I’ve just been told my recently launched Skillshare class, “Descriptive Writing: Crafting Vivid, Immersive Scenes” has been chosen as a Staff Pick! I’m so excited and hugely grateful to the Skillshare team, led by Daniel Halper, for all their help in creating the class and filming it in NYC back in September. I was so
So 2019 has been an incredibly busy year for me. I taught several Fast Flash workshops, (I’m in the midst of teaching a Master Class as we speak), I ran some awesome writing retreats with my friend and business partner, Nancy Stohlman (Costa Rica! Italy! Grand Lake!), taught at the wonderful Flash Fiction Festival in
Yesterday, I found out that I’d been awarded a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship for 2020. I still can’t quite believe it. This goes under the heading of Things I Never Dreamed Would Happen to Me. The foundation awards only up to 30 of these each year to a variety of artists. This 25-day residency outside of
Yesterday, I emailed the announcement of my Fall schedule of workshops to those on my mailing list. I’m really excited about the new classes I’m offering! I’m also offering two Fast Flash workshops ONLY to those who’ve not been able to get in yet. You will only have received this if you’ve signed up for
July is nearly over and my last Fast Flash class of the summer concludes August 2nd. I’m already feeling the end of summer approaching and I’ve begun to look at my schedule for the Fall. There remains a high demand for my workshops and for that I’m very grateful. I’ll soon be sending out an
Nancy Stohlman and I are very excited to be returning to beautiful Peace Retreat in Costa Rica this March for another flash fiction retreat. Registrations are now open and spaces are limited, so I hope if you’ve been thinking of joining us for one of our well-regarded inspirational and motivational writing retreats you will make
This morning as I pack for my flight to London, and onward to Bristol for this weekend’s Flash Fiction Festival at Trinity College, I feel a familiar mixture of excitement and nervousness. I have a pretty busy teaching load for the weekend. I am teaching a three-hour pre-festival session on Friday afternoon: “Embracing Your Inner
Many thanks to Joe Walters at Independent Book Review for this kind review of WILD LIFE: COLLECTED WORKS. Here is an excerpt: “Whether it’s a story about a gritty family managing to function or about a young woman growing horns, Wild Life illustrates just how meaningful very short fiction can be. We’ve got surface-level stories here,
I’ve got a new piece up on the Flash Fiction Retreats blog I’d love for you to read: Today you can’t talk about Love…
I’m so honored that my piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” is featured today on the British podcast, “A Poem a Week” run by Lizzie Turner. Many thanks to poet Rishi Dastidar, for reading it so beautifully: https://soundcloud.com/apoemaweek/ep60-collective-nouns-for-humans-in-the-wild-by-kathy-fish-read-by-rishi-dastidar Lots more news: I was also honored that amazing writer Mary Miller chose my flash,