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Dianthe West (she/they)
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🌱 Poet, author, art historian | #AuDHD
🏇♿ ✨💖💛💙✨| P: M. Cassatt
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Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Best hook I've read in a long time. Or maybe it just hit me at the right moment. 💯 😉 #writing #journalism #psychology www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A better life is possible - but only if you dive deep into your unconscious
We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire!
tanithleestoryteller.com
@marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more
June 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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it may not be encouraged but I also got a spring Covid vaccine in Ontario. In Toronto to be more specific. East Toronto to be even more specific and Pharmacare pharmacy on Broadview with lovely Lindsay the Pharmacist to be more specific still!
April 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
April 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
April 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Only a week to go before the BFS and Waterstones' Leeds 'A Conversation on Characterisation.
Tickets just £5. tinyurl.com/characterleeds
11 March, 7pm, Albion St.
@danhanks.bsky.social @katiebruce.bsky.social @mikebrooks668.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social @alethearlyons.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As a US merit scholar, I had one of these #unpaid #internships at a private UK gallery in the 90s. I'll add to this critique that I was de facto cut out of things like galas bc I couldn't afford to buy the clothes. It has always struck me as a bizarre arrangement. The owner was a $$$ celeb.
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
‪I'm waiting for #Canada to whip out the actual head of state. The US administration seems oblivious to the fact PM #Trudeau is not the sovereign. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada's foreign minister says she gave Europe a 'wake-up call' on threat Trump poses to Canada | CBC News
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly concluded her recent tour of Europe saying she delivered a “wake-up call” to Canada’s allies across the Atlantic about the economic and political threat the Trump...
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February 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today, we renamed our house "Castle Fuck It," and I just put a shot of bourbon in my coffee. /how it's going
February 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
January 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
January 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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"We are living through precedented times."
- Historians
November 10, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Achievement unlocked! I've moved from Apprentice to Associate in the #SFWA. Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social, @angrygablepress.bsky.social, @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social & 3rd Estate Art for believing in my work + to my wonderful SFWA mentor, LJ Cohen. #fantasyfiction #SFFH @sfwa.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Contract signed for Goblin-Market-adjacent poetic #climate flash fiction. Coming soon! Excited for this one. #poetry #poet #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #shortstory #SFFH #ChristinaRossetti #preraphaelites #solarpunk #poem #gothiclit #canadianauthor
January 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released!
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January 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released!
Buy
angrygablepress.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I think if I could give one single piece of advice to everyone with ADHD it would be: figure out how your brain works, not how you wish it would
January 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Contract signed for Goblin-Market-adjacent poetic #climate flash fiction. Coming soon! Excited for this one. #poetry #poet #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #shortstory #SFFH #ChristinaRossetti #preraphaelites #solarpunk #poem #gothiclit #canadianauthor
January 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I've been so separated from "real life" at this point that it's starting to feel like a city I moved out of. It's a singularly #cyberpunk experience, I can tell you. #disability #cancer #covidawareness. Makin' it work, tho. Research for a novel, as usual. :D
December 13, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Why are the Wicked cast always crying? Are they doing a PhD?
December 6, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies.

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
November 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 is here with Sapphic Gorgon #poetry of mine! Thanks so much to Angry Gable Press. It's a beautiful book full of beautiful #poets. ✨☕
It’s release day! Please enjoy this beautiful book of Katabatic poetry!

a.co/d/9zrJLYB
November 30, 2024 at 3:40 PM