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Kaya Dierks

@kayadierks

Stories in or soon: @BlackWarriorRev, @AdroitJournal, @SmokeLong, etc | she/her

 California
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Joined April 2021
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so excited & grateful to have a story out in @adroitjournal today 🫀 endless gratitude to the editorial team for believing in this story & for giving it a home. and it would mean sm if you checked it out!! theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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The Adroit Journal (@adroitjournal) profile pictureThe Adroit Journal@adroitjournal10 Aug 2023
🎊Issue 46 of the Adroit Journal has arrived! Featuring incredible work from writers like @DanezSmith @PaulHlava @huaxixyz @MandySuzanneW @PhilipMetres and more–we can't wait for you to read. Check it out here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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Join us next Tuesday (10/28) & Wednesday (10/29) for back-to-back virtual readings celebrating Issue Fifty-Five and our Fall prize recipients! RSVP for one or both events at the link in our bio. ✨
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Issue Fifty-Five is here! Featuring work by our 2025 Adroit Prizes & Editor's Prizes recipients alongside other luminous writers & artists. 🍂theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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Announcing the recipients of the 2025 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, selected by Aria Aber & Danez Smith! theadroitjournal.org/2025/10…
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Finally held my winning poem in @GIGANTICsequins’ 11th Annual Poetry Contest. Deepest thanks to the team at GS & @vikhinao for selecting it
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🦦@0hhhttavia11 Aug 2023
I’ve waited literal years for this ⁦@kayadierks⁩ story. You all know how much I love Kaya and her work. She says so much with so little. Her dialogue and characterization abilities astound. It will be a few decades before I write fiction this good. theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
Issue Forty-Six: Kaya Dierks

Issue Forty-Six: Kaya Dierks

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ANOTHER KAYA WIN
Kaya Dierks (@kayadierks) profile pictureKaya Dierks@kayadierks10 Aug 2023
so excited & grateful to have a story out in @adroitjournal today 🫀 endless gratitude to the editorial team for believing in this story & for giving it a home. and it would mean sm if you checked it out!! theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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🌟 I’m so excited to share two poems of mine in the beautiful Cherry Moon Anthology!! Thank you so much to @kayadierks and the rest of the team at @gasherpress for giving them a home. It’s an honor to be among such wonderful company 🤩
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guys...SHE'S HERE. so excited to share CHERRY MOON (@gasherjournal / @gasherpress 2023), a print anthology of emerging asian diaspora voices. so honored to have served as managing editor & worked with @novawangwrites @selvibby @gaiarajan @al_dwinley & @yvannavien 🤍
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celebrating the warmer weather and the start of aapi heritage month with CHERRY MOON!!! so honored to have worked with @gasherpress to edit this special issue 🍒🌙✨
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🦦@0hhhttavia13 Apr 2023
YOU GUYS.
Kaya Dierks (@kayadierks) profile pictureKaya Dierks@kayadierks13 Apr 2023
Replying to @0hhhttavia
I WISH I COULD SAY NO BUT THE ANSWER IS LITERALLY YES😭😭😭😭
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GASHER@gasherjournal6 Apr 2023
A sneak peek at what’s inside our print anthology issue Cherry Moon: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora, featuring over 35 visual artists and writers! We are just one month away from its release so, get your preorders in now! Link in bio for ordering 174pg $22
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GASHER@gasherjournal10 Apr 2023
Our next installment of Gasher Journal in print is opening for submissions soon! AFTER explores the tradition of ekphrastic writing and art in the contemporary moment. We want writing that reimagines, questions, and dissents from ekphrastic writing and art. Link in bio!
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honored to be a finalist for the veasna so scholars program! & excited to have a story forthcoming with @adroitjournal in aug! <3
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We are so thrilled to announce the 2023 Djanikian and Veasna So Scholars! 🎊
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Ashley Lopez@a_la_ash1 Apr 2023
So lovely to be included in @gasherjournal’s Spring ‘23 edition! The pool ladder cover art feels so in tune with my short story questioning whether the search for safety is a black and white endeavor. Big thanks to @kayadierks for the editorial guidance! gasherjournal.com/single-pos…
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GASHER (@gasherjournal) profile pictureGASHER@gasherjournal1 Apr 2023
GASHER Spring 2023 is live! Thank you to all our amazing contributors for helping us to create another fantastic issue. Read the issue using the link in our bio!
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So excited about the fiction in this issue of @gasherjournal. ft. @a_la_ash, Shreya Khullar, & Sasha Fox Carney.
GASHER (@gasherjournal) profile pictureGASHER@gasherjournal1 Apr 2023
GASHER Spring 2023 is live! Thank you to all our amazing contributors for helping us to create another fantastic issue. Read the issue using the link in our bio!
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GASHER@gasherjournal31 Jul 2022
Dear friends of Gasher, Our fundraiser for 2023 has launched and we have a big ask: Our goal is to raise $10,000 in order to continue our mission in 2023. Please consider donating any amount using the link in our bio or by visiting gasherpress.com/2023fundrais…. Thank you!
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Congratulations to the brilliant @lzcrowder, @kayadierks , @JetpackMarne, and @warther_natalie on their Wigleaf Top 50 and Longlist stories! We're so proud of you.❤️
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Congratulations, Kaya! Killer, memorable micro! Everyone @SmokeLong is so happy for you!
Kaya Dierks (@kayadierks) profile pictureKaya Dierks@kayadierks20 Jun 2022
Honored to be on the @Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Endless gratitude to @kathyfish & the Wigleaf team & to @SmokeLong, @Christopher_All, & my friends on here for being the first to believe in this story. ♥️
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