My new hybrid work, “See How They Run,” is featured in the debut print issue of Mile High MFA graduate-run journal, Inverted Syntax (@invertedsyntax ). See this interview about the piece and flash fiction in general on their website: Intent Versus Reception: Flash Fiction Master, Kathy Fish On the Hybridity of “See How They Run” I’m proud to
It’s okay. You can take a break. You can lift your eyes from the screen. You can breathe. You are allowed to absorb less information. You are allowed to delay judgment or better, make no judgments at all. It’s okay for awhile to go silent. The universe will manage without your voice. The earth will
Huge thanks to Jude Higgins and team for inviting me to teach, read, and panel at the 3rd annual Flash Fiction Festival at Trinity College in Bristol, England, taking place June 28th-30th. This is a brilliant undertaking by those behind the renowned Bath Flash Fiction Award and includes flash fiction teachers from all over the
Huge thanks to Tyler Barton for his excellent, insightful questions and to Split Lip Magazine (one of my all-time favorites) for running the interview in their new, superb issue! Here is an excerpt: “In 2012, before I knew I wanted to pursue writing seriously, I came across Kathy Fish’s work online and quickly purchased her
My new flash fiction collection, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018 is featured on David Abrams’ Quivering Pen Blog today as part of his Friday Freebie feature! Info on how to enter to win a FREE copy is HERE. Double your chances of winning by linking The Quivering Pen to your Facebook page or Twitter!
Dan Crawley reviews my new collection at Soft Cartel. Here is an excerpt: “Study Fish’s magnificent word choices, her unique descriptions of us like we’ve never been described, learn her distinctive translations of love and struggle and togetherness and separations. Learn that she has written the new stories of our time, any time, in a fresh, original
I’m so excited to announce that my fifth collection of flash fiction has released and is available now directly from Matter Press! From a review by Kristin M. Ploetz at JMWW: “The dozens of literary journals that published many of these stories the first time (Jellyfish Review, Smokelong Quarterly, FRiGG, Wigleaf, Hobart, Yemassee Journal, and Guernica, just to name a few)
Many thanks to Kristen M. Ploetz at JMWW for this lovely review of my forthcoming flash fiction collection, WILD LIFE: COLLECTED WORKS. I’m so honored and grateful. Here is an excerpt: “As this vast collection of 109 stories shows, Fish is a tireless flash fiction maven and master. What can you say about a writer
I’ve got a new story up at Wigleaf today. A friend described it as “odd, quiet, and sad” which sounds about right. There’s also an odd postcard and a brief interview up on the site. Wigleaf is celebrating its 10th year as a brilliant venue for flash fiction and the publisher of the yearly Wigleaf
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with the lovely and talented Cathy Ulrich at Pidgeonholes. She asked some great questions about my series of Five Micros published there a few months ago. Here is an excerpt of the interview: “ULRICH: What I love about these interconnected pieces is how much history they hold, how expansive they