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Anca L. Szilágyi

@ancaszilagyi.bsky.social
2.1K followers 1.1K following 982 posts

Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.

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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 17h
Time to mail more @votefwd.bsky.social letters and take on the arduous task of eating ice cream at an ice cream fundraiser.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 17h
I'm honored to see my @orionmagazine.bsky.social piece on garlic included in this @thefern.org round up alongside pieces from The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, & Long Reads. Lots of good stuff in the round up. Have we reached peak protein? I hope so. thefern.org/blog_posts/f...
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FERN’s Friday Feed: The Return of the Farmer Politician | Food and Environment Reporting Network
“Trump’s tariffs and war in Iran have raised the prices of goods and gas and closed global markets, making what was already a U.S. farming crisis even worse. In some races, farmers are stepping up to…
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 20h
In the summer of 2025, a small group of women stood silently at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, holding empty pots to protest starvation as a war crime in Gaza. One counterprotester leered at the women close-up, shrieking “you’re all over 80, you’re ugly, you’ll end up in the cemetery soon, enjoy”.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 22h
Seats are going fast for my in-person *free* @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class at the Rogers Park branch of @chipublib.bsky.social! Learn more & sign up here: chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6abc1... #amwriting
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Write at CPL: Character, Emotion, and Suspense
Join other aspiring authors this fall for Write at CPL, a series of workshops presented by our partners at Story Studio. This workshop will focus on Character, Emotion, and Suspense and is led by Anca...
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Risto Niemi-Pynttäri @pynttari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Valkosipulin euforia, sen antama huuma ja itseluottamus syntyvät näin. Epävarma ihminen usein vain kuvittelee tuoksuvansa liikaa valkosipulilta, häpeää itseään. Mutta jos on jo herkutellut valkosipuliruualla, tilanne on peruuttamaton, voi vain olla tyytyväinen. orionmagazine.org/article/garl...
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Garlic - Orion Magazine
The poor man’s spice
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Levi Fuller @denimclature.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excellent.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Raise your hands if you're excited for #OpenHouseChicago! 😊
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who here has listened to the audio book for WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY? And has it made you pronounce "cruel" as "cru-elle" forevermore? I cannot stop saying it that way. It tickles me so.
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In praise of "the poor man's spice." orionmagazine.org/article/garl...
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Garlic - Orion Magazine
The poor man’s spice
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"my eighth-grade daughter told me that her class had just started reading Night, Elie Wiesel’s memoir of surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald. She told me that it was really hard, but really important, and she was glad she was reading it." lilith.org/articles/the... @lilithmagazine.bsky.social
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They Read 'Night'— So I Read 'Nobody’s Girl' - Lilith Magazine
A reminder to bear witness, even when it's hard.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This morning I came across an ad for real estate auctions. There was a former orphanage turned into a mansion and a former jail turned into an office building with a bar. So many stories in buildings! www.newberry.org/calendar/arc... #amwriting
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Architectural Stories: A Writing Workshop
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was overwhelmed by the number of campaigns I can help through Vote Forward so I am cross-referencing endorsements from environmental organizations to help me decide which candidates to support.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My ballot has arrived. Time to read Injustice Watch's election guide! www.injusticewatch.org
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Guide homepage
Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This morning I came across an ad for real estate auctions. There was a former orphanage turned into a mansion and a former jail turned into an office building with a bar. So many stories in buildings! www.newberry.org/calendar/arc... #amwriting
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Architectural Stories: A Writing Workshop
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Youngish Chicago artists (Writers! Musicians! Visual artists!) you need to apply to Luminarts Cultural Foundation. If you are 18-30 years old, and live within 150 miles of the Chicago Loop, you are eligible to win a $10,000 fellowship to support your work 🧵 luminarts.submittable.com/submit
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Easy / to recognize the ray's slide, / the undulation of wing / over a helpless line / of shrimp." -from "Coco Cay" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil in MIRACLE FRUIT
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have replaced "eat a pickle over the sink o'clock" with "eat a fruit while looking at a tree o'clock."
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unrayocruel.bsky.social @unrayocruel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
El ajo, la “especia del pobre” El ajo aparece vinculado a diferencias sociales y culturales: mientras algunos sectores refinados lo despreciaban como alimento humilde, las clases populares lo incorporaban ampliamente a su cocina.
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Garlic - Orion Magazine
The poor man’s spice
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ahhhhhh!!! @the-big-quiet.bsky.social in the house!!!! I am so happy about this!!!!!
RARE GOOD by Steve Edwards in my hand
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh boy oh boy; I cannot wait! blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/28/d...
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De Colores, From Edgewater Tacos Owner, Coming To Andersonville This Fall
The new restaurant on Clark Street will serve a Latin fusion menu and offer sit-down service.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do I know anyone here familiar with Grand Rapids, MI? Can you recommend coffee shops where writing can get done?
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My @newberrylibrary.bsky.social class Architectural Stories: A Writing Workshop starts in just under 4 weeks! Join us in person starting 10/22: www.newberry.org/calendar/arc... #chicago #writingclass
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Architectural Stories: A Writing Workshop
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do I know anyone here familiar with Grand Rapids, MI? Can you recommend coffee shops where writing can get done?
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Where my garlic lovers at? I'm thrilled to have a new essay about garlic in @orionmagazine.bsky.social today! orionmagazine.org/article/garl... #foodsky #booksky
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Garlic - Orion Magazine
The poor man’s spice
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Sarah Starr Murphy @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ancaszilagyi.bsky.social is my favorite foodie writer and she strikes again here with a fitting tribute to garlic. I love garlic, and now I am hungry.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Where my garlic lovers at? I'm thrilled to have a new essay about garlic in @orionmagazine.bsky.social today! orionmagazine.org/article/garl... #foodsky #booksky
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Garlic - Orion Magazine
The poor man’s spice
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John Gage @johngage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Environmental Voter Project exists to contact and motivate the non-voting public that cares about the environment to show up at the polls. It's one of the best direct ways of increasing the ranks of people who will vote for a better future for all. Give them a hand! www.environmentalvoter.org
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Environmental Voter Project
We identify inactive environmentalists and transform them into consistent voters to build the power of the environmental movement.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's not too late to sign up for Generative Writing with Playful Interaction @writingco-lab.bsky.social. Students rave about how much they get out of my 2-hour classes! TIA for helping me spread the word. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/play... #amwriting #booksky
Co-Lab fans know that Anca Szilágyi packs a lot into a two hour session. Students have raved about how she's helped them kickstart projects and see their way around roadblocks. In her new class, Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction, she'll lead you through associative improv games and other fun exercises to get your pen moving. You'll have a chance to share what you create too, in a supportive environment, so that when you leave you'll be excited to build on your breakthroughs. Only $50 for a two hour session! Enroll today!Writing Co-Lab
Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction
1 Session with Anca L. Szilágyi
$50
Tuesday, September 22nd
7-9 pm Eastern
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's not too late to sign up for Generative Writing with Playful Interaction @writingco-lab.bsky.social. Students rave about how much they get out of my 2-hour classes! TIA for helping me spread the word. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/play... #amwriting #booksky
Co-Lab fans know that Anca Szilágyi packs a lot into a two hour session. Students have raved about how she's helped them kickstart projects and see their way around roadblocks. In her new class, Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction, she'll lead you through associative improv games and other fun exercises to get your pen moving. You'll have a chance to share what you create too, in a supportive environment, so that when you leave you'll be excited to build on your breakthroughs. Only $50 for a two hour session! Enroll today!Writing Co-Lab
Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction
1 Session with Anca L. Szilágyi
$50
Tuesday, September 22nd
7-9 pm Eastern
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meets in one week!
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I had a lot of fun this afternoon planning my lesson for this @writingco-lab.bsky.social class, Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction. Join me online a week from tomorrow! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/play... #booksky #amwriting
Generative Writing Through Playful Interaction, 1 session with Anca L. Szilágyi,$50Tuesday, September 22nd7-9 pm Eastern
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Flavor Bible says bay leaf makes pumpkin taste more pumpkin-like. Have you found this to be true, #foodsky? I think I'd like to try it.
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Kris Waldherr @kriswaldherr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The most Anca thing ever.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A first in my life: sitting by the window, quietly eating an apple and looking at a moth on the other side of the screen, and a cardinal flies right up puts the whole moth in its beak and flies away.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A first in my life: sitting by the window, quietly eating an apple and looking at a moth on the other side of the screen, and a cardinal flies right up puts the whole moth in its beak and flies away.
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Bluestem @bluestemmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
First up for our contributor spotlight for our Summer 2026 issue is @melostrom.bsky.social (with her dog, Mocha!)
Melissa Olstrom / Flash fiction / "Cattails and Regret"Melissa Olstrom is the author of this deliciously colloquial flahs piece.Melissa's sweet dog, MochaFirst line: "I grew up in Silver Marsh and almost didn't leave."
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sometimes I want to request an interlibrary loan just for the thrill of it.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Meets in 18 days!
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm excited to teach a collaborative class @writingco-lab.bsky.social demystifying the short story with Stephanie Feldman, Danielle Lazarin, Rachel Lyon, & Lena Valencia, 9/9-10/14. My session, "Character & Mystery" is 9/16. The series for $450 or individual sessions are $100. #amwritingfiction
5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar at Writing Co-Lab with Stephanie Feldman, Danielle Lazarin, Rachel Lyon, Anca Szilágyi, Lena Valencia.

$450
Wednesdays
Sept 9 to October 14th
7-9 pm Eastern5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar at Writing Co-Lab 
Anca Szilágyi on
Character and Mystery
Wednesday 
September 16th
7-9 pm Easter
$450 for all
or
$100 per session
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm excited to teach a collaborative class @writingco-lab.bsky.social demystifying the short story with Stephanie Feldman, Danielle Lazarin, Rachel Lyon, & Lena Valencia, 9/9-10/14. My session, "Character & Mystery" is 9/16. The series for $450 or individual sessions are $100. #amwritingfiction
5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar at Writing Co-Lab with Stephanie Feldman, Danielle Lazarin, Rachel Lyon, Anca Szilágyi, Lena Valencia.

$450
Wednesdays
Sept 9 to October 14th
7-9 pm Eastern5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar at Writing Co-Lab 
Anca Szilágyi on
Character and Mystery
Wednesday 
September 16th
7-9 pm Easter
$450 for all
or
$100 per session
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My September newsletter went out to subscribers yesterday morning. Tell me, who *hasn't* considered bathing donkey milk? mailchi.mp/bb609e90d05e...
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September News
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Baroque chamber music for reading student work. Mingus Big Band for scanning published stories I want to teach. These are the rules (today).
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Sarah Starr Murphy @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“We’d hunch forward on that pink sofa, plastic plates in our laps, forlornly cutting beef sausage with inadequate plastic knives. Oh, that sausage, seemingly squat, never seemed to end!” No one writes food like @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social - what a great little trio of micros!
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"At Mars Cheese Castle in Wisconsin, beef summer sausage is the purchase I always feel compelled to buy yet immediately regret." ICYMI, I'm happy to have three micro nonfiction pieces in Bluestem's summer issue. bluestemmagazine.com/s26/anca-szi... #foodwriting #amwritingmemoir
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Three Micros: Soup Baths, Children's Food, Beef Sausage on a Pink Leather Couch — Bluestem Magazine
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was today years old when I learned coloring with crayons help kids develop their writing skills because their waxy resistance (compared with markers and pencils) strengthens their fingers and hands, making it easier for them to write for longer periods.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This makes me want to cry. chicago.suntimes.com/weather/2026...
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Temperatures could feel hotter than 100 degrees this week, forecasters say
Chicago itself will likely be spared the hottest heat index of nearly 105 degrees, which is expected to hit the south suburbs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"At Mars Cheese Castle in Wisconsin, beef summer sausage is the purchase I always feel compelled to buy yet immediately regret." ICYMI, I'm happy to have three micro nonfiction pieces in Bluestem's summer issue. bluestemmagazine.com/s26/anca-szi... #foodwriting #amwritingmemoir
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Three Micros: Soup Baths, Children's Food, Beef Sausage on a Pink Leather Couch — Bluestem Magazine
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Early bird discounts end today! Join me online for Fiction I. #amwritingfiction
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Early bird discounts end today! Join me online for Fiction I. #amwritingfiction
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