Unlocked: 14 Goals: 6

Flash fiction peeps! Favorite examples of lyrical flash, fractured/sectional flash, and breathless paragraphs? Hit me!

I would love to read this in 2027! (and it may be the submission call that inspires me to write again, after a very long hiatus.) 🪺

weekly talk story about my book & zoom launch w/@deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social & @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @msmagazine.com review & my interview with @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social... @sfwp.bsky.social @susanschulman.bsky.social www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Thanks #MilkCandyReview for getting 'The Suitcase of Lost Belongings' out there! And thanks @corrineleith.bsky.social for the prompt and @fionamckay.bsky.social for the feedback to get there! milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

Chapbook review: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s “For Every Tower, a Princess” 📚🐈‍⬛📚 “The five flash fictions in Kathryn Kulpa’s For Every Tower, A Princess cast a dreamlike spell, luring you with folklore into magical realms you won’t want to leave.” www.claudineliterary.net/foreverytowe...

Thrilled for this review! Thank you, @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Begin the week with this triumphant micro by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in Issue 2. Read 'Surfer Girl' here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

It’s November and the shadows fall long under broody skies.

alert! alert!

My story is up! Thank you, @mrbullbull.bsky.social (It has potentially upsetting content)

I’m in New Zealand today! (No such luck, but there in spirit in the NZ journal FLASH FRONTIER. flashfrontier.com/october-2025...

ICYMI: Tonight is the perfect night to dip in to these spooky tales & poems. 🎃💀

Hate this sort of thing. Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Don’t stray from the path! Read the full story at rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-pres....

PSA for writers: In the last few weeks I have almost missed several acceptances (probably some rejections too, but who misses rejections?) because Gmail sorted them into ‘promotions.’ This happened with Submittable & Moksha, so if you use those platforms, be aware.

Looking forward to reading the review of my chapbook For Every Tower, a Princess in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

There’s a reason so many artists keeping saying they’d rather than die than use generative AI: it’s not hyperbole, it would be the death of creativity, and for most artists, that’s too unbearable to live with

I have a flash fiction in this chillacious issue. ☠️

Thrilled to have a dark fairy tale flash in the new “Bloody Bones” issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social! Thank you to editor John T. Leonard. Can’t wait to read the whole issue! 🖤🐦‍⬛☠️ rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-pres...

This is brilliant.

Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...

Oh, yes, this, SO much this. 💙

This pulverized me! 🫶🏻🐰

it's tha 1st of tha month, submissions are open thanks !

Today I needed breathing space, and the sound of a brook.

Shower skullduggery in mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas.... #flashfiction

Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my weird little story in BULL!

Not sure this is something to celebrate, but September has been my most rejection-y month of the year. #flashfiction #writing

"She can’t truly picture him now, except for his eyes, a warm chocolate brown and kind, so kind." Petey by Colleen Kearney Rich @ckrich.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/19/p...

“… and you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus …” @writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Micro read of the day.

Love this micro by @jhhwriter.bsky.social. 🐐

Tomorrow, 9/14/25, @ 7pm ET. Hope you can join us!

So lovely to be here. 💙https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/surfer-girl-by-kathryn-kulpa

So much to think about here.

Nothing but rejections this week. BUT … this is coming soon!

Like a ghost of summer.

On writing community and how to find one, in my latest newsletter. kathrynk.substack.com

"In the US there have been attempts to censor everything, including the weather, and I was looking at the website for NOAA, one of the federal agencies under attack, and came across a list of meteorological terms, and that gave me the shape for the final story." @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #NFFR

Thanks to the editors at @nffr.bsky.social for publishing my weather story, thanks to @louellalester.bsky.social for the cloud photo, and thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for sharing it! 💙

We will walk in the sand where it’s warm on our feet We will savor the summer And the summer is sweet in the end Like a friend But we know it has to go before it comes again. (A poem I wrote in high school and can still recite word for word, but don’t ask me what the Pythagorean theorem is.)

Just FYI - yes, the @welkinprize.bsky.social is returning for another year. 100 words pieces. Any genre, any style. Free to enter. Prizes to be won. New badges (probably). Get in early so you can make multiple entries if piece one doesn't land. Opens THREE MONTHS today!

@brettpribble.bsky.social delivers another Ghost Parachute! Work by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social, @jennystalter.bsky.social, @francinewitte.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @maeganpoland.bsky.social, and many others!. Art by @courtneyb77.bsky.social, too! ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

Read "What the Femme Fatale Would Do" written by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "If I were the femme fatale in a film noir I would transmute beauty into necromancy." tinyurl.com/4utmu675

It’s always so fun when a new issue comes out that you’re in & you get to see all the writers you know & love sharing this sparkly little space with you. 🌟

My latest newsletter (it’s free) talks about the ‘right’ way to be a writer (spoiler: there isn’t one). It’s at kathrynk.substack.com if you want to read or subscribe. Thanks!

Please take some time to read this poem, written by a doctor working in Gaza.