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Anita Gill

@anitagill.bsky.social
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She/her | Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Review | Fulbright Scholar | Tin House ‘25 | Words in Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, The Offing | newsletter: anita.substack.com | website: anitagill.ink

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Calling all writers! Submit your fiction to our reading period before November 15th at 5 pm EST for a chance to be featured in an issue of Ploughshares! pshares.org/submit
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Lorraine Boissoneault @lodrinkswater.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So grateful to @anitagill.bsky.social for reviewing my book, "Body Weather" for Another Chicago Magazine. She really got it! anotherchicagomagazine.net/2026/07/14/t...
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The Storms Within: Review of Lorraine Bossoneault’s “Body Weather” by Anita Gill
There are five sections to the book. One part is titled “Temperature – Thyroid – Denial” and another is “Landslides – Guts – Grief.” Within the sections, Boissoneault discusses the planet through m…
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mantel was amazing
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My third time rejected from MacDowell but when I went to pick up a hold from the library I found there were actually three holds available so yeah I think I’m winning in life.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...
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The Rumpus - El Alboroto
El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Saw someone wearing this great shirt the other day.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
how it feels to be asked about your research
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This reminds me I need to check out my Passport for PBS and watch the Andy Samberg Know Your Roots episode.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This week two people bought the books I recommended. I am now drunk with power.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk wrote about ICE detention and the women who helped her survive. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
How many tote bags do I have to own before they give me a free Prius I’m sure it’s any day now.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Landed in Chicago 45 minutes ago and the man next to me on the Blue Line just ended his phone call with “ya, I gotta get home to give Butkus a steak” which is in the top 5 percent of Chicago sentences you can hear
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Im getting my encouragement from cough drop wrappers now.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Before Mantel died, I wrote to her publicist to see if I could connect with her while I was working on my own historical novel (acting delulu I know). They said no because she was working on several projects at the time. I’m glad I took a chance.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
We are a little over a third of the way through the summer and I have heard Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” disturbingly too many times.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Lisbon has decent copy.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My instructor Adam Levin talking about sinkholes in Chicago.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house. It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Second week of work at Disquiet. Which is mostly me driving a trolley.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We may have the same last name but we are not related and I agree.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Randomly picked this up and it’s all these authors my writing friends keep recommending I check out.
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Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Me after one dance class: Everything hurts and I’m not a surprise talent in this like I had thought.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2025
Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It’s the first day of spring so Chicago does what it does best and we have snow.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m case you’re like me and not headed to AWP this year.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
for those in nyc
EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION!
RELEASE
MAHMOUD KHALL
HANDS OFF
OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES
MON. MAR 10 • 4PM
JACOB K. JAVITS FEDERAL BUILDING
26 FEDERAL PLAZA, NYC
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 09/03/2025
Toni Morrison:
“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: 

“Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple:

1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war.

2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists.

3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout… Can you say the same?! 🤚 Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
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Emily @2amwakeupcall.com · 28/02/2025
REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
TOMORROW 👇👇👇
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
hot take but i love it when we treat each other as utterly indispensable and achingly real because we are
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I wrote about mentors and how important it is to contact them: anita.substack.com/p/literary-a...
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Literary Academy: Letters to Mentors
Give thanks to your sensei
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I have spots open in all 3 groups! Catching Lightning: A Flash Reading/Writing Club February 28-April 4th (skipping March 28th) Group 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST Fridays Group 2: 3:00-4:15 pm EST Fridays Group 3 3:00-4:15 pm EST on Wednesdays Cost $85 total for all 5 weeks or pay per session.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Workshop manuscripts submitted with comments! Ready to talk shop with some fantastic novelists. #thww
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.
Hi, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I saw that [TERRIBLE THING] is happening. I think this is appalling. [PERSONAL STORY, if you have one.] I want you to do everything you can to stop this. I will remember your actions when I cast my next vote. Thank you.
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Last chance to grab your spot in Faylita Hicks's class, Get the Grant! Learn tips and tricks for apply for grants, residencies, fellowships, and awards -- and get the time, space, and financing to give your work the attention it deserves! First of four online classes is TONIGHT!
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Get the Grant: Grant Writing and Personal Development for Writers with Faylita Hicks - StoryStudio Chicago
This four-week course uses downloadable workbooks, online tools, and generative writing, research, and revision prompts to stimulate a highly personalized development practice for writers who want to…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/02/2025
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
THE ASK
This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity.
DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN
TRUMP'S AGENDA
Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how:
1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely.
2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process.
3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze.
4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down.
5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues.
No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have.
Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.
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Mx. Faylita Hicks @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I feel like way too many people forget the role art and music has played in helping us fight against the most egregious of acts throughout history. We need the artists to keep making. The musicians to keep making. Writers to keep writing. The creatives keep our stories and bring us forward.
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Apply!!!
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Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In 2022 I interviewed Azar Nafisi for her book, Read Dangerously. “What choice does the king have but to kick the poets and storytellers out of his republic? And what choice does the poet have but to destabilize the philosopher king’s power by speaking the truth?” therumpus.net/2022/03/07/r...
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Reading Fiction As an Act of Resistance: A Conversation with Azar Nafisi - The Rumpus
We need fiction because fiction does not polarize. Fiction is based on understanding over judgment.
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Kate Hoots @communikater.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
can confirm this is very easy and useful. Yesterday I noticed that you can toggle to find your reps’ local vs DC contact. I like that the app includes scrips you can use, even if you don’t read them verbatim they offer good context and a framework.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you are freaking out, engage with trusted groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Allow them offer some guidance about what you can do and how you can help.
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