I’m really excited for this upcoming flash fiction retreat in Grand Lake! Join Nancy Stohlman and me this August 14th – 18th for High Altitude Inspiration: Four Days in the Clouds in Grand Lake, Colorado, now with special guest, Randall Brown! Randall will be teaching a special BONUS session at the retreat. Rise above your normal
For those of you who are attending the AWP conference in Portland later this month, I will be reading for Smokelong Quarterly with estimable writers Sherrie Flick, Nancy Au, and Michael Don at Ex Novo Brewing Co. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 28th. Christopher Allen is hosting the event. Here are the details.
Because our January “Writing Wild in Costa Rica” retreat was such a wonderful and inspiring experience, Nancy Stohlman and I are excited to announce that we’re returning in March, 2020! Get more information about “Writing Wild in Costa Rica, 2020” HERE. I hope you can join us! Pura Vida!
Abundant thanks to Angela Williams (who writes under the pseudonym, Susan Carey) for this lovely review on the Writers Abroad site of my Fast Flash Workshop, which she’d just recently participated in. Angela describes it as a “Turbo Boost Writing Course” (I love that!). Here is an excerpt: “Not only did I learn a great
Many thanks to Josh Denslow (author of the soon-to-be-released collection, Not Everyone is Special), for this fun interview at Smokelong Quarterly. Josh asked great questions! Here’s an excerpt: “Let’s shift gears and talk about one of my favorite subjects in writing: Humor. You write some truly powerful stories, but you’re also slyly funny as well.
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
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
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)
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