Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Kara Kahnke

@karakahnke.bsky.social

290 followers 510 following 56 posts

I’m a writer with a passion for micro and flash fiction. Published in BULL, The Citron Review, Under the Gum Tree, Raw Lit, Micromance Magazine and other places. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominated.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · 10d

Here is my CNF piece about an experience I had with my disability in college. I’m grateful to BULL for publishing it.

mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Hands | MrBullBull

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · 10d

Here is my CNF piece about an experience I had with my disability in college. I’m grateful to BULL for publishing it.

mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Hands | MrBullBull

Reposted by Kara Kahnke

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 10d

Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

www.smokelong.com

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · 14d

It was fun, and I’m glad we finally got to meet in person. Thank you for inviting me!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · 17d

This is a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it, @the-big-quiet.bsky.social.

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sharing this piece of mine from @yalereview.bsky.social last spring so I can pin it. Also as a way of saying hi to the new community here.

Steve Edwards: "Yellow Band"

An autism diagnosis in adulthood changes the writer's relationship to his work and to himself.

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations, Sage!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you! ❤️

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks so much for sharing, Tiffany!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you so much, Ellen!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks so much, Ani! Thanks for the repost too!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations, Fiona!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is beautiful, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 8

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 14. Since I have a journalism degree, I couldn’t resist posting this one. “Be hungry, we’re told. Professor Michael’s paces like he’s caged. Chase down leads. Go deeper. . .”
“TK” by Sara Lippmann 2013 in Wigleaf.

wigleaf.com/201308TK.htm

Fiction by Sara Lippmann

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations, Ani!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 7

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 13 This piece sums up years of a relationship in one sentence, and also brings everything full circle. Amazing. “It’s Happened to Everyone” Bezalel Stern 2015 in Wigleaf.

wigleaf.com/201502everyo...

Stern: 'It's Happened to Everyone'

Fiction by Bezalel Stern

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 6

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 12 A beautiful and poetic ghost story. “There were ghosts in the woods that lived as birds do.” “There Go Birds” by Peter Markus 2020 in Wigleaf.

wigleaf.com/202004birds....

Markus: 'There Go Birds'

Fiction by Peter Markus

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 5

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 11 A beautiful fairytale with hope for a better world. “…and then it’s all just lightness, forever.”
“In This World, They’re Married” by Ashlynn Perez in Wigleaf 2024

wigleaf.com/202409world....

Perez: 'In This World, They're Married'

Fiction by Ashlynn Perez

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 4

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 10. A beautiful disability-focused piece. “Our daughter imagined how the blind read with the touch of a finger. She asked which words were written in the creases of trees’ bark.”
“Dusk” by Andrew Siegrist Wigleaf in 2024.

wigleaf.com/202401dusk.htm

Siegrist: 'Dusk'

Fiction by Andrew Siegrist

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 3

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge Day 9 The tension in this piece is heartbreaking. “God says happiness is complicated and bad for business.”
Uncertain Bodies by Kate Tooley in Wigleaf 2023.

wigleaf.com/202301bodies...

Tooley: 'Uncertain Bodies'

Fiction by Kate Tooley

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 2

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 8. Here’s some more quiet happiness. “We will lie in our bed in the dark gray dawn and listen to the birds sing and swear it is the first time we have heard them.”
“Tonight, We Are Awake” by Melissa Goode in Wigleaf in 2018.

wigleaf.com/201802tonigh...

Goode: 'Tonight, We Are Awake'

Fiction by Melissa Goode

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jul 1

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 7. There are so many beautiful lines in this. “Over the four months she had imagined language, it had gained shimmering spires and immense glass floors.”
“Noise” by Ellen Ellis in Wigleaf 2019.

wigleaf.com/201903noise....

Fiction by Ellen Ellis

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jun 30

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 6 This is an amazing way to explore desire. “I Did All the Asking” by Emily James from Wigleaf in 2019.

wigleaf.com/202301asking...

James: 'I Did All the Asking'

Fiction by Emily James

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jun 29

I agree!

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jun 29

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 5. I love this quiet moment of happiness in “Soap” from Katrina Denza from 2008 in Wigleaf.
wigleaf.com/200804soap.htm

Wigleaf fiction by Katrina Denza.

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jun 28

@smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge day 4. I love how strange and imaginative this one is. “Miracle Cake” by Ravi Mangla from Wigleaf in 2008.
wigleaf.com/200810cake.htm

Mangla: 'Miracle Cake'

Wigleaf fiction by Ravi Mangla.

Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social · Jun 28

It was great! Thanks so much!