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Kathy Fish

@kathyfish.bsky.social

Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com

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Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · 5h ago

These 200 words took 20 years to write—they tell the story of my daddy issues, childhood loneliness, an eating disorder born in a closet. Thanks to @bulbregion.bsky.social for giving my tender memories a home. And thanks to my awesome editor-mentor-friend @mattkendrick.bsky.social for his help!

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 6h ago

"[...] then I’m home slamming the front door, mom’s face a confused blur when I stomp upstairs yelling Dad forgot me, wiping tears as I crouch in the corner of my dark closet where I stash the cookies [...]" Don't miss Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) wonderful micro in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 3h ago

Hey friends, I saw submission guidelines that asked for name & email address on the first page and name on all subsequent pages, which seemed unusual. I normally only put my name on the file name. Interested to see what you all do...?

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 4h ago

Register by Monday (8/24) and get three 90 minute workshops for $125! “Kathy Fish worked her magic today! The magician waved her wand, and in 90 minutes, we had three new flash pieces, rough, unsteady on their newborn feet, but moving. Thank you!” ~Nina Schuyler

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 7h ago

My upcoming live (on Webex) 3-in-90 generative workshops are now open for registration! Register this week for the three workshop package & save $70! Each session, you will come away with three fresh drafts or story starts of surprising depth and beauty. www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut...

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 7h ago

My upcoming live (on Webex) 3-in-90 generative workshops are now open for registration! Register this week for the three workshop package & save $70! Each session, you will come away with three fresh drafts or story starts of surprising depth and beauty. www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90?ut...

3 in 90 Live Workshops | Art of Flash

Register for Kathy Fish's live generative workshops. 90-minute sessions focused on breaking through writing blocks and innovating in flash fiction.

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Liz Rosen@thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 7d ago

This dystopian meditation on motherhood and loss by @kathyfish.bsky.social in @merliterary.bsky.social is making me regard the weather outside my window more suspiciously. momeggreview.com/2020/06/13/k...

Kathy Fish - Muriel's Cyclone - MER - Mom Egg Review

Muriel’s Cyclone Kathy Fish   It begins with a snowman who catches Muriel’s eye. It begins with Muriel standing at the drawing room window of her tiny home. The winter cyclones, once rare, are now com...

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Angela Joynes@angelajoynes.bsky.social · 3w ago

My speculative feminist micro! Written in Kathy Fish’s flash extravaganza the ekphrastic prompt! @kathyfish.bsky.social

Ellipsis Zine@ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Detergentized' micro fiction from @angelajoynes.bsky.social I am the crone among us, old enough to remember the PRE world order before the male revolt abolished abortion rights and birth control, before rescinding our voting rights... Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/dete...

Meg Reid 🦦@megireid.bsky.social · 4w ago

Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 4w ago

Many thanks to editor Josh Russell for accepting my experimental, hybrid flash for the incredible new issue of Georgia State University's Five Points journal. To see my my piece facing the inimitable Stuart Dybek's story is just extra cool. Congratulations to all! I'm excited to read your work.

Image of Five Points literary journal open to show the top of Stuart Dybek's story, "A White Fire Escape," on the left and my piece, "A Red Paint Pagoda" on the right.
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 4w ago

Arrived home yesterday from the Flash Fiction Festival, my 8th in a row, at Trinity College in Bristol, UK. Love the pure joy on the faces in this photo (credit David Swann). I’m waaaay in the back with my arms raised. If you write flash, I highly recommend this annual weekend gathering! ❤️

Photo of the 100 or so attendees of the Flash Fiction Festival. They are seated in three rows, smiling, clapping, raising their hands.
Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · last mo.

"In order to get back to my kitchen, I must climb out one of the tall windows, down a rope ladder and into the neighbors’ living room" Wow - this is (as always!) quite a piece from @kathyfish.bsky.social - so brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric!

The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“We pass through each other in the rooms and on the staircases. […] I discover a room filled with beds and ornate furniture, scattered and illogical.” The amazing Kathy Fish (@kathyfish.bsky.social) returns to The Bulb Region with a kaleidoscopic, mazelike experience. 🔗 ↓

Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last mo.

Organizing bookshelves (again, ha). Print places I've published in print. There are some oldies here! Night Train, Keyhole, Cranky, Sleepingfish, Staccato, Wild Strawberries, Quick Fiction. I see familiar names in those T of Cs. Great litmags. I miss them. 💙

Journal covers L - R, top: f(r)iction, Night Train, Newfound Journal, Indiana Review, Keyhole, Heavy Feather Review, Keyhole again, bottom: Sleepingfish, Cranky, New South, Yemassee Review, Staccato, Best of the Web anthology, ELJ, Wild Strawberries, Split Lip, Staccato againBook & Journal covers L - R top: Past Ten anthology, Brink, Copper Nickel, Quick Fiction, Washington Square Review, Together We Can Bury It, The Norton Reader, Ploughshares, Short Form Creative Writing, Best Small Fictions, Smokelong Quarterly Ten Years, Quick Fiction again, Best Small Fictions again, bottom: A Peculiar Feeing of Restlessness, Quick Fiction again, Best Microfiction, Wild Life: Collected Works, New Micro, Flash Fiction America, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Critical Insights on Flash Fiction, Best Small Fictions again, Wild Life, Rift
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last mo.

A friend just reminded me that I’ll be teaching my three-hour workshop in England at the Flash Fiction Festival ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! I can’t wait to see everyone again! ❤️

Trinity College in Bristol, England. Beautiful brick facade amongst trees, green lawn in the foreground. Blue skies.