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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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Angela Joynes@angelajoynes.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

Ellipsis Zine@ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 6d 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 3w ago

"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 · last mo.

“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 · 3w ago

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 · 4w ago

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

If they're actually keeping brain dead Mitch McConnell hooked up to machines for political advantage, it's the most ghoulish thing I've seen from them yet. And that's saying a lot.

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

Mine is the time a notable American short story writer found my story so godawful he was practically spitting as he delivered his critique of it. It was definitely a flawed draft, but I was baffled by his over-the-top reaction to it. He was pretty genial with everyone else! 😅

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.