Kaya Dierks

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

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

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!! https://t.co/vteT1Umtcq

[The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal]

🎊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: https://t.co/ff4HDzSeLC

[The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal]

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. ✨

[The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal]

Issue Fifty-Five is here! Featuring work by our 2025 Adroit Prizes & Editor's Prizes recipients alongside other luminous writers & artists. 🍂https://t.co/tTBzCT3oMW

[The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal]

Announcing the recipients of the 2025 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, selected by Aria Aber & Danez Smith! https://t.co/ibvYN4vfgq

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@AYLJournal 🩷

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@yongsnotolds This made my day — thank you so so much for reading!!!

[Grace Q. Song @grasoceng]

Finally held my winning poem in @GIGANTICsequins’ 11th Annual Poetry Contest. Deepest thanks to the team at GS & @vikhinao for selecting it

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@grasoceng @GIGANTICsequins @vikhinao “In poems, everything that does not belong to me is mine.” GRACE I CANNOT. this poem is everything and this honor is so so well deserved!!!

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@grasoceng 😍😍😍

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@grasoceng GIRL U KNOW I MEAN IT

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

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!! https://t.co/vteT1Umtcq

[The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal]

🎊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: https://t.co/ff4HDzSeLC

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@OttaviaPaluch OTTAVIA. i am collapsing onto the floor. your work is brilliant and i would die happy being 1/4 of 1/4 of the poet you are. thank you so so much for reading 😭🤍

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@ktontwitr thank you so so much for reading 🫶

[yasmine bolden @monsteramommyy]

ANOTHER KAYA WIN

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@blkpunningpoet YASMINE THANK YOU SO MUCH ILY AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORDS 🤍

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@doubloonmoon ai li your prose is heartbreaking and haunting and this means so, so much from you🫀

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@grasoceng ME WHENEVER YOU WRITE ANYTHING 🫶

[Kaya Dierks @kayadierks]

@grasoceng GRACE i literally sent your smokelong micro to my mentees & BOTH of them independently pointed it out as a favorite of the week