ICYMI: A new craft piece and writing prompt I recently posted on the Flash Fiction Retreats blog, “The Power of Juxtaposition & Creative Alchemy: A Microfiction Prompt” Also! As we find ourselves in troubling, worrisome, uncertain times, Nancy Stohlman and I want to help you continue to create art. We will be hosting a FREE
Many thanks to Andrea Rinard for her incisive review of my most recent collection. Here is an excerpt: “Whether she’s dropping her readers into the dark pockets of lives overlooked or underestimated, or acting as voyeur, eavesdropping and speculating on what she sees and hears, Fish shows an understanding of humanity and transforms the inexplicable
[EDIT: This workshop sold out quickly, but spaces remain in Nuala O’Connor’s pre-festival workshop. Thanks to all who signed up! See you in June.] I will be returning in June for the amazing Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol, England and once again, am teaching a 3 hour pre-festival workshop! Registrations for this are now open
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and your new year is off to a great start. I haven’t updated this blog in awhile so here goes… The end of 2019 had me really pondering a number of things: I had been, in the last months of the year, suffering a number of health
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
Many thanks to lovely Katherine Tweedle, co-editor of Barren Magazine, for interviewing me and asking such great questions. I really enjoyed our chat! Here is an excerpt: KT: First things first, Kathy. You are widely considered a master of flash. What is it particularly about flash fiction that influences you to set most of your
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
Many thanks to Cheryl Pappas for this very thoughtful review of Wild Life: Collected Works published in Colorado Review. Pappas dedicated significant space to giving her thoughts on my piece “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” which is being shared again in response to the most recent mass shootings in Gilroy, CA, El Paso,