Essay & Fiction Writing
LITERARY JOURNALS
NONFICTION
Espadrilles - https://www.burningword.com/2025/01/espadrilles/ - 2025
Camus essay - https://assayjournal.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/the-backlist-albert-camus-lyrical-and-critical-essays-dian-parker/ - 2024
[Color Days | Amsterdam Review - AMSTERDAM REVIEW - Amsterdam 2024
One More Time - https://mastersreview.com/2024-reprint-prize-winner-and-shortlist/ - 2024 - Shortlisted for Reprint Prize
Essay] Geography of a Body in Heat — Dian Parker – New Critique - London 2024
Beyond Control by Dian Parker | Yolk Literary: Non-fiction - Montreal 2024
The Vanished — Passager - 2024
Obsession with Books - Contemporary Literary Review India - 2024
Extravagant Diversity - Deep Wild Journal - 2024
Venetian Red and other Fates – After the Art - 2023 - Best of Net nomination and Pushcart nomination
Color of Time Dian Parker — Tiny Molecules - 2023 - Best of Net nomination and Pushcart nomination
Airborne - Chicago Story Press - 2023
Aggregates | Burningword Literary Journal - 2022https://www.burningword.com/2022/07/aggregates/ Best of Net nomination
Consideration of Tasks - https://www.burningword.com/2023/07/consideration-of-tasks/- 2023
Critical Read - Small Acts; Huge Consequences - Small Acts; Huge Consequences - Raft Magazine - 2022
Brevity - How to write a personal essay with facts - https://brevity.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/how-to-write-a-personal-essay-with-facts/ -2022
Libretto Long - https://librettong.com/2022/06/26/ecstatic-fireflies-dian-parker - 2022
Ginosko Literary Journal - Art of Falling - 2022
Aislin Magazine - Greed for Peonies - 2022
Hotazel Review - Funambulist | Hotazel Review (hotazelreviewlit.org) - Africa, 2022 - Best of the Net nomination
Sky Island Journal – Art and the Psyche - 2022; Now and Then - Issue 19, 2022
Cerasus Magazine – Power of Pink - London, 2022
Tiny Molecules – The Wind is not Random, 2021, Dian Parker, Food — Tiny Molecules - Culinary Delights, 2022
Adelaide – Perils of Belief – NYC & Lisbon, 2021
Channel – Inside the Earth - Dublin, 2021
Spellbinder - One Woman’s Holy Anger - Australia, 2021
The Woolf – Piano Crucifixion - Zurich, 2021
Westerly- One More Time - Australia, 2021
Epiphany – Jean Giono - 2021; Music for Desks: "Hushed" By Dian Parker — Epiphany Magazine (epiphanyzine.com) 2021
Lay It Out Magazine – Walking in another’s shoes, 2021
Memoir Monday – The Wind is not Random, 2021 - (9) One Week Until the Fall Memoir Monday Reading! Plus, 10 great new essays... (substack.com) - Art of Discretion, 2021 - (9) Eight new essays! Also...Save the date: Weds. March 23, for the AWP Edition of the Memoir Monday Reading. (substack.com) - Art and the Psyche, 2022 Hot Off the Presses, 11 New Personal Essays... (substack.com)- Funambulist, 2022 - A New Batch of Personal Essays, Plus Details For This Week's AWP Memoir Monday Reading (substack.com) - Unpredictable and Inevitable, 2022 - There's No Such Thing As Too Many Essays to Read (substack.com) - Color of Time, 2023 - Thirteen Mini-Memoirs...and More - Memoir Monday (substack.com) - Venetian Red and other Fates, 2023 - (9) Your Weekly Batch of Excellent Personal Essays... (substack.com) - (2) A Dozen Great Personal Narratives... - Memoir Land (substack.com) - The Poetry of Owning Books, 2024 - (3) A Dozen Excellent Personal Essays... - Memoir Land (substack.com) - Geography of a Body in Heat, 2024
Upstreet Magazine - Tinker’s Dog, 2020
Toasted Cheese - Scars, 2019
Northern New England Review - Everything has its Appetite, 2019
Anomaly - Slush Life, 2018
Woven Tale Press - Otre Vez, 2018 -Nominated for Pushcart Prize
FICTION
Medium - Art to Lie For - https://medium.com/defuncted/art-to-lie-for-by-dian-parker-e4b35c726ed5
Deep Wild - Our One and Only - 2022 (reprint) - Stones, 2020 – Nominated for Pushcart Prize - Our Pushcart Nominations! – Deep Wild Journal
Ginosko - Falling (flash fiction) - 2022
Event – Edward was once on a train - Canada, 2021
Café Lit– Finale - UK, 2021
Flash Fiction Magazine - How Do You Manage That Every Time? 2019
MEMOIR
BOOK REVIEWS
ART NEW ENGLAND, 2021 – 9TH STREET WOMEN
The White River Valley Herald, What a Way To Find a Husband! OUR HOUSE IN ARUSHA
WHITE RIVER HERALD
2011 - Present: All work on White River Herald
PERSONAL ESSAYS
INTERVIEWS, STORIES, REVIEWS
Mountainview Publishers, including the magazines; Woodstock, Best of Central Vermont, Trendwatch, Image, Best of Burlington, and Here in Hanover. 2013-Present
NATURE ESSAYS