Diana Dima
@dianadima.com
writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
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For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
strangehorizons.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.
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"I’d dropped hundreds, maybe thousands, of coins into the skull of Francisco Xalbec, and I still wasn’t sure how full it was, but I knew with profound certainty that I had to fill it."
TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀
The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher
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TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀
The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher
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The Skull of Francisco Xalbec - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Every time I died, I received another coin to place in the skull of Francisco Xalbec.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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Guys, it looks *so good*. Can’t wait for you all to read my story in here and the other fictional and poetical delights. The extra cool thing is all the pieces in this issue are in 2nd person!
Our January 2026 issue has gone out to subscribers!
The free-to-read public version of the issue will go up February 2nd, but don't miss out! You can read it now by subscribing through our Patreon!
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The free-to-read public version of the issue will go up February 2nd, but don't miss out! You can read it now by subscribing through our Patreon!
www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Guys, it looks *so good*. Can’t wait for you all to read my story in here and the other fictional and poetical delights. The extra cool thing is all the pieces in this issue are in 2nd person!
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With awards season ramping up, I'm once again compiling a 2025 "Best of" list of works by FFers for your readings lists. So far, it contains work on the BSFA Longlist and recommendations made in Locus, Reactor, and Charles Payseur's Quick Sips.
www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/
www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/
2025 “Best Of”
In compiling this inevitably incomplete “Best Of” list, I’ve listed stories by FFers that appeared on either the Locus Recommended Reading List, the Recommended Reading List in individual issues of…
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January 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
With awards season ramping up, I'm once again compiling a 2025 "Best of" list of works by FFers for your readings lists. So far, it contains work on the BSFA Longlist and recommendations made in Locus, Reactor, and Charles Payseur's Quick Sips.
www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/
www.fusionfragment.com/2025-best-of/
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New short fiction wrapping up 2025. This also features the last issues for two publications, Fantasy (technically on hiatus) and On Spec. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2025 - Reactor
Ten excellent works of short fiction you may have missed in 2025
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January 21, 2026 at 8:08 PM
New short fiction wrapping up 2025. This also features the last issues for two publications, Fantasy (technically on hiatus) and On Spec. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
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New pinned post!
We're ramping up for a tonne of TriCon programming and sign-up announcements! First thing is first, dear readers: make sure you've got your tickets!
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We're ramping up for a tonne of TriCon programming and sign-up announcements! First thing is first, dear readers: make sure you've got your tickets!
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January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
New pinned post!
We're ramping up for a tonne of TriCon programming and sign-up announcements! First thing is first, dear readers: make sure you've got your tickets!
tricon-halifax.com
We're ramping up for a tonne of TriCon programming and sign-up announcements! First thing is first, dear readers: make sure you've got your tickets!
tricon-halifax.com
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the deadlands ISSUE 41
with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved
IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD
check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:
with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved
IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD
check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:
The Deadlands - Issue 41 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Charlotte Suttee, Phoua Lee, Joe Koch, Jeremy Morris, gray lindsey, Dmitri Akers, Aliya Whiteley, Marisca Pichette, Alan M. Fisher, Sadoeuph...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
the deadlands ISSUE 41
with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved
IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD
check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:
with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved
IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD
check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:
So excited for the first 2026 issue of @havenspec.bsky.social - including my flash piece about a birch tree!
Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
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Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
January 20, 2026 at 1:06 AM
So excited for the first 2026 issue of @havenspec.bsky.social - including my flash piece about a birch tree!
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One of my favourite reads from last year. Gorgeous, magical, and dark in a way that glimmers.
Summer in the House of the Departed is a novella close to my heart. I’d love more folks to check it out and help spread the word. For fans of ghosts and grief and occult rituals and town-swallowing portals and melancholy vibes.
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Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Summer in the House of the Departed, by Josh Rountree
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January 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
One of my favourite reads from last year. Gorgeous, magical, and dark in a way that glimmers.
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Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH).
his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…
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January 16, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
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Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi uses poetry like a bullet to shatter the window of one world so you can see into another. Look, unflinching, into "i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs" today:
i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs - Small Wonders
outside, the bullet is going round; blood is swallowing / the city. home is closing in on my people like lost poems.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi uses poetry like a bullet to shatter the window of one world so you can see into another. Look, unflinching, into "i beg; spare me the music, my people do not have mouths for songs" today:
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And hey, check out this full list of @psychopomp.com eligible wonders!!
so much good stuff
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
so much good stuff
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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January 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
And hey, check out this full list of @psychopomp.com eligible wonders!!
so much good stuff
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
so much good stuff
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
YEEES 🎉 this one will be amazing!!
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
YEEES 🎉 this one will be amazing!!
What an awesome list, and so happy to see my @augursociety.bsky.social story "Logoptera" on it!! We need all the Weird in these weird times.
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
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Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
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Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
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January 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM
What an awesome list, and so happy to see my @augursociety.bsky.social story "Logoptera" on it!! We need all the Weird in these weird times.
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it's HERE
our issue 41 table of contents!!
TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤
so let's start with POETRY
thread/
our issue 41 table of contents!!
TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤
so let's start with POETRY
thread/
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
it's HERE
our issue 41 table of contents!!
TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤
so let's start with POETRY
thread/
our issue 41 table of contents!!
TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤
so let's start with POETRY
thread/
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Wonderul flash recs from @ideofmarch.bsky.social including a couple from Heartlines 💗
📚🚀💀🧚♂️It’s that time again! I lost track of how many stories this is (what are numbers? why are numbers?). Flash is heavily represented this year, for people who want a quick read ⏳
#speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit
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#speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit
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2025 Recommended Short Stories
It’s January somehow, which means it’s time to share my annual list of Sci-fi, Horror, Slipstream, and Fantasy stories I enjoyed. Fair…
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January 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Wonderul flash recs from @ideofmarch.bsky.social including a couple from Heartlines 💗
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Friends. The eBooks of our 2025 titles are on sale til the end of the month for just $3 each. Grab @thomasha.bsky.social's amazing debut, or Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1, or Weird Horror 10 and 11. Heck, grab 'em all!
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
EBOOKS — Undertow Publications
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January 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Friends. The eBooks of our 2025 titles are on sale til the end of the month for just $3 each. Grab @thomasha.bsky.social's amazing debut, or Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1, or Weird Horror 10 and 11. Heck, grab 'em all!
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
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Story Hour welcomed 2026 with shiny new stories never heard before—from writers we're always happy to hear from! @nisishawl.bsky.social read one story, and @eileengunn.bsky.social read two (one solo, one collaboration with filmmaker Bob White). Does 2026 suck? Restart it with these stories! #Booksky
January 7, 2026 Story Hour: Eileen Gunn and Nisi Shawl ring in the New Year with brand-new stories!
YouTube video by Story Hour
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January 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Story Hour welcomed 2026 with shiny new stories never heard before—from writers we're always happy to hear from! @nisishawl.bsky.social read one story, and @eileengunn.bsky.social read two (one solo, one collaboration with filmmaker Bob White). Does 2026 suck? Restart it with these stories! #Booksky
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we are so proud of all we did in 2025!
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
psychopomp.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we are so proud of all we did in 2025!
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀
give this post a look!!
find something amazing to read
and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤
psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
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Rhysling noms are open & Hugo/Nebula noms are opening soon 🚀 so here's an incomplete list of speculative poems I loved in 2025⬇️
In @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
"The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" by @rblemberg.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
In @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
"The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" by @rblemberg.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The blanket, the secret, the dark
The birds have flown long ago. But the body, the body is like this: it has swallowed the smaller moon and now it wants to keep it.
strangehorizons.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Rhysling noms are open & Hugo/Nebula noms are opening soon 🚀 so here's an incomplete list of speculative poems I loved in 2025⬇️
In @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
"The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" by @rblemberg.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
In @strangehorizons.bsky.social:
"The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" by @rblemberg.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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we're trying a new thing.
we have an internationally shipping print tier for Patrons.
yes, shipping is expensive -- they wouldn't make it cheap for us even though we are SKELETONS.
join @ $11 if you're non-US-based and want to get a print copy starting with #41 Jan 19th
👇💀
we have an internationally shipping print tier for Patrons.
yes, shipping is expensive -- they wouldn't make it cheap for us even though we are SKELETONS.
join @ $11 if you're non-US-based and want to get a print copy starting with #41 Jan 19th
👇💀
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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January 2, 2026 at 12:28 PM
we're trying a new thing.
we have an internationally shipping print tier for Patrons.
yes, shipping is expensive -- they wouldn't make it cheap for us even though we are SKELETONS.
join @ $11 if you're non-US-based and want to get a print copy starting with #41 Jan 19th
👇💀
we have an internationally shipping print tier for Patrons.
yes, shipping is expensive -- they wouldn't make it cheap for us even though we are SKELETONS.
join @ $11 if you're non-US-based and want to get a print copy starting with #41 Jan 19th
👇💀
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The Iron Garden Sutra is on A LIST with a bunch of other really cool SFF titles coming out 2026. sandwiched between a new Corey book and a new Mandel book, and i couldn't be happier.
80 Out-of-This-World Fantasy & Sci-Fi Reads for 2026
Dedicated readers of science fiction and fantasy already know this cosmic truism: It’s the genre that keeps on giving. Just when you think that auth...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The Iron Garden Sutra is on A LIST with a bunch of other really cool SFF titles coming out 2026. sandwiched between a new Corey book and a new Mandel book, and i couldn't be happier.
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December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!
Flash Roundup * December 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
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December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
December Speculative Flash Roundup! Some truly phenomenal stories this month, and a bonus craft article!
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Welp! Something I never envisioned in all my wildest dreams — my name on the front of Locus magazine.
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Welp! Something I never envisioned in all my wildest dreams — my name on the front of Locus magazine.
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Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact