Book Launch with Two Kathryns!

  Join me and my fellow Kathryn, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, as we celebrate the release of our flash fiction books! Date: Thursday, May 25 Time: 7 pm Place: Riffraff Bookstore/Bar/Cafe, 60 Valley St #107A, Providence, RI 02909 Upcoming Readings & Book … Continue reading

2021: By the Numbers

New Publications I was a slacker in 2021! Only 17 new stories published, compared to 20 in 2020. But I have three pieces that were accepted but not yet published, so that evens things out. I was happy to make … Continue reading

End of Year Writing Roundup

Publications in 2020 It felt like 2020 wasn’t a very good year for writing. Let’s face it: 2020 wasn’t a very good year for anything. As the year began, I was at work on a novella-in-flash made up of linked … Continue reading

The Monday Prompt, #3

Opposites Attract This week’s prompt: write a flash fiction (or nonfiction) story, or a poem, using pairs of opposite concepts, such as light/dark, sun/moon, sleep/wake, summer/winter, etc. You can brainstorm some specific opposites first, then use either the actual words … Continue reading

The Monday Prompt, #2

Rainy Days and Mondays How are all of you doing out there? Are you writing? I know I’ve been having a hard time focusing, tuning out the rest of the world to get into that state of creative flow. Living … Continue reading

The Monday Prompt, #1

These are interesting times we live in. As a pandemic virus spreads across the world, many of us are practicing social distancing and staying home. We’re doing the right thing, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be boring, anxiety-producing, and … Continue reading

October Stories

Fall is my favorite season! Here are four stories published in October. “Unleaving,” Fiction Southeast, October 2, 2019 Leaves were everywhere then, thick hillsides of trees be-leaved and unleaving, leaves that shook and shivered in October wind but still hung … Continue reading

Of Cows and Shadows

I’m happy to make a second appearance in The Cabinet of Heed, an Irish lit mag, with my flash “Jessie: A Pastoral.” This story was inspired by some family research on Ancestry–and yes, this is the same Jessie whose three … Continue reading

It Was Always June

I’ve heard poet friends say that they never have a moment free in April, because National Poetry Month means ALL the readings and conferences and workshops happen in that one month. June is sort of like that for Flash Fiction … Continue reading

Summer Workshop

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