Tanya Žilinskas
@tanyazilinskas.com
Mostly plant content. Fiction in EPOCH, The Sun, Shenandoah, Chicago Quarterly Review, etc. Working on a novel about bad art friends and a story collection set in a surreal version of Marin County. Host of the BAIT Reading Series. tanyazilinskas.com
Let your (pit) hair down and read this new story by @lpandell.bsky.social!
Doric Literary@doricliterary.bsky.social · last mo.Now online: "In the Pits" by Lexi Pandell @lpandell.bsky.social Told in Lexi's unique voice & style, this is a story about rebellion, solidarity, community & challenging cultural norms. Oh, & it's about armpit hair. Enjoy! Laugh, reflect, join the resistance! doric-literary.com/2026/06/30/i...
Normalize writing not being healing
Lexi Pandell@lpandell.bsky.social · last mo."In therapy, my emotions can be messy. In writing, I clean up the mess and fit the pieces together to find the narrative." On the process of writing a memoir—and what the work has actually asked of me: lexipandell.substack.com/p/no-writing...
This week I talked to friend and poet T.S. Leonard about lyrical revision, re-instituted novel writing deadlines, and found new submission opportunities from @conjunctions.bsky.social, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, Loghaven, Short Story, Long, and more: tanyazilinskas.substack.com/p/finding-th...
Finding the music
On arbitrary deadlines, ugly first drafts, and revising for lyricism
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This week I talked to @ajaraden.bsky.social about "fake" diamonds and imposter syndrome and writers, plus a round up of new submission opportunities from @pshares.bsky.social, @grantamag.bsky.social , @parisreview.bsky.social, Prairie Schooner, and more: tanyazilinskas.substack.com/p/faking-it-...
Faking it until you make it
On imposter syndrome, diamonds, and the construction of desire
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Tonight! Bay Area readers and writers, come on down!
Tanya Žilinskas@tanyazilinskas.com · 3mo agoBay Area writers, readers & friends! The next BAIT reading is THIS Friday, May 8 at 6 pm at @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. Readers are Carvell Wallace, Chia-Chia Lin, Sarah Stone, and Dāshaun Washington. 😍 Free to attend and reading followed by a Q&A. Details and RSVP at baitreading.com
Bay Area writers, readers & friends! The next BAIT reading is THIS Friday, May 8 at 6 pm at @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. Readers are Carvell Wallace, Chia-Chia Lin, Sarah Stone, and Dāshaun Washington. 😍 Free to attend and reading followed by a Q&A. Details and RSVP at baitreading.com
This week I talked to my beloved Christina Wolfgram about quitting social media (IRONY) and protecting your writerly mental health. Also submission opportunities, including deadlines from @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social, @northamerreview.bsky.social, & more: tanyazilinskas.substack.com/p/sweating-a...
and you may find yourself logging on to post your little thoughts on your five social media platforms and you may ask yourself well how did I get here
For this week's Substack, I talked about writing place with Kunle Ologunro and rounded up the juiciest submission opportunities, including contests and residencies galore, and @therumpus.net's amazing new fellowship and microgrant initiatives: tanyazilinskas.substack.com/p/writing-pl...
Writing place from afar
On setting and character, environmental nostalgia, and an embarrassment of submission riches
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How many "nos" does it take to get a "yes"? The answer might surprise you! This post will get you fired up. Thank you to @isleofanalia.bsky.social, @simonestolzoff.bsky.social, @josephbienkahn.com, @tanyazilinskas.com, and Kim Henderson for sharing: lexipandell.substack.com/p/on-rejecti...
I am verrrryyyy excited for our upcoming BAIT reading @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social, featuring Carvell Wallace, Chia-Chia Lin, Sarah Stone, and Dāshaun Washington. Join us and listen to these amazing artists read their work! More info/RSVP here: www.baitreading.com
I am very now and have a Substack. This week I talked to writer, journalist, & friend extraordinaire @lpandell.bsky.social on how to research; also a round up of places to submit to now, like @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & @newenglandreview.bsky.social tanyazilinskas.substack.com/p/maybe-the-...
Lots of folks missed the contributor list for NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD we posted last June. Sharing it again here for all who are curious. Our lineup is crazy, and you aren’t ready for this.
Vibes for next week's generative writing class at the library (we're talking about characterization and I'm having them read "Pearl, Upward" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?")
Writing this unhinged and personal body horror story healed a little something in me. Very grateful to @epochliterary.com and especially @jrobertlennon.com for embracing the weirdness and editing with such kindness. Print and online copies now available at epochliterary.com.
Washington 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.
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
HUGE 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
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems - National Book Foundation
The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential work from across Patricia Smith’s career. Here, Smith’s poems, affixed with her remarkable gift of insight, present a rapturous…
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Tonight!
Tanya Žilinskas@tanyazilinskas.com · 10mo agoThe 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.
This piece does so much in so little space.
HAD@havehashad.com · 10mo agothe 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." https://www.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?
HAD@havehashad.com · 10mo agolike 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." https://www.havehashad.com/uqfoa
