Joining the Legion

Thank You BOOKSHOW, Jim Ruland, and The Legion for the warm welcome into verminousity 🔥🐭🔥

New Story in The Los Angeles Review

My short story “Pieces” is out today in The Los Angeles Review. You can read it on the LAR website at: http://losangelesreview.org/pieces-peter-h-z-hsu/ Many thanks to the LAR editorial staff, especially Meredith Alder and Amy Sather.

Vermin on the Mount: Friday the 13th

I’ll be joining the legion of vermin on Friday, April 13th at Highland Park’s BOOKSHOW. Come join me and Susan Henderson, Naomi Hirahara, Yelena Moskovich, Scott O’Connor, Mark Sarvas, and Amy Wallen. As usual, Vermin on the Mount will be hosted by the lovely Jim Ruland. Show starts at 7:30 and admission is $0.00.

Flapperhouse Year Four available now via Amazon

Now available in soft pulpy paperback via Amazon for $18US: FLAPPERHOUSE – YEAR FOUR, the print anthology of all the surreal, shadowy, sensual, and satirical lit published by Joe O’Brien and company in 2017 (including numerous pieces never posted on the Flapperhouse site)… Includes my short story “Mission Concept” along with work by: Caroll Sun Yang, […]

Mission Concept nominated for Braddock Avenue Books 2018 Best Small Fiction Anthology

FLAPPERHOUSE has nominated “Mission Concept”, from the Summer 2017 issue, for inclusion in the 2018 Best Small Fictions Anthology! The other nominees are: “Picnic” by A. E. Weisgerber (560 words), from the Spring 2017 issue. “Left Behind” by Kaj Tanaka (512 words), from the Summer 2017 issue. “Drought” by Kim Coleman Foote (390 words), from the Fall 2017 […]

Telling Our Story; A PEN in the Community Reading

PEN in the Community‘s 2017 residency at Fairfax High School cumulated with a public reading at the Greenway Theater in Mid-City Los Angeles. Students from Fairfax High School took the stage with writers from the Freda Mohr Senior Center to read their short stories and poems that they’d written over the course of the semester. […]

“From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel” available in print in F(r)iction No.9

My latest story is out now in F(r)iction issue No.9. It’s a love story. It’s also a sad story. It’s a sad love story. F(r)iction No. is the Obsession Issue and features fine literary fiction and poetry with a weird bent. Find F(r)iction in stores at Barns & Noble or order direct from the publisher, […]

F(r)iction No.9 Available Now for Pre-Order

F(r)iction Issue No.9, featuring my short story “From the Roof of The Henry Vaughn Hotel” is now available for pre-order from Tethered By Letters. No.9 is all about obsessions: Obsessions with love, death, sex, alternate realities, and the ideal Tinder date. No.9 features: JEFF VANDERMEER KIRSTY LOGAN DAVID GALEF Poetry by THOM YOUNG and STUART DYBEK […]

Final Reading for PITC Residency

PEN in the Community‘s Teaching Artist in Residency at Fairfax High School Pete’s freshmen creative writing workshop published their anthology and had their public reading on Friday December 1st at the Greenway Theater in Mid-City LA. 30 students worked with Pete and authors Chris Terry, Shawna Kenney, and Chiwan Choi to produce over 30 pieces […]

“From the Roof of the Henry Vaughn Hotel” nominated for Pushcart!

With great surprise and appreciation, I’m thrilled to announce that my short story “From the Roof of the Henry Vaughn Hotel” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Tethered By Letters and F(r)iction Magazine.