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anitafelicelli.bsky.social
author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
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My #AWP2025 trove 1/4: #amadahawkinspoet #vaughnmwatson #olgazilberbourg #brazenheadreview @anitafelicelli.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

A fly thru of the set I hand built for the current issue of Alta Journal.

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social interviewed @eowynivey.bsky.social about "Black Woods, Blue Sky" for Alta:

so good. www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

Here's a fun thing: We at Kirkus have spent the last few months reading and debating the best books of the 21st century (so far!) in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. Here's the list of 100 fiction titles: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

enjoyed talking to Eowyn Ivey about Alaska, folklore, bears, writing and her latest novel Black Woods, Blue Sky. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

so psyched about this 🎉

Thank you to our friends @clmporg.bsky.social for including HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by @anitafelicelli.bsky.social and MARISOLANDIA by @menopunk.bsky.social on their 2025 Women's History Month reading list! 📚✨ Learn more about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MARISOLANDIA: bit.ly/3CLvaYB

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social reviewed Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel" for the Los Angeles Times:

Out Tuesday! See you at a reading 👀

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

What a dream to be read in such a thoughtful and generous way. Thank you!

We're so excited for the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles! Visit us at booth #T330 and have your books signed our brilliant authors! Author signings will include: @janishubschman.bsky.social, @menopunk.bsky.social , @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, LIZ GREEN, and @henryhoke.bsky.social.

I reviewed Laila Lalami's excellent speculative, character-driven novel, The Dream Hotel, for the LA Times. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

I loved Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot and wrote about it for Alta Magazine: www.altaonline.com/california-b...

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch's "Reading the Waves" for Alta:

"I’m interested in the coast as a kind of threshold to entering what’s mysterious and uncontainable..." Ursula Villarreal-Moura interviews @anitafelicelli.bsky.social about How We Know Our Time Travelers (@wtawpress.bsky.social). ➡️ https://buff.ly/4gyo8UT

"I was trying to access that sensation of limitlessness, the moodiness of the ocean, how it can go dark in a flash." @anitafelicelli.bsky.social discusses her latest book, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, with Ursula Villarreal-Moura (via @therumpus.net): therumpus.net/2025/02/10/a...

so fun to talk with author Ursula Villarreal-Moura over at @therumpus.net about How We Know Our Time Travelers, invented technologies, aging and urgency, and speculative fiction. therumpus.net/2025/02/10/a...

Thank you Redwood City Library hosting @anitafelicelli.bsky.social & myself for Anita’s darkly dreamy & sharp How We Know Our Time Travelers! Thank u full house audience & @anngelder.bsky.social @ilzeduarte.bsky.social @jayrit.bsky.social Caroline Kim @gracelp.bsky.social @2waystreet.bsky.social!

Actually racist trolls do threaten brown kids, because they’re not just ‘on the internet’. White parents often have trouble understanding the experience of their mixed kids, but they’re not usually actively enabling hate against them

TOMORROW Redwood City Public Library hosts @anitafelicelli.bsky.social in conversation with @lillianhowan.bsky.social to discuss and read from Anita's latest short story collection, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS. Learn more about How We Know Our Time Travelers here: bit.ly/42LjkIg

kakistocracy.

Local people: I can't make it but if you can, do. This is a fucking brilliant fiction collection

looking forward to a conversation about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS with novelist Lillian Howan on Saturday, February 8 at 3 pm at the Redwood City Public Library (downtown), 1044 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City. swing by and say hi, please!

Destabilization of reality in the US is about to reach surreal heights. Protect your mind. Monitor stress levels. Do not doomscroll--it does not help. Be selective about when and how long you expose your brain to this. Do what you can when you can.

great conversation among Viet Thanh Nguyen, Don McKellar, Rumaan Alam, and host John Freeman about The Sympathizer at Alta's California Book Club on Tuesday night. event recap + video. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

Happy New Year! 🐍🌹🌹

Worth remembering that it was a coup attempt--an attempt to steal Congress's powers and turn the presidency into a dictatorship--and that pushing back mattered. Thanks to everyone who raised a ruckus....

Listen to this beautiful conversation about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and the writing life between author Anita Felicelli and host Marion Roach Smith on this episode of QWERTY. marionroach.com/2025/01/how-... #podcast #authorinterview #writinglife #storycollection #indieauthors

Romance for the literati! I love the way @anitafelicelli.bsky.social stages moments of deep connection between people in totally overwhelming situations. Because even when the world comes crashing down on you -- literally -- you want to hold your loved one's hand. #booksky @wtawpress.bsky.social

I wish some programmer would invent a document-creation software that doesn't require me to look at stupid AI prompts every time I try to write something.

This stuff is a disaster. It is now impossible to avoid, and is so antithetical to how writing works that we're threatening to make writing meaningless. I discuss this bad path in my forthcoming book. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

This goes hard

Fun to chat with memoirist Marion Roach Smith about writing life, early influences, internal/external life, the epistolary form and the short story on the QWERTY podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

great essay by @lilliamr.bsky.social on the color red.

Fascinating, and horrifying. Will they simply erase history or eventually replace it with something revised/rewritten? “JAN 6 was uneventful, a bit cold.”

I wrote about my brief unlikely local politics interlude for @thecut.com. Written with love for Portland & loathing for the genocidal clowns who made national politics so alienating. If you have an amazing friend maybe you can accidentally be her campaign manager too. www.thecut.com/article/how-...

President Trump has signed 9* separate executive orders that herald sweeping changes to the immigration system and to communities inside the US. We broke down: - What they do - What's happened already - What's to come - What this all means. Follow with me for a thread on what you need to know 🧵

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)