Dianthe West (she/they)
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Dianthe West (she/they)
@dianthewest.bsky.social
🌱 Poet, author, art historian | #AuDHD
🏇♿ ✨💖💛💙✨| P: M. Cassatt
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
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
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
Happy to announce my poem, "Where I'm From (after George Ella Lyon)," is now free to read in Issue #12 of EXIST OTHERWISE Literary Journal. EXIST OTHERWISE is modeled after artist Claude Cahun, whose gender-bending work defied social norms. Editor: Eric Jennings. existotherwise.cc/issue-12-sep...
September 12, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I‘m more and more grateful for this character trait every day. In lots of people.
July 14, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Is today make your mama cry on a Wednesday day? 🥹💗
July 10, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Just finished sending out my final critiques for the Quebec Writers' Federation masterclass with Su J. Sokol @cycling2asylum.bsky.social. Wonderful workshop. TYSM, Su, and many thanks to my workshop colleagues for critiques and feedback. Highly recommend. 🖋️📚 qwf.org/activities/p...
May 17, 2024 at 7:21 PM
First harvest: spring onions + bok choy. The tofu is also homemade. It's easy + delicious + cheaper than storebought. Bok choy is a great plant for beginners #growing #food. It's problem-free and FAST. About 40 days. (Raise beds if you have critters.) 🌱🥡🥢 #loblawsboycott
May 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Ahaha, don't get me started. I #DJ in one window and write in the other. 😅 Current story in progress = 117 tracks. #horrorwriters #horrorwriterschat #SpecFic #goth #industrial #alternative #postpunk #amwriting
May 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Nanking cherry and Early Golden Japanese plum 4/25/24. #blossoms #cherryblossoms #blossomingplum #permaculture #permies
April 25, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Early #spring garden photos, featuring cabbage, broccoli, and #crocus the rabbits didn't eat. 🐰🌷🥬
April 10, 2024 at 9:35 PM
OMFG it's the sun. ☀️ Ontarians here like:
January 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Publication announcement! I'm beyond thrilled to have three poems about deeeeath and ghosts upcoming in WHISPERS FROM BEYOND from Crystal Lake Entertainment. @crystallake.bsky.social.
December 6, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Love reading these blurbs when I'm buying the item for my 19-year-old ... "This large towel with a hood can transform your newly bathed child into a live blue shark with both back and tail fins." I mean, that could work?
November 23, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Oooo, excited to see this. I just read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall straight through yesterday + the day before. Anne is a deeply underrated Brontë. (Day something-or-other of Unstructured Time.) #gothic www.abacusmediarights.com/programme/42...
November 21, 2023 at 7:38 PM
Every single foster cat that comes through my house is a wonderful, special animal, and I try not to judge based on cuddliness and personality. But occasionally the thought goes like this: "Someone will be very lucky to adopt this cat." 💘😼
November 19, 2023 at 7:11 PM
Pleased to announce my story TAKESHI'S CAT will appear online in Decapitate mag Dec 10. TAKESHI'S CAT is an absurd mash up of beloved fairy tale The White Cat, housing injustice, and a Japanese game show. Decapitate is an art + social justice project of Third Estate Art. www.thirdestateart.org
October 16, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Ahhhh, a first thing in the morning story acceptance is the best story acceptance. LOVE the market this story is going to. Perfect perfect perfect. Deets when I can!
October 7, 2023 at 3:21 PM