Diana Dima
@dianadima.com
writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
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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.
smallwondersmag.com
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
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so much good stuff
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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 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
And hey, check out this full list of @psychopomp.com eligible wonders!!
so much good stuff
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so much good stuff
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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🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
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🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
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
undertowpublications.com
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
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Looking to squeeze in some last minute reads or purchases before the end of the year? Here you go!
Well lookie here! It's my best of/most notable/favorite young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror books of 2025! reactormag.com/notable-youn...
Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2025 - Reactor
Check out 30 of the best young adult titles of the year
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December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Looking to squeeze in some last minute reads or purchases before the end of the year? Here you go!
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TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
Some Queer Short SFF - October 2025 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
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December 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN NOVEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's October's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
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It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
A gift to end 2025 — Worlds of Possibility Volume 2!
This second volume collects short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles from the August 2023 to June 2025 issue run of Worlds of Possibility.
www.juliarios.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
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Great to see 6 stories from The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and a story from Weird Horror 10, make @jheverington.bsky.social 's list.
jameseverington.blogspot.com/2025/12/here...
jameseverington.blogspot.com/2025/12/here...
Favourite Short Stories 2025
Here we go: every year, I read a ton of great short stories, and 2025 wasn't an exception. Here's the best of the best. Same 'rules' as for...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Great to see 6 stories from The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and a story from Weird Horror 10, make @jheverington.bsky.social 's list.
jameseverington.blogspot.com/2025/12/here...
jameseverington.blogspot.com/2025/12/here...
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For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
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Fun fact: @thesuiway.bsky.social, @dianadima.com and I got together in a coffee shop last December to write and submit our contributions. Pretty productive writing session!
Hey, looking for some (very brief) ghostly reads for Christmas?
@frostzonestories.bsky.social published a free mini-ebook of "Ghostly Drabbles" (and double-drabbles).
My story, "Halfway Home," is in this, along with top pick, @pbarmby.bsky.social's "Ghosts of Christmas Trees Past!
Holiday ghosts!
@frostzonestories.bsky.social published a free mini-ebook of "Ghostly Drabbles" (and double-drabbles).
My story, "Halfway Home," is in this, along with top pick, @pbarmby.bsky.social's "Ghosts of Christmas Trees Past!
Holiday ghosts!
Frost Bites Ghostly Drabbles
FROST BITES Ghostly Drabbles inspired by the tradition of telling A Ghost Story for Christmas Below is a Temporary flipbook . How well it...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fun fact: @thesuiway.bsky.social, @dianadima.com and I got together in a coffee shop last December to write and submit our contributions. Pretty productive writing session!
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Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!
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One Message Remains
Check out One Message Remains - <p>Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril-"The General's Turn," originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!
bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
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It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again.
smallwondersmag.com/...
smallwondersmag.com/...
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In case you missed it yesterday, I posted about some of my favorite short stories and novelettes of 2025.
acwise.net/favorite-sho...
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Favorite Short Fiction of 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In case you missed it yesterday, I posted about some of my favorite short stories and novelettes of 2025.
acwise.net/favorite-sho...
acwise.net/favorite-sho...