Kathryn Kulpa
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
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'I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by...'
Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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MicroMonday #32
Mama, I’m Home by Sudha Balagopal I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by, until it gets too dark, until the s…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
'I drag my chair close to the window, eyes glued on our crooked street, heart catapulting every time a young man walks by...'
Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Wonderful breathless sentence by @sudhab.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
#fiction #microfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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"They could have made a family. Could have stayed together, could have kept a child." They would have been perfect for each other if...by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"They could have made a family. Could have stayed together, could have kept a child." They would have been perfect for each other if...by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
Thank you to Laura Black at the lovely @fictivedream.bsky.social for sharing my story! 🩵💙
"They could have made a family. Could have stayed together, could have kept a child." They would have been perfect for each other if...by Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/21/t...
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thank you to Laura Black at the lovely @fictivedream.bsky.social for sharing my story! 🩵💙
Read the judge’s report by Kelli Borges and the 2nd place story by Dawn Miller today.
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November News – Flash Fiction Contest Winners - The Sunlight Press
Find out our Flash Fiction Contest 2025 second and third place winners and learn what our judge, Kelli Borges, thinks about the winning stories.
www.thesunlightpress.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Read the judge’s report by Kelli Borges and the 2nd place story by Dawn Miller today.
www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/11/17/n...
www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/11/17/n...
So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So happy & grateful to be chosen for this contest! 🥰
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🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️
Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social for publishing the 6 sentences that is “Subway Was Real When You Worked There” 🥪🌽🚙
Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Read them and these other fabulous stories in Issue 37 here ⬇️
gooseberry-pie.com/issue-37/
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️
Unlocked: 14
Goals: 6
Goals: 6
honored to have been in nine of these mags, and books with two of them
The FLASH FICTION ranking includes 280 magazines - here is the top 20:
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Unlocked: 14
Goals: 6
Goals: 6
Flash fiction peeps! Favorite examples of lyrical flash, fractured/sectional flash, and breathless paragraphs? Hit me!
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Flash fiction peeps! Favorite examples of lyrical flash, fractured/sectional flash, and breathless paragraphs? Hit me!
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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.) 🪺
#submissions are now open! Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. $3 reading fee. More here: eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/34116...
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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.) 🪺
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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
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@susanschulman.bsky.social
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Bitter Over Sweet Is HERE, Zoom Launch, Ms. Magazine and an Interview by Dawn Tasaka Steffler — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
IT’S FINALLY OFFICIAL!! Bitter Over Sweet is out in the world! Thank you to everyone who have been posting their pics! It makes me so happy! It’s been a long and strange and stressful journey getting...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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
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@susanschulman.bsky.social
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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!
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The Suitcase of Lost Belongings ~ by Rosaleen Lynch
She can’t take her children in the suitcase. They would fit if she emptied it. They could top and tail in the folds of the quilt she made of their clothes, but there’s not even enough room for thei…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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!
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milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...
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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...
“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.”
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For Every Tower, A Princess by Kathryn Kulpa | A Review
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November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
“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!
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...
“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...
For Every Tower, A Princess by Kathryn Kulpa | A Review
www.claudineliterary.net
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thrilled for this review! Thank you, @claudineliterary.bsky.social!
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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
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
It’s November and the shadows fall long under broody skies.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It’s November and the shadows fall long under broody skies.
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alert! alert!
Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks
Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
www.bestmicrofiction.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
alert! alert!
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"Years later I watched a music video & saw a girl flop into the back seat of a car, legs dangling out the door & the whole thing came back, repeating in my head for hours like the return of a chronic infection, like a burning, corrosive rash." @ilanamiral.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m in New Zealand today! (No such luck, but there in spirit in the NZ journal FLASH FRONTIER.
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October 2025: FISH | NGĀ IKA | Flash Frontier
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November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’m in New Zealand today! (No such luck, but there in spirit in the NZ journal FLASH FRONTIER.
flashfrontier.com/october-2025...
flashfrontier.com/october-2025...
ICYMI: Tonight is the perfect night to dip in to these spooky tales & poems. 🎃💀
I have a flash fiction in this chillacious issue. ☠️
New issue available! Check it out.
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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ICYMI: Tonight is the perfect night to dip in to these spooky tales & poems. 🎃💀
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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.
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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.
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Gone Lawn : About
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October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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_...
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_...
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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.
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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!
Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social.
We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf!
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We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf!
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October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Looking forward to reading the review of my chapbook For Every Tower, a Princess in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!
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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
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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