Diane R. Wiener (she/they)

I'm chuffed that @wordgathering.bsky.social published my story, "Bedtime stories for little potatoes" in Wordgathering Volume 19 Issue 2.

My piece "What Venus de Milo Taught Me About ‘Broken’ Bodies" is up at @wordgathering.bsky.social. Thrilled to be in this issue - go check out the whole Winter 2025-2026 edition!

Have a new piece that will be up tomorrow in the new issue of @wordgathering.bsky.social - truly honored and VERY excited!

SO FAB

We are very pleased to inform you that the Winter 2025-2026 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue2/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

As What's Left Is Tender is almost half a year old, I'm honored that Michael Northen reviewed my debut collection for @wordgathering.bsky.social, which first gave my disability-centered work a home: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue2...

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Braille periodic tables being made at ACS Fall YouTube video by Chemical & Engineering News

My colleague and co-author Dr. Mona Minkara is a blind #chemistry professor. She worked with other science professors to make braille periodic tables! Each table uses tactile dots to show the element's essential info!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XR...

Happy Year of the Fire Horse

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Excited and honored to have my CNF piece, "Slingshot," reprinted in the Beyond Words anthology, Father Stories: Narratives of Fatherhood.

Blessed Imbolc

Happy and blessed Winter Solstice

Today's a federal holiday because on the eve of the 20th century machinists, carpenters, and people who worked in mills, mines, and factories joined together to fight for better wages and a day to honor working people.

If you're enjoying the holiday today, thank the labor movement.

Awesome. Thank you!

WOOOOOOT

We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

#CripLit #CripArts

New poem on WienerBlog

CW: fascism, grief, loss, violence

dianerwiener.com/2025/07/27/n...

A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses We asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in honor of Disability Pride Month, observed ann...

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Celebrate ADA 35 Years Celebrate ADA 35 Years (1990-2025) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). + #ThanksToTheADA Campaign + ADA Anniversary Tool Kit, Logos and Themes + Add Your ADA 35 Event

Celebrate the ADA at 35

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#ADA@35

New poem on WienerBlog, “Ephemeral Restoration,” with an epigraph from—and with gratitude to—June Jordan.

Mostly, the paintings, of late, have been my offered poems. But here’s a written poem.

CW: Difficult topics include war, death, loss, grief

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AAPD Medicaid Defense Hub - AAPD

www.aapd.com/Medicaid/

Fight for Medicaid

One month from today, the ADA will be 35 years old.

Let's make sure it keeps on.

Blessed Solstice

What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

www.history.com/articles/wha... What Is Juneteenth? | HISTORY

I'm made of rainbows all year. Not just in June. Ask anyone.

Yasssssssss

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We are delighted to inform you that the Spring 2025 book reviews and review essays special supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Our next full issue (Summer 2025) will be published in early August or late July. Huzzah!

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I remember you, I honor you, and I thank you.

I am honored to share that I learned this morning my CNF piece, “Slingshot,” will be published in Beyond Words Literary Magazine’s father-themed anthology in Dec.

Originally pub’d in eMerge: emerge-magazine.com/slingshot/

CW: Mental illness, suicide, violent human & nonhuman animal death, racism.

May the fourth and the Schwartz be with you.