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Karen Crawford

@karenc.bsky.social

Exorcising demons one word at a time. 🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025 2x PushcartNom, BOTN Nom, Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 NYC → LA

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Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a few pieces out today in the amazing Flash Boulevard. Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social for giving these stories a wonderful home!! And a shoutout to @megpokrass.bsky.social and @mattkendrick.bsky.social in whose workshops some were born! ❤️🙏🏼 flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/k...

KAREN CRAWFORD: Safe Harbor

Flash Fiction by Karen Crawford SAFE HARBOR She hides teardrops. Under the barrier reef of her tongue, between the currents of her heart, inside the swell of her belly. You poke. You push. You prod…

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Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 4w ago

So thrilled to have a piece on the longlist. So many intriguing titles. Thank you for all you do @mattkendrick.bsky.social You are a rockstar!!!

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

DRUM ROLL!!!! Announcing the longlists for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026. Congratulations to the writers of these 50 wonderful pieces. Please feel free to celebrate wildly but don't reveal which piece is yours as judging is still ongoing! www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · last mo.

So incredibly honored to have made the longlist! Thank you @sudhab.bsky.social and the entire team for all your hard work! And thank you @brightflash1500.bsky.social for publishing "would You Like To Hear My Story." Huge Congrats to all the top 50 and longlisted pieces!

Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So thrilled to be in The Flood 🌊 ! Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for all you do! 🙏🏼 And shout out to @mattkendrick.bsky.social whose Lyrical writing workshop it was born. 💙 flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

'The Surprise Party' by Karen Crawford

Surprise! everyone screams when you walk through the door. And you are surprised! You haven’t seen these folks in years. Folks sharing stor...

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Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Honored to back in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social with a teeny💔. Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for giving it the perfect home! 🙏🏼 gooseberry-pie.com/what-you-can...

What You Can't Bury - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

by Karen Crawford A faded photograph on a sunny beach–the first time you met your brother, a paternity test confirming what your father didn’t want to know, you in your twenties, your brother almost eight, hiding behind a pair of Party City sunglasses. Years later, a song at a Cuban restaurant–siblings, cousins, all of us […]

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Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The waves here are silent. They are green. They are billowing fields that silently weep. Little boy lost never goes in those fields. His world is the house. The house is a harbour." I love this beautiful poetic piece by the super talented @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to have a new piece out in the world today about little boys and big little boys and ships in bottles and rising tides and lighthouses and hot air balloons and mint-chocolate ice cream (which is a thing I definitively can't have!) www.nervetowrite.com/post/little-...

Karen Crawford@karenc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thrilled to have a micro in the Dec Issue of @brightflash1500.bsky.social Many thanks to EIC Kristen Henderson for giving this story a home! 🥰https://brightflash1000.com/2025/12/04/would-you-like-to-hear-my-story/

Would You Like to Hear My Story?

By Karen Crawford It’s a short one, I promise. You see, yesterday I went to the bank because my account was running low. And this little girl standing in line behind me tugged on my coat slee…

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