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Anca L. Szilágyi

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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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Child has made a pillow fort with TWO calming rooms.

11.03.2026 00:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How could I forget to include these graphics, including this adorable panda?

10.03.2026 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Transforming Fairy Tales Understand artistic techniques in fairy tales across time and how contemporary writers draw on an old form to make something new.

Transforming Fairy Tales @newberrylibrary.bsky.social, 3/31-4/21, 6-7:30pm CT. www.newberry.org/calendar/tra...

10.03.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fiction I with Anca Szilágyi | Hugo House Fiction Class Take your fiction writing to the next level. This class focuses on voice, style, structure, and revision to help you create powerful, polished work.

Fiction III @HugoHouse, 4/6-6/15, 12-2pm CT
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10.03.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Triangular Relationships as Engines for Tension and Conflict, 1 session with Anca L. Szilágyi — Writing Co-Lab Are you a conflict-averse fiction writer? This class is for you! We will consider examples of triangular relationships in fiction as a fruitful source of tension and conflict and engine of story. How ...

Spring classes! 🌹 All over Zoom.

Triangular Relationships @writingco-lab.bsky.social, 3/11, 6-8pm CT www.writingco-lab.com/classes/tria...

#booksky #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity

10.03.2026 14:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a wonderful issue! I was moved by "'Everywhere They Talk Only of You': The Celebrity Courtesans and the Writers Who Defiled Them" by Leslie Zemeckis. And "Cooties" by Alissa Nutting is great & you can read it here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/coot...

10.03.2026 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mike Simmons centers upbringing, legislation in congressional bid After five years in the Illinois General Assembly, State Sen. Mike Simmons (D-Chicago) has passed about 50 bills. Now, Simmons is aiming for Washington, D.C., where he believes he can have an even gre...

"First elected to the Illinois Senate in 2021, Simmons has shepherded the first state-level child tax credit in America through the state legislature and recently helped relieve medical debt for 340,000 Illinois residents." dailynorthwestern.com/2026/03/04/c...

09.03.2026 19:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Triangular Relationships as Engines for Tension and Conflict meets in two days, online with @writingco-lab.bsky.social. Join us Wednesday, 7-9pm ET/6-8pm CT/4-6pm PT! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/tria...

09.03.2026 14:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's been lovely meeting contributors and fans of Fairy Tale Review the last two days. Come by at 1 pm today to meet Temperence Aghamohammadi! Booth 840, by Wayne State University Press. #awp26

07.03.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where can you find me at #awp26? I'll be haunting the Fairy Tale Review booth (840), celebrating The Silver Issue. Come meet contributors @lwcoates.bsky.social and Danika Paige Meyers on Friday at 10:30 and 11:30, respectively, and Temperance Aghamohammadi on Saturday 1-3 pm. It's a gorgeous issue!

04.03.2026 15:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

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04.03.2026 16:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where can you find me at #awp26? I'll be haunting the Fairy Tale Review booth (840), celebrating The Silver Issue. Come meet contributors @lwcoates.bsky.social and Danika Paige Meyers on Friday at 10:30 and 11:30, respectively, and Temperance Aghamohammadi on Saturday 1-3 pm. It's a gorgeous issue!

04.03.2026 15:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

Can't wait to pick up this anthology of fairy tales from @lfpbooks.bsky.social at #awp26!

04.03.2026 15:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At AWP especially, it helps presses not have to ship a bunch of books back home (an additional cost). And there are usually sweet sales.

Authors, link to your PRESS website for sales, not Amazon. I see the numbers and it truly makes a difference. 👏

I assume it's like this for all indies?

04.03.2026 11:22 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

As y'all head off to #awp26, I am calculating our author royalties. I cannot stress this enough - buy small press books directly from publishers. It's the way everyone makes the most money and art can continue to happen!

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Writing with Abstract Art - Ploughshares In her essay “Art Objects,” Jeanette Winterson challenges readers to experiment with looking at an original work of art (ideally something you like, at least a little) for an entire hour. She supposes...

A friend asked for advice on teaching writing from art. She found my @pshares.bsky.social post about abstract art (from ye olde 2014) helpful, so I'm sharing it in case it helps anyone else. Gosh, 2014 feels ancient in internet time. pshares.org/blog/writing...

03.03.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy #RareDiseaseDay to all who contemplate.

28.02.2026 18:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A few have asked, soperhaps more have the same question: after you set up the account (which takes just a moment), you'll need to read about 20% of the sample (that's about 2,000 words) before it will let you "like" or comment on it. Thanks so much for your support. I am proud of this novel! ❤

27.02.2026 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is so sad!

27.02.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, even though I don't know what the end-game is, I get the feeling I shouldn't let them stay, so i always delete. But it's endless!

27.02.2026 15:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If I can figure out where the sign up link that is drawing all the bots is, I would happily delete it. At least it is always clear which ones the bots are.

27.02.2026 02:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is actually Mailchimp. But I'm not sure any platform is immune.

26.02.2026 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have lots of bots signing up for my email newsletter and it feels related somehow but I don't understand how.

26.02.2026 22:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Elena Ferrante" included an author photo in her email to me...and followed up when I didn't respond!

26.02.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

😀 ::dusts off hands::

26.02.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh. I'd seen the cover image and was vaguely aware of this one, but what you highlight of the blurb is even more intriguing. Thank you.

26.02.2026 22:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's what I'm feeling! Fucking going for it. John Waters, crab cakes, continuing to put my writing out there. What else is there? Cake, I suppose!

26.02.2026 22:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

*Correction! This is my expectation of 44. Advice from people who have been 44?

26.02.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Moving on with my silly palindrome ramble, tomorrow I'm 44 & I'm hoping to be screen-free so I'm doing this now. 44! So much more interesting than 33. My only solid plan for #AWP26 next week is to wait patiently for John Waters's keynote. I will line up as early as they'll let me. This is 44.

26.02.2026 22:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

It is relentless, this tide of scams.

26.02.2026 21:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1