Where others might see abandoned projects as evidence of failure, I see them as proof of making an effort despite all evidence to the contrary." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-museum... 👏 @esmewang.com is brilliant
The Museum of Almost
on the beauty of unfinished things
www.reasonsforliving.co
July 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"...living with limitations means developing a different relationship with completion. Where others might see abandoned projects as evidence of failure, I see them as proof of making an effort despite all evidence to the contrary." www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-museum... 👏 @esmewang.com is brilliant
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"[Writer's block is] the internal critic gone haywire, the imposter syndrome that whispers you're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to tell this story."
www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t...
(@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)
www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t...
(@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)
When the Thread Breaks
Navigating the Difference Between Writer's Block and Brain Fog
www.reasonsforliving.co
June 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"[Writer's block is] the internal critic gone haywire, the imposter syndrome that whispers you're not good enough, smart enough, or talented enough to tell this story."
www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t...
(@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)
www.reasonsforliving.co/p/when-the-t...
(@esmewang.com with some brilliant wisdom on writing, as ever)
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I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction
Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.
esmewang.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
A really interesting (& brutal) piece about the commodification of Black identity in the art market in 2020-2022, & the opportunists who inflated art prices, only to devalue the same Black artists later
Rachel Corbett reports on how the Black portraiture boom went bust. The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.
How the Black Portraiture Boom Went Bust
Rachel Corbett reports on how the Black portraiture boom went bust. The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying.
www.vulture.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A really interesting (& brutal) piece about the commodification of Black identity in the art market in 2020-2022, & the opportunists who inflated art prices, only to devalue the same Black artists later
I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction
Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.
esmewang.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
A dorky question (and tailored-made, I think, for @bcdreyer.social): I often want to put a comma after an independent clause even if the clause that comes after it is a dependent one—because I hear it in my head as having a pause. What’s the rule there? What’s best practice w/literary fiction?
May 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A dorky question (and tailored-made, I think, for @bcdreyer.social): I often want to put a comma after an independent clause even if the clause that comes after it is a dependent one—because I hear it in my head as having a pause. What’s the rule there? What’s best practice w/literary fiction?
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SO much good stuff out now and coming up, give our SLR NOW playlist on BNDCMPR a spin and bookmark it for frequent updates!
https://bndcmpr.co/012f6f44
https://bndcmpr.co/012f6f44
May 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
SO much good stuff out now and coming up, give our SLR NOW playlist on BNDCMPR a spin and bookmark it for frequent updates!
https://bndcmpr.co/012f6f44
https://bndcmpr.co/012f6f44
Pupdate for people who’ve missed Daphne on their screens.
May 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Pupdate for people who’ve missed Daphne on their screens.
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all right everybody, here we go
links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday
please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday
please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch
Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.
www.orartswatch.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
all right everybody, here we go
links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday
please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday
please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
I keep thinking I’m getting close to being done with the newest novel, & then I am delayed by things like cancer and depression and whatnot but IT WILL COME EVENTUALLY, I PROMISE
May 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I keep thinking I’m getting close to being done with the newest novel, & then I am delayed by things like cancer and depression and whatnot but IT WILL COME EVENTUALLY, I PROMISE
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A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
'It was horror,' says wife of quadriplegic man who sought assisted death after ER bedsore | CBC News
A public inquiry into the death of a quadriplegic man is underway in Quebec — over a year after he sought medical assistance in dying following a hospital stay that left him with a severe and painful ...
www.cbc.ca
May 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him 🧵
this made me laugh in the most delighted way…
anyway you want some really unhinged literature about a fucked up asian family... ever since i read THE BORDER OF PARADISE by esmé weijun wang in 2015 i haven't been able to stop thinking about it. on and off it haunts me. i'm like damn she went there
May 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
this made me laugh in the most delighted way…
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ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma
youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
Schizophrenia: Breaking the mental health stigma | BBC Ideas
YouTube video by BBC Ideas
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma
youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
I don’t promote all of my Reasons for Living posts here—but most of the posts are free, and if you can’t afford a paid subscription, just DM me and I’ll comp you one, no questions asked ❤️
A very nice article by Esme Weijun Wang, the author of The Collective Schizophrenias.
The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...
The Courage to Question Your Doctor www.reasonsforliving.co/p/the-courag...
The Courage to Question Your Doctor
(when they're questioning your sanity)
www.reasonsforliving.co
May 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I don’t promote all of my Reasons for Living posts here—but most of the posts are free, and if you can’t afford a paid subscription, just DM me and I’ll comp you one, no questions asked ❤️