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

"It’s always a rainy night when she gets away. Black cars, headlights like dull stars." I really love how @writesofkathryn.bsky.social put this brilliant story together! 💙💙💙 ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

"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.

Over the moon to be included in this 🔥 mix! Thank you Matt and Bronwen! 💚🩵💙

It's official! I'll be curating an anthology around the theme of WATER for Wild Ink Publishing, coming 2027! Full submission theme and guidelines available on the website! I can't wait to see everyone's amazing work! #amwriting #writingcommunity

Make a little birdhouse around your neck! 🪺🧌

He’s gotta wear shades.

CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025 ISSUE Theme: "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd it come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like. Story/CNF/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21

Ian wants to wish you a happy #internationalcatday. 🌎🐈 But first, an important message from this paw.

Deer friend! 💚 🦌

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Start August with a leap! I’m leading a weeklong intensive flash writing workshop through Cleaver magazine. Daily prompts, personal feedback. For info, visit cleavermagazine.com/classes/.

🎼 Well, I’ve got two paws on the window and the others are perched on the cat tree! 🎶 🐾

Historical flash. Sometimes I write it. Other times I read it. Any suggestions for journals where I might find such flash? #flashfiction

Farewell to sweetest and softest girl Molly, lover of boxes and hidey-holes, hoarder of catnip bananas, and ruler of her feline kingdom, 2011-2025. 🌈💙

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation and sniffing the air. 🐶

Working on more insanely challenging (but fun) assignments for the August workshop!

Four days to go before we close subs. Some great twists on the theme of 10 so far. See what you can cook up this weekend and send it our way! Be bold 🌟 Be unique 😮 Give us your beautiful words 👌🏼 Up to 500 words Theme of 10 Closes 15 July midnight BST Sim subs ok

This is Clark. Clark used to be a neighborhood stray, until he rolled his way into my heart. 💙 Going on 10 years now! Cat distribution system at its best. 💕🐈‍⬛

New stories out in Flash Boulevard. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/k...

“I’ve always hated the Fourth of July.” Throwback story from the archives of Flash Boulevard, 2021. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/k...

My first publication in Matchbook! Also, a reminder that subs close today. 🩵💙🩵

Thank you to the editors at @trampset.bsky.social for publishing this story. It's from a @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness prompt where the only requirement was that people get naked... @patiencemackarness.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social trampset.org/the-things-s...

It’s contributor copy day! Thank you to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social editors and to the editors at @centaurlit.bsky.social & Dirtbag for nominating my stories! 💚💛🩷

To get you started with ideas for our theme of 10, we've gathered links to some previous #NFFR stories. Read #flashfiction with numbers or counting from @joelhans.com @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @christinamilletti.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/call-for-sub...

Just in time for the heat dome, my story of summer & monsters in @yourimpossiblevoice.com.

Double digits! Do you remember when you finally made it to 10 candles on the cake? Well, NFFR is 10 this month. To celebrate we're inviting submissions on the theme of 10 when we open for subs from 1-15 July. We welcome broad interpretations. Have fun. Surprise us!

Summer workshop starting SOON! 7 days, 7 flash fiction drafts. cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32756...

I’m so happy I won an advance reading copy of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE by @edenroyce.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read it (after Ian finishes, of course.)