Tag: John Bao

• Post-Mortem of the Author

  by John Bảo I love listening to music. I listen every chance I can get, even if I’m working and require a deeper focus. There’s a genre and mood for whatever I need. I’m also someone who loves to explore genres deeply, to read about their histories and the artists who shaped them. City pop…

  Writers In Trees

  April 29, 2026

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  creative writing, John Bao, Writers In Trees, writing

• On Publishing and Community: Keynote Address for the Forest Floor AnthologyLaunch

  By Tali Voron-Leiderman This talk was delivered during the virtual launch of the Forest Floor anthology. It has been edited for online publication. It takes a village to make a book. The Forest Floor anthology took two years of hard work, dedication, writing and rewriting, plotting, planning and designing, editing, editing again, and then proofing…

  Writers In Trees

  March 3, 2025

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  Ann Y.K. Choi, anthology, Canadian writers, Chelsea Kowalski, emerging writer, Emma Graham, Forest Floor, John Bao, Lauren Redwood, Nicholas Wolf, Paavan Agarwal, Rahma Mohamed, Santhwana, Santhwana Michael, short-stories, Tali Voron, Tali Voron-Leiderman, Tracy Pia, Vanessa Seneriches, Writers In Trees

• Authenticity in Fiction

  By John Bao These two concepts look contradictory at first glance, but lately, I’ve found that the best kinds of stories (or at least in my opinion!) always have the element of an authentic voice, no matter the genre or medium. You can write about fantastical worlds with magic systems or futures where we can…

  Writers In Trees

  July 8, 2024

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