Dia VanGunten is an inventive voice. Her work is modern and painfully familiar, but it's always imbued with magic.
After a 20 year hiatus, VanGunten recently returned to publishing. Prior to June of 2022, she worked in isolation.
2022 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS for Pink Zombie Rose's story Heart Of December published in the "Embodiment" Issue of Fatal Flaw (December 2022) and White Teeth / Black Leather publsihed in the "Desire" Issue of X by Viridian Door (November 2022
In Kinda Weird Magazine, there's "Contact," an ode to radio that is both jubilant and heart-wrecking. In Polyester, there's "On Snooze," an anti-ode to dick pics and the men who send them. In Cringe, the frenetic "Weight" confronts systemic sexism under the lens of celebrity scandal. In Outlander, Bewebbed is a love letter to VanGunten's varied online connections. Art, culture, fashion, feminism, music. While distinctly cerebral, Dia VanGunten's CNF has playful intimacy. Her conversational, confessional style is informed by pop culture, punk rock and neuroscience. These same elements are afoot in her fiction, as ongoing themes in Pink Zombie Rose.
Polyester Magazine (Cultire and Gender, out of London) September 2022
Kinda Weird Magazine (Music, out of London) November 2022
In the Mood Magazine (TV / media, out of London) December 2022
Cringe (Cuture and Gender, London) November 2022
In the Mood Magazine (Summer 2023)
Cream Scene Carnival (May 2023)
Solstice Literary / Summer Issue (June 2022) Memoir / CNF
Run Amok Books (June 2022) writing on Craft / cnf
Dipity Literary Mag (October 2022) Poem
Dipity Literary Mag (October 2022) Poem / CNF
Outlander (November 2022) CNF
Outlander (November 2022) CNF
Outlander (October 31st 2022)
Caustic Frolic (December 2022)
Outlander "Incognito" November 2022
Soft Star (November 2022)
Cream Scene Carnival (December)
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits II (Winter 2023)
Scavengers Lit (winter 2023)
Apocalypse Confidential (Valentines 2023)
Cream Scene Carnival (Valentines 2023)
Fatal Flaw - Agency (Winter 2023)
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits III (Summer 2023)
God's Cruel Joke (Summer 2023)
Fully illustrated by Beppi! (Also available as text only - two separate books)
Released by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press
Open Sewers
X by Viridian Door -- Desire / Senses Issue
100 Subtexts -- Halloween issue
Funemployment Press -- Autumn Anthology 2022
Caustic Frolic -- Chaos issue
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits III (Summer 2023)
God's Cruel Joke (Summer 2023)
Fully illustrated by Beppi! (Also available as text only - two separate books)
Released by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press
Hype, copy, brochures, pamphlets, fashion writing, music writing.
Announcements, fuck you texts, love poems & the like.