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
Delighted to see there's a new (and great) story by @kellyluce.bsky.social out in the world at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social !
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 4h ago"Eventually there will be nowhere left that isn’t full of the pieces of something else." 🔥 You don't want to miss @kellyluce.bsky.social's flash piece DRAWERS from our OCTOBER ISSUE.✨️ buff.ly/uVcZ0s0
Lord grant me the unmitigated confidence of a better-than-average young male writer.
To those who've signed up for today's workshop, see you in 15 minutes! Today, I'll share & discuss stories from Julia Alvarez, @kiklodge.bsky.social , Tobias Wolff, and @anniejowrites.bsky.social ! 💙
Hi friends, if you’re signed up for TOMORROW’S (10/17) 3-in-90 workshop, please locate the email from Webex you received when you signed up that provides the link for the session. Let me know if you can't find it and I will resend. See you tomorrow at 1:00 pm Eastern! Thanks! 💙
Hi friends, if you’re signed up for TOMORROW’S (10/17) 3-in-90 workshop, please locate the email from Webex you received when you signed up that provides the link for the session. Let me know if you can't find it and I will resend. See you tomorrow at 1:00 pm Eastern! Thanks! 💙
"The gray, which first appeared on Lance’s face, is seeping further into the house, draping the furniture, coating the walls, the decorations." @kathyfish.bsky.social never fails to surprise. I love this new story.
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last wk.New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...
Hey friends! My next 3-in-90 live online workshop is THIS Saturday, October 17th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time! There’s still time to sign up and join us! The sessions are lively & productive. Everyone receives lifetime access to the recording! www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90 💙
Hey friends! My next 3-in-90 live online workshop is THIS Saturday, October 17th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time! There’s still time to sign up and join us! The sessions are lively & productive. Everyone receives lifetime access to the recording! www.artofflashfiction.com/threein90 💙
Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos
I love my publisher! Thank you @vanwinkle.bsky.social and @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for all you do! 🙏💜🙏
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 6d agoIf ya missed Kathryn Silver-Hajo's launch party for SPINNING this past weekend the Cowboy Jamboree YouTube channel has got you. Hosted by the one and only Kathy Fish! Featuring Guest Readers: Claudia Monpere, Kathryn Kulpa, Patricia Bidar & more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkGU...
“Ben’s rubbing a dryer sheet over the Markus’s fur, and over his own face and forearms. There’s a certain way things feel, Ben says. It has to do with the barometric pressure. I feel my gases expanding.” @kathyfish.bsky.social | Journal of Compressed Creative Arts matterpress.com/journal/2026...
There’s Something a Little Wrong with Jean – Compressed
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READ @kathyfish.bsky.social in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts! matterpress.com/journal/2026...
There’s Something a Little Wrong with Jean – Compressed
matterpress.com
New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...
There’s Something a Little Wrong with Jean – Compressed
matterpress.com
"Lara remarks she saw Jean at the pharmacy last week. No time to chat, of course! She’s not like us, Kyle offers, tearing the mint leaves from their stems. Ben sighs. Maybe we’re not like her." Brilliance. Big love for this gem by @kathyfish.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last wk.New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...
"Her body turned into a telephone, an entire conversation." 🔥 Don't miss @kathyfish.bsky.social's new story ARCHAEOLOGY in the 10th anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! 🤩 buff.ly/DFORVRZ
"The gray, which first appeared on Lance’s face, is seeping further into the house, draping the furniture, coating the walls, the decorations." Stunning story by the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social. Incredibly imaginative, what is revealed.
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last wk.New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...
Yes, I do Kathy! Need to have a big think about which one… (or ones!)
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · last wk.Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos
“They think they might have to confront her about it today.” "𝘚𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘴 ..." "𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯." a box elder, massaging the gray, seeping “like fireflies,” “like sparklers,” like @kathyfish.bsky.social in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts matterpress.com/journal/2026...
There’s Something a Little Wrong with Jean – Compressed
matterpress.com
New story up today! At the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. I'd love for you to read, "There's Something a Little Wrong with Jean." ⚡ matterpress.com/journal/2026...
There’s Something a Little Wrong with Jean – Compressed
matterpress.com
Thank you @kathyfish.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Mikki Aronoff @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social and attendees for making my book launch such fun! 🎉 🥂 🥳 For a copy: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spinning-s... www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6SZ3FP
Spinning: Love, Family, and Other Strange Entanglements
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Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos
There's still time to submit to us at trampset, but that time is not unlimited. Once our Dec issue is full, we will take a short break for the holidays.
trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 2w agoOur Halloween-adjacent issue (Oct. 30) is full. Our last issue of the year will be Dec. 4, and we will close for submissions when this issue is full and then reopen in the new year. If you have some words for us, submit sooner than later www.trampset.org/submissions
This is going to ROCK! Look at that lineup! And @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social as the headliner! Come celebrate her book with us on October 10th! 💙
Kathryn Silver-Hajo@kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social · 3w agoOct. 10th Zoom launch of "Spinning: Love, Family and Other Strange Entanglements!" Host @kathyfish.bsky.social. Guest readers @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Mikki Aronoff, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social! 🎉 www.kathrynsilverhajo.com/so/d8OplZ7Px...
Update: One of the remaining spaces has now been taken! Let me know if you have questions. I'd love for you to join us in May for a Creative Sojourn intensive. Deepen your work in progress and/or generate exciting new writing! All food, wine, workshops, one-on-one consultations included. 💙
Kathy Fish@kathyfish.bsky.social · 2w agoHey friends, I’m offering two opportunities to write with me and a small cohort of other writers in southern France in May of next year! A couple of spots left in each session. See inside for details. 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/retreats/cre...
