Tanya Žilinskas
@TanyaZilinskas
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Fiction @ChicagoQReview , @ShenandoahWLU , @puertomag , etc. @usfmfa '22. Reads @ElectricLit , social/web @AQReview . Rep'd by @heatherannecarr .
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I have a new flash up today
@TriQuarterlyMag
. It's called "All Kinds of Fur" and is loosely inspired by the Brothers Grimms fairy tale "Allerleirauh." I'd be honored if you read it:
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I assure you there’s no benefit to telling someone they look tired
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If you're looking for some essays to read over the winter, here's what I taught in my Intro to Writing Nonfiction class. The kids liked it! We divided weeks by theme because this is how my brain works.
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Sometimes the most effective writing prompt is going on a walk
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Literary magazine peeps, I love the young writer contests but can we also come together on an emerging + old AF category?
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@Chelsea_Stickle
YES. And I know there's an algorithm behind it, but some of the things are too specific.
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@ShandersWrites
Every time. Also, ten minutes after a huge meal, “What are we going to have for lunch?”
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After refreshing Submittable and creeping on Twitter all week, I just received the most wonderful news that I'll be joining the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop. I can't wait to get weird with Kimberly King Parsons.
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Eek, a hit tweet. For those asking, I've put the full list here (note missing weeks are when we had break, workshop, etc.). I'll be updating my personal website in January with reading lists and will add it there with links (when possible). For now:
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“Ooh, a submission!” the post office employee said when he saw where my big envelope was going. “Is it poetry or a short story?” Guess I found my hype guy.
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Maybe make sure everyone's submissions are out of Received status before you announce contest results. Maybe.
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The ink on the DocuSign is dry, and I'm thrilled to say I'm now represented by
@heatherannecarr
at The Friedrich Agency. I'm looking forward to getting our bad art friend novel out into the world.
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@clhubes
My favorite is the observation that we don't say fortnight. Imagine saying fortnight in American conversation and not be talking about a video game.
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@blgtylr
Imagine thinking you should "stride" into anyone's kitchen while they're preparing a holiday meal
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Forget about Submittable, look what happened overnight
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I just found out my story "Bad Seeds" was selected for
@Wigleaf
's 2022 Top 50. I am so grateful for the recognition and to
@xraylitmag
for publishing this story.
The
@Wigleaf
Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022 & the Longlist are here! Congratulations! Please join us in celebrating writers, editors, journals, & very short fictions—many thanks to our Selecting Editor
@kathyfish
, the Top 50 Masthead, &
@garson_scott
: ! ❤️
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Tell it Slant week:
@melissafebos
"A Big Shitty Party,"
@DKMcCutchen
's "The Art of Lying—Or Risking the Wrath of Oprah" and
@TriciaLockwood
's "Insane After
Coronavirus?”
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@jonathanbfine
Dying over the Onion-like photo caption of “[name] did not enjoy her semester abroad.”
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Please
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@Brttnyblm
😭I am so heartbroken for her mother; the amount of pain and love tied into that act.
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@theferocity
This was very much my family’s experience in Sweden when they were living there as displaced persons. My grandmother asked a woman if she could buy some fruit that had fallen off her tree. The woman said no and threatened to call the police.
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I’m going to have to take a bird by bird approach to the fuckery of this week
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@Alex_Lily
Those terrier vermin killing genes are strong. We had a terrier mix who was sweet and gentle—bullied by cats, beloved by children— but he saw a rat outside and he had it in his mouth and was breaking its neck in about all of five seconds.
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Such a wonderful surprise to logon to a Pushcart nomination. I’m so grateful to
@SouthernHReview
for the recognition, and for the care they showed my story throughout the publication process.
Help us congratulate these brilliant writers as we nominate their work for the Pushcart Prize anthology!
Julia Thacker,
@jaiofearth
,
@MonicaLJudge
, Evan Joseph Massey,
@TanyaZilinskas
, and
@sanjenasathian
!
#writing
#literary
#litmag
#fiction
#nonfiction
#poetry
#pushcart
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Wish me luck, I'm about to attempt to draw boundaries with the narcissist in my life
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Needed to kill time during my daughter’s ballet class and ended up in a magical forest
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Look at my Bad Seeds, out in the world today
"When I received the seeds, I planted them. I planted them because I wanted to see what would happen."
@TanyaZilinskas
blooms before our eyes
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Alice Munro forever. "My Mother's Dream" is emblazoned on my brain as one of my favorite subtly wild POV stories. (DM me and I'll send you a PDF.)
Oh man, RIP to one of the best short story writers to ever do it. I love that she was always, unapologetically, a short story writer first and foremost.
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Just found out that I got into
@Tin_House
's summer workshop and my feelings are very big, and very happy, and very complicated.
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@ambernoelle
His wife tweeted something recently about every day being impressed with her own self-control, which feels relevant
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In the case of lay versus lie, sometimes you just pick a different word
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A happy surprise to get my contributor copies from
@ChicagoQReview
today. The issue can be purchased here:
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@vanjchan
I had a great experience at
@writingxwriters
last year in a fiction workshop with Tommy Orange. They have different workshops but the Tomales Bay one is in October.
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I have a new flash out today in
@LunchTicket1
. It has everything: vintage horse jokes, haunted fax machines, low self-esteem:
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The new issue of
@puertomag
is online. I’m thrilled my story “Happy Hour” found such a gorgeous home.
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Anyway here is some masculine writing I published in Meetinghouse earlier this year
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A little news: I am grateful to be moving into the EIC position
@invisiblecitySF
. I would be honored to see "your exciting words, your examined obsessions, your moments of haunting."
@submittable
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Looking forward to seeing my tree-obsessed short story in the newest issue of CQR!
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Delighted to have my story "Sillage"
@PorterHouseLit
review today. It's about obsession, desire, perfume reviews, and opens with an unsolicited dick pic. If that won't get you to read it, I don't know what will.
✨This Week on Porter House Review✨
Fiction: "Sillage" by Tanya Žilinskas (
@TanyaZilinskas
)
Poetry: "Totem" by Kryston Lopez (
@kalamityKryston
)
Nonfiction: "Is the Narrator Nothing or Everything?" by Véronique Darwin (
@veroniquedarwin
)
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My domestic horror story "On the Other Side is Everything" exists today
@TheFLReview
. Huge thanks to
@Jake_Wolff
for publishing this piece and treating it with such kindness and respect.
Start your day with brand new fiction from
@TanyaZilinskas
!
“On the Other Side Is Everything,” in which a home renovation gone wrong begins to feel haunted in more ways than one 👻🛖👻
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There’s something so comforting about watching the Roomba bump itself repeatedly into a corner, like, the robots aren’t coming for us yet
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I'm deeply appreciative of where I published in 2022. The editors I worked with treated my writing with generosity and care, and I think you should submit to them, too.
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Received my copy of
@SouthernHReview
V. 55.2 yesterday. I’m so grateful to have a story in this issue and for the gorgeous art and editorial care.
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I am at the Taylor Swift concert movie and it’s the wildest cultural experience I’ve had all year. TS could successfully stage a coup.
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@melissafebos
@DKMcCutchen
@TriciaLockwood
Aside: A student said, "Did you know there's a movie called Bodies Bodies Bodies?" 💀
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Am I ready to leave this exuberance of nature and return to human stuff? Not really.
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So thrilled to have "The Winter Guests" go live in the newest issue of
@ShenandoahWLU
. You can read it (and the rest of the issue) here:
📢 Issue 72.2 is LIVE! 📢
Read novel excerpts, short stories, flash CNF, poetry selected by Siew David Hii, the Graybeal-Gowen winner & runner-up, Russian comics, translations of work by Trans poets from Puerto Rico, & three new articles on The Peak 🎉
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@aureleos
Me, obviously. My dad once wrote a scathing review of a Best Western toilet on TripAdvisor.
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You know book research is getting serious when you hit the microfiche
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POV week: excerpts from Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
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The fish bottle has been successfully transformed into a fish vase.
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Ahhh my episode of
@ShortStoryToday
is out! Hearing Jon read my filthy story “Sillage” in his beautiful voice has been the delight of my 2023.
OUT NOW! CA author
@TanyaZilinskas
has made her home of Marin County the backdrop for many of her stories. She is acutely aware that the perception of safety & security in a suburban haven is just an illusion. And the dangers may be hiding in plain sight.
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Friends: what are some of your favorite flash (or close to flash length) CNF pieces? Feel free to shamelessly self promote.
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One thing my students will soon learn about me is that I have more black turtlenecks than Elizabeth Holmes in Steve Jobs cosplay
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Fell hard down the soft-boiled eggs in the air fryer rabbithole
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Got a waffle maker and think it might be my personality now
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My kid is making one of his signature chicken comics with a Halloween theme. What other horror movie chicken puns are there?
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I managed to write 1,000+ words in my newest story and say no to something I shouldn't take on, is this self-care Monday?
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@BostonBridget
@victorlavalle
@CarolOnAdvLaw
That’s the point, Bridget—there aren’t statistics because it is “handled” without the repercussions or record. The pen does not get put to paper.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies week: Ceridwen Hall’s “How to Write About the Body,” excerpts from Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, Naomi Jackson’s “Her Kind,”
@BrentNYT
's “The Coroner’s Photographs,” David Wong Louie’s “Eat, Memory”
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My room of one’s own vision didn’t involve Covid but here we are
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Amazing how many edits this part of the process always turns up
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My best AWP packing advice is to bring your most fashionable comfortable shoes, NOT your most comfortable fashionable shoes.
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I don’t know why I don’t send more of my writing to my dad, this is pretty much the nicest thing anyone could say to me
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@vic_toriawrites
@LoebDavon
And have a nice decline folder! These are good people to return to.
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@TaraSkurtu
Amazing. Absolute art. I need to know why I clean insect cages is in quotation marks.
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@ambernoelle
I worry that people are losing their ability to appreciate a meandering, gauzy beginning. Like, sometimes you need to be bored AF for at least 50 pages before the payoff starts.
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The students overwhelmingly resonated with the readings, but it was most rewarding to see them individually find "their" essays that showed them something they wanted to try--an experimentation in form, a particular narrative voice, or an approach to a difficult topic.
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What a day. Got to meet online people for the first time in real life, including two of my Tin House cohort mates. Picked up the gorgeous new Touch issue of
@puertomag
with my story “Happy Hour.” Hope to meet more of you tomorrow. Say hi.
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