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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 12/10/2026

Bay Area! Join us 10/24, 5-6 pm, at Blondie's for a @litquake.bsky.social Lit Crawl reading feat. Eirinie Carson, @lpandell.bsky.social, Lisa Teasley, Laleh Khadivi, and Samantha Stevens. We’ll tackle our mommy issues with rounds of trivia and prizes between readings. Info at bait.reading.com

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 31/08/2026

Bay Area readers, writers, and art appreciators! The next BAIT reading is September 18 at 6 pm at @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social, with an all-star group of Eirinie Carson, Laleh Khadivi, aracelis girmay, and Kerry Donoghue. Free to attend, with a Q&A after the readings. More info at baitreading.com.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 05/05/2026

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

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 01/05/2026

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...

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 03/04/2026

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

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 31/03/2026

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-...

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 05/03/2026

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?")

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 28/02/2026

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.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 12/01/2026

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

Poster for BAIT Reading on January 30 at 6 pm at the Sausalito Public Library (420 Litho Street in Sausalito). Images of authors Jon Hickey, Lexi Pandell, Sommer Schafer, and Tomas Moniz.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 04/11/2025

This Friday! Join us for a free reading event @sausalitolibrary.bsky.social. Full details at baitreading.com.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 14/10/2025

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

BAIT (Bay Area in) inaugural reading event on November 7 at 6 pm at the Sausalito Library, featuring Sasha Vasilyuk, Lisa Teasley, Susanna Kwan, Armen Davoudian, and Jaime Cortez.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 08/10/2025

It never hurts to disclose your sign

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 05/10/2025

This is what we call foreshadowing

Two crystal skulls, one large and clear and one small and made of tiger’s eye, sit atop a marigold colored notebook next to a computer keyboard.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 27/09/2025

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...

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 31/05/2025

Why am I only now learning about Goth dahlias?

Sunset colored dahlia flower with dark, almost black foliage

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 01/04/2025

AWP was a bit of everything new and old

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 27/03/2025

Tonight! Hope to see some of you there. And if you see me wandering around AWP, please say hi. I have a terrible IRL facial recognition, so I’ll probably be squinting at name tags.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 17/03/2025

What a joy to see literary stars and BFFs in action

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 06/03/2025

Brb selling an organ so we can see Tyler again

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 12/01/2025

I was in my twenties in a random Studio City bar at midnight on NYE and a septuagenarian leaned over and said, you know who you look like? Petula Clark. Strangely, she’s also my birthday twin.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 06/01/2025

Really like what these rays have done with the place

Spotted pink rays in an aquarium with branches.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 09/12/2024

Seasonal update/potential album cover

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 24/03/2024

Exciting mail from Chicago Quarterly Review yesterday

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 24/02/2024

Visiting the ladies at the deYoung

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 25/01/2024

Taking a break from the novel to revisit the story collection.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 20/01/2024

Somehow my favorite reading spot at the library was free.

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 14/01/2024

January reading is off to a good start

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Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com · 07/01/2024

“It stands alone amid the endless row of cedars that line the road, its bright red color so sudden and distracting—like the appearance of a door among the evergreens—” May all our environmental descriptions go this hard.