Tanya Žilinskas
Mostly plant content. Fiction in Shenandoah, Chicago Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, etc. Working on a novel about bad art friends and a surreal story collection set in a surreal Marin County. tanyazilinskas.com
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasWashington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
- Excited for this one!
- New year, new BAIT at @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social! Our January 30 event features the superlatively talented readers @jonvhickey.bsky.social, @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social, @lpandell.bsky.social, and Sommer Schafer. Free to attend; more information at baitreading.com. #WritingCommunity #BayAreaWriters
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasChristmas cards designed by Salvador Dalí, 1950s-1970s
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasHUGE congrats to our former StoryBoard and PJ Seminar instructor Patricia Smith on winning the National Book Award last night for her poetry collection "The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems". buff.ly/9C9wCGu
- Tonight!
- The BAIT reading series launches November 7 at 6 pm, featuring @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social, Jaime Cortez, Susanna Kwan, Lisa Teasley, and Armen Davoudian @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. More info/RSVP here: www.baitreading.com #Authors #WritingCommunity #BookSky #reading #BayAreaWriters
- This Friday! Join us for a free reading event @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. Full details at baitreading.com.
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasSensible zombies start the day with a brain muffin
- This piece does so much in so little space.
- the worldbuilding & magic & sentences full of wonder in today's Sarah Chin story!! "They'll tell you your mission is data collection. Observation. A short-term residency. It’s not UNtrue, but the whole truth is that the base called for you specifically." havehashad.com/j3prm
- I laughed out loud when I read this story by @efghannon.bsky.social in the submission pile, because what else can you do when you encounter something this stunning?
- like a dozen different ways I want to rave abt today's Evan Hannon short. really can't rec it enough! "A popular and apocryphal piece of trivia about the lobster is that its biologically immortal. Which is sort of true. Lobsters cannot die from old age." havehashad.com/uqfoa
- Loved the thin line between humor and disaster in these two pieces by Sophie Klar:
- two amazing new prose poems today from Sophie Klahr! here's the first of the two: havehashad.com/7nv8q
- This flash by Christian Fuller had me at “bird shit.” Now live @havehashad.com!
- "It’s said to be good luck, a bird shitting on you. That their migratory defecation patterns are premonitions, thrift store tarot cards dealt at blackjack tables...But each bird bears its own brand of luck." 🐦 💩 rankings today from Christian Fuller! havehashad.com/zh19u
- I loved the loneliness underlying the scamminess of this fantastic piece by @jamieyouwere.bsky.social. Give it a read!
- I love HAD and I’m lucky enough to have them feature my work today! Many thanks to @tanyazilinskas.com for letting me advertise the rules & regulations of a questionable sweepstakes
- Yessssss @lpandell.bsky.social!
- I’m thrilled to announce that my debut memoir, HOLY MOTHER!, will be published in fall 2027 by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. If you love books about spiritual rabbit holes or cults, this is for you. Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.
- The BAIT reading series launches November 7 at 6 pm, featuring @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social, Jaime Cortez, Susanna Kwan, Lisa Teasley, and Armen Davoudian @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. More info/RSVP here: www.baitreading.com #Authors #WritingCommunity #BookSky #reading #BayAreaWriters
- And scene. Thank you to everyone who shared their work!
- Lol @havehashad.com
- Lol @havehashad.com
- Okay, everything is read. Tomorrow is official stuff.
- I think I maybe should have added an addendum not to hex me @havehashad.com @jlyocum.com
- Lol @havehashad.com
- Tonight! 4 pm PST/7 pm EST. Send me your stellar, weird, inexplicable work (just make sure it’s 500 words or less).
- Here's the link for prose submissions. guest ed: @tanyazilinskas.com Link will be live at 7pm ET. Will close as soon as it hits 77 submissions!! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/33833...
- This Tuesday! May the odds be ever in your favor:
- Upcoming submission call! Theme "LUCK" In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry" guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasObligatory quote repost so I can tag @havehashad.com and @tanyazilinskas.com This is going to be about the most fun anyone might legally have on any given Tuesday!
- On Tuesday I’ll be co-hosting a HAD submission call with Tanya Žilinskas jlyocum.com/2025/10/05/on-tuesd… On August 19th, during the literary journal HAD's fifth anniversary submission call, the edito bit.ly/3Kz2G7S
- This is what we call foreshadowing
- Please join me at Stories on Stage Davis for a performance of my story "Overview Effect" (originally published in @yourimpossiblevoice.com) on October 12. Full event info here: storiesonstagedavis.com/authors/10-1...
- I didn’t even realize there was supposed to be a rapture when I had my generative writing class read @blackquisition.bsky.social’s “Erasure” last night: kenyonreview.org/kr-online-is...
- Brilliant
- “For every book that I read, I collect words for a word bank, take notes on meaningful quotes, and write down any ideas that come to me,” writes @taylorbyas.bsky.social, author of Resting Bitch Face (Soft Skull Press @catapultbooks.bsky.social). Read on: at.pw.org/WRByas
- Bay Area friends! I am teaching a *free* generative workshop starting this month at the beautiful Mill Valley Library, Mondays from 5:30 pm until 6:30 pm. Everyone is welcome--let's write together! More information and register here: millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/151191...
- I must smell this. I also wrote a story a few years back about the weird world of perfume and perfume reviewers: porterhousereview.org/articles/sil...
- i got to smell this Eau De Space earlier today when i found out my friends ordered a bottle, and it was probably the most disturbing scent I've ever smelled; it felt like the olfactory equivalent of watching a snuff film or something. i scrubbed my face and nose with soap & water to try to escape it
- The thing about having a bob with bangs is there's always one day where you look like Lord Farquaad
- Editing obstacle
- So ready for this @isleofanalia.bsky.social! 🎉
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasToday is the official pub date for this little freak of a novella by the legendary Mario Bellatin and translated by me.
- I adored this flash by Devan Murphy in @electricliterature.com. Give yourself a break from the unconscionable weirdness of the world and bask in its brilliant weirdness: electricliterature.com/the-beginnin...
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasCousin in Iran, she lives in a suburb of Tehran: “They’re bombing us, apartment buildings & homes. Apparently where high ranking officials live but entire buildings of other people. Dogs and cats freaking out. We couldn’t get in the basement.” They’re bombing high rises full of civilians.
- Reposted by Tanya Žilinskasboth parties are the same, i hear
- At first I was excited about all the HAGS in my kids’ yearbooks because I thought the youth were into witches now, but turns out it’s just ‘have a great summer’
- Why am I only now learning about Goth dahlias?
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasI'm looking for some volunteer readers for both @fracturedlit.bsky.social & @unchartedmag.bsky.social I love for readers to have a bit of publishing success and a love for the genre/form! Let me know if you're interested! It's 2–4 hours of reading per week, but I'm flexible!
- Reposted by Tanya ŽilinskasCome have tea and poetry with me and @jjrancourt.bsky.social in Sonoma County at the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens, June 15th.
- The only thing working in this country right now is GLP-1
- Chekhov's blender
- I think I've finally found the in-road to fixing one of my older stories. The solution was completely obvious: add a swamp creature from Slavic folklore.
