About 800 years ago, Grant Faulkner wrote and asked me to send him a 100 word story, exactly one hundred words, for the journal he edits with Lynn Mundell, 100 Word Story. I promised I would get to it right away. Well, I finally delivered on my promise and my microfiction, “The Host” is up on
Together We Can Bury It, my collection of flash fiction published in 2012 by Molly Gaudry at The Lit Pub, is now available for the first time ever, here on Amazon. I’m very proud of these early stories and the book was well reviewed on Goodreads. Feels strange to promote it again so many years
Today is the last day of my final Fast Flash workshop until I reopen registrations for my Fall/Winter workshops later this summer. It has been quite a ride. In addition to my teaching for the Mile High MFA program at Regis University, and my wonderful week of teaching the Roving Writers in Victoria, BC in
Two things today: I have a set of five micros up at the wonderful Pidgeonholes journal today. They publish beautiful work and I’m happy to be included. You can read them here: Five Micros by Kathy Fish Also, Kenneth Fleming interviewed me for Tethered by Letters and asked specifically about my stories, “Collective Nouns for
I’m stunned and honored to learn that “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” has been chosen for Best American Nonerequired Reading, edited by Sheila Heti. I’ve always enjoyed this anthology, which reprints exceptional writing from a variety of genres. The volume will be published in October. Many thanks to Jellyfish Review.
Stay and write with us in the hauntingly beautiful Palazzo Forani in the village of Casperia, Italy in May, 2019! For more details click HERE!
I was so happy to see my flash, “One Purple Finch,” reprinted on the Smokelong Quarterly blog this morning. Coming as it did from a sweet and gentle space in my heart, this tiny flash is one of my own personal favorites. Tara Laskowski and Art Taylor asked to use the piece as a reading
I’m so honored that my piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” published by the wonderful Jellyfish Review, was chosen by Aimee Bender for Best Small Fictions 2018 (Braddock Avenue Books). Also thrilled that my story, “The Once Mighty Fergusons,” published by New World Writing, made the finalist list. Here is the complete list:
I’m very honored to have been chosen as a finalist in fiction for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net 2017 for my fractured story, “Terminals,” in Lost Balloon Magazine. Thank you to editor Chelsea Voulgares, who nominated the story and to the readers at Sundress Publications. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners!
No AWP for me this year. Next week I travel to this beautiful place where I’ve been invited to run a workshop for a group of talented women writers. I’m so excited. And I’ve packed my umbrella and rain boots. I think it’s going to be a great week!