Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social
Writer Debut collection: COLD TOAST (Dahlia Books) Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month' & 'Best Small Press Fiction of 2025' | SL for International Rubery Book Award Agent: Abi Fellows @ DHH Literary Agency www.kamwords.com
Thrilled to have two stories in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Read about a six inch cheerleader-- and another story about what the stars want. Thank you Camille Griep and team for giving these stories a lovely home. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/clau...
Claudia Monpere — Does It Have Pockets
Give Me a Push | What the Stars Want
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I am absolutely delighted and honoured to have a story featured in this line-up! Can't wait to see my words spoken by a real actor...
Liars' League@liarsleague.bsky.social · 2w agoThrilled (& chilled) to reveal the winning stories for our Tue 4 Aug event at @ThePhoenix_W1: #WomenAndGirls - #MurderAndMischief! It's 50 years since the death of #AgathaChristie so steal a £5 Earlybird ticket for espionage, adultery, theft & heaps of homicide! liarsleague.com/2026/07/21/w...
Poets (and scientists) love the moon, but how does the moon feel about it? Delighted to have my weird little micro on the @welkinpress.bsky.social shortlist! 🌒📸
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · last wk.Shortlisted in the History Prize, "First Photograph of the Moon — John William Draper, 1840" by @jmgatford.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Delighted to have my orgasm piece shortlisted in the Welkin Joy Genre! Many thanks to judge @chriscottom.bsky.social for choosing it, and huge appreciation to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the summertime delight that is The Welkin competition!
The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoShortlisted in the Joy Prize, "Whenever My Husband Reaches a Sexual Climax, he Shouts ‘Annabel!’" by @sagreene1.bsky.social www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...
Only 70 so far signed up for my London Writers Salon workshop tomorrow. No pressure then 🫠
Congratulations to my brilliant friend @kateaxeford.bsky.social - don't miss her latest stunning story! 🥳🔥🤠
Kate Axeford@kateaxeford.bsky.social · 2w agoThanks so much to Judge Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social for choosing my story. I am made up ! Thanks too to Ian Rushton for all his hard work making this fabulous competition happen 👏
@kazbarwrites.bsky.social reminds me I didn't post any pictures of the recent launch of my novella The Hyena's Daughter - it was at Foyles - with Anju Gaston, Neil and Damian from Weatherglass Books and ALI SMITH and it was FABULOUS!!!
Let’s go fly a kite! 🪁 Thrilled to have a new flash in the fabulous @fictivedream.bsky.social, which is celebrating 10 years of championing short and short-short stories. Laura has created such a wonderfully-curated journal, and I’m so proud to be featured. Enjoy! 💛 fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...
Kyle as Kite
by James Montgomery HE’S SWEPT AWAY SUDDENLY. After a one-hour car journey became four. After two emergency toilet stops for their three- and six-year-olds, plus one more to refuel with bags of gia…
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I loved this novelette by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social ... great to see it reviewed in @claudineliterary.bsky.social -such a great resource for writers researching indie publishers 😎
Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · last mo.Read our review of Patricia Q. Bidar’s Wild Plums! @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social “Bidar has created a marvel of a character in Maya. A deep thinker who reads people and her environment carefully.” www.claudineliterary.com/wildplums
And another fantastic flash by @kateaxeford.bsky.social ... killer lines, heart and humour 🥄🔥🔥 ⬇️
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Write-In: 'How To Be More Axolotl' by Kate Axeford #nffd2026
Congratulations @kateaxeford.bsky.social !! Such a brilliant story! 🔥🔥
Kate Axeford@kateaxeford.bsky.social · last mo.So made up to be on @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 LL for a story that made it into one of my absolute favourite flashy magazines @nffr.bsky.social Thank you to series editor @sudhab.bsky.social and team for all your hard work 🙏 🙏
Getting giddyingly close… 😬
Stanchion@stanchion.bsky.social · last mo.With @kiklodge.bsky.social's absurd stories & surreal illustrations by @jeromefage.bsky.social, you're gonna want to own The Bully in My Pillow. On sale now, this funny collection arrives August 11. ☆ Plesse support small presses and indie authors ☆ www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Really excited to make it into @fictivedream.bsky.social with this jazz-inspired piece, born in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. And a note to any disheartened writers - I have been subbing to this mag for 5 years. Keep going! You never know which story is going to do it so keep the faith 🙏🏽
Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social · last mo."That woman’s in front of me again. Her mouth moving in slow motion." My jumbling tumble of days, forgotten, remembered" by Cole Beauchamp @nomad-sw18.bsky.social #flashfiction #TenYears #readingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/06/26/m...
If you're in London, don't miss the brilliant Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social in convo with Ali Smith discussing her award-winning novella!
Jupiter Jones@jupiterjonz.bsky.social · last mo.www.foyles.co.uk/events/ali-s...
"Michaela engaged in a little dream that the bartender would lean over and hold her face in his rough hands. That James would appear as a silhouette in the doorway." THANK YOU, Fractured Literary team and Tommy Dean!! fracturedlit.com/in-dreams-yo...
In Dreams You’re Mine All of the Time | Fractured
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I loved reading for the FlashFlood again this year - now to catch up with all the stories that didn't land in my queue! Congratulations to everyone - some absolute beauties! 🔥🔥🔥
National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 2mo agoFlashFlood: 2026 FlashFlood: The Complete List #nffd2026
👀Novella-in-Flash Writers! I've been invited by London Writers Salon to deliver this w/shop. If you want to add your/a NiF to my Recommended Reading list drop title & publisher in the comments. A great way to promote your work to a new audience. community.londonwriterssalon.com/c/interviews...
✍️ WORKSHOP: Get Started w/ Novella-in-Flash w/ Kathryn Alderidge-Morris | LWS Community
How can a series of very short pieces gather enough force to become a single, cohesive book? The novella-in-flash is one of the most exciting and flexible forms in contemporary fiction. Built from co...
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gooseberry-pie.com/every-five-s... Written in a Meg Pokgrass workshop called ‘Messy Love’ - not sure there’s another kind?
Every Five Seconds, Goldfish Memories Being Famously Short, I Briefly Become Your Entire World - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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A joy to have a new flash in the brightest new litmag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social. 🩻 I’ve been wanting to write a list story for ages, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social has been the kindest editor to deal with. Send them something good when it next opens for subs! 💡 bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...
What Maisie Knows an X-Ray Can Reveal, by James Montgomery — The Bulb Region
What Maisie Knows an X-Ray Can Reveal — James Montgomery TODDLER BONES,...
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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Just finished the final proofread of my new collection, which includes this essay originally published in @literaryhub.bsky.social. If you haven't read it, consider this is your invitation into my work and what it's all about.
Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life
“How does it feel—emotionally—to be wrong?” Kathryn Schulz asks the audience at her 2011 TED Talk entitled “On Being Wrong.” I show the video to my first-year writing students every semester on the…
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I'll be in conversation with Annie Maconochie for the launch of her brilliant short story collection 'Diamond Life' at East Bristol Books next Wednesday 10 June, so why not join us for an evening of words and reading? Doors open at 6.30 Tix from Headfirst www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
Anna Maconochie: *Diamond Life* at East Bristol Books
The launch of Anna Maconochie's second short story collection: *Diamond Life*, published by Héloïse Press. The author will be in conversation with local writer Kathryn Aldridge-Morris. *Diamond Life*...
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