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Kathy Fish
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Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
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jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Get my chapbook THE MISSING GIRL at 40% off! This month only, ALL Black Lawrence Press titles are 40% off with the code BACKTOSCHOOL40 at checkout.
The full catalogue: blacklawrencepress.com/books/
The Missiing Girl: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-mi...
September 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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melostrom.bsky.social
Check out @kathyfish.bsky.social’s interesting and helpful post on exposition! ✍️💙
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 3d
When you return from a trip and think Sunday is Monday, ha…anyway, please enjoy my September newsletter, free and widely shareable, on the tricky business of “telling” in flash fiction. artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/tell-me-so...
Tell Me Something Good: The Case for Exposition
Changing the Letter, Joseph Edward Southall, 1908 (photo) Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash
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September 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
Such an evocative, layered poem here. Another beauty by @melostrom.bsky.social
September 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
Off to beautiful Grand Lake, Colorado to lead workshops at what has become an annual retreat there. There's something about that homey, rustic, serene space that brings out really deep writing for everyone involved. Can't wait. 💙
A view of Grand Lake, Colorado. Pine trees in the foreground, lake in the distance. A blue sky with some clouds, mountains in the distance.
September 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
"There are found girls everywhere. They dress just so and grip their phones the way Jasmine’s grandma holds her rosary beads. Influencers teach them how to stay found." Fantastic new story by @melostrom.bsky.social in @necessaryfiction.com !
melostrom.bsky.social Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 7d
Delighted to have a flash in the wonderful @necessaryfiction.com. A special thanks to fiction editor Lacey Dunham.❤️
September 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
When you return from a trip and think Sunday is Monday, ha…anyway, please enjoy my September newsletter, free and widely shareable, on the tricky business of “telling” in flash fiction. artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/tell-me-so...
Tell Me Something Good: The Case for Exposition
Changing the Letter, Joseph Edward Southall, 1908 (photo) Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash
artofflashfiction.substack.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
Fantastic new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social with an amazing lineup of writers! Congratulations to all!
lit-namjooning.bsky.social Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 4d
It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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September 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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avitusbcarle.bsky.social
““When things started to get serious with us, the guy bought me a toe ring, a cheap one, from the county fair. I knew it was cheap because in my hand it had no heft.”

@kathyfish.bsky.social | The Menu

www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish?f...
September 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
This is fantastic, @shelleyr-j.bsky.social "I went with the simplest of all of the things I wanted to say." Voice and weirdness are my favorite things. Kudos to @therumpus.net for publishing this and congratulations to you!
shelleyr-j.bsky.social Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social · 4d
Surprised but pleased that @therumpus.net have published my story A Seafarer's Trifle. The voice and some of the weirdness was achieved when I took a flat, abandoned draft of it to one of @kathyfish.bsky.social's workshops. I'll say it again, Kathy Fish is magic! 🪄🧙 😍

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A Seafarer’s Trifle - The Rumpus
The sticky traps had remained empty except for the one in the alcove of the spare room. There I’d found the stricken body of my former invertebrate friend, prostrate in a layer of residual gloop. I’d ...
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September 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
This gorgeous piece made me cry. 'In the lullaby of this lonely New Zealand night, I heard the lap of the ghost ship’s oars and the major-chord music in the moorings off the coastal scrub." Read @pdforan.bsky.social 's piece in what looks like a phenomenal new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💔
pdforan.bsky.social Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 4d
I lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
This New Zealand by Pat Foran
I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...
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September 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
I'm determined to get the hang of this Water Pic...
Galo Frito: Balde de Água Splash
Alt: GIF of a woman being splashed with a large amount of water.
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September 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
Wow! Love both of these, @kossworks.bsky.social "It’s a Catholic sort of thing, you know, how friends are behind
the curtain of the confession booth as you say nothing
and nothing and nothing, and the silence sounds like troubadours
as their minds race like charred swallows to fill in the spaces."
kossworks.bsky.social Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 9d
#CW If you missed it, I have poems in the latest Diode (and artwork also). Thank you @diodeeditions.bsky.social for giving this and my other work a home! Thank you, @kathyfish.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the wonderful workshops that formed this piece. diodepoetry.com/koss-8/
September 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Shouting out a micro for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨ Contributor @kathyfish.bsky.social's micro “No Heft” is in the debut issue of Durty Beanz 🙌 You'll get a kick out of this: buff.ly/TtQcg1q
Black and white photo of a chunky black boot.
September 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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claudiamonpere.bsky.social
"The thing was gold, but it was no heavier than the pull tab on a can of beer. I could have bent it with my mind." Love his micro. And what a last line! @kathyfish.bsky.social
www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
DURTY BEANZ
www.durtybeanz.com
August 31, 2026 at 8:25 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
Remarkable depth and layers to this tiny story, and a gut punch of an ending. Just amazing writing here, from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Whoosh.
September 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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jjlofflin.bsky.social
“This guy though. He was kind of a fool. He was always remarking about my feet.”

New fantastic work from @kathyfish.bsky.social
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
kathyfish.bsky.social
I'm honored to see my story, "Dimensions," published in @bulbregion.bsky.social on this fine shortlist. Many thanks, @turnandwork.com and @kdiannerule.bsky.social 💙
turnandwork.com Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 12d
The Shortlist for Sept 4:
@kdiannerule.bsky.social shares 6 stories.
Theme: "Doomscroll, but make it art."

Fiction from:
Kyla Phoenix
Rebecca Klassen
Sarah Bess Jaffe
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social and
Charlie Beckerman @chozzles.bsky.social

(...cont'd)
The Shortlist for September 3 - Turn and Work
Fiction from Kyla Phoenix, Rebecca Klassen, Sarah Bess Jaffe, Kathy Fish, Karen Crawford, Charlie Beckerman
www.turnandwork.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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sarahillswrites.bsky.social
"I don't want to make this all about feet, but it kind of is."
and
"I could have bent it with my mind."

Brilliant new story from @kathyfish.bsky.social. I love everything about it — the weirdness, the humor, the fact that I can hear the whole thing in her inimitable voice. Perfection!
❤️❤️❤️
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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philippabowe.bsky.social
Another corker by @kathyfish.bsky.social - I'm going to call it deadpan weird. And looks like a great new journal. Congrats Kathy! 😍
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 2, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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mattkendrick.bsky.social
Whenever it starts raining these days, I think of "Praise Rain" by @kathyfish.bsky.social, mainly because of the title, but also because this is such a miraculously brilliant piece of flash:

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“Praise Rain” by Kathy Fish - The Masters Review
The fallen and the falling were rain. The haunted and the haunting, rain. Tears were rain but they were clichés, unworthy of rain. All, for centuries, thirsty for rain. Kings and queens and emperors, ...
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September 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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melostrom.bsky.social
“But I wore it for him. It just made him so damn happy…”

Oh, I love this sparkly gem by @kathyfish.bsky.social! 🔥
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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September 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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"The thing was gold, but it was no heavier than the pull tab on a can of beer. I could have bent it with my mind." This one's so funny & witty! @kathyfish.bsky.social in @durtybeanz.bsky.social.
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
kathyfish.bsky.social
#RIP Wendell Berry 💔
Image of Wendell Berry's poem, "The Peace of Wild Things": When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
September 1, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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tcboudreau.bsky.social
"I don't want to make this all about feet, but it kind of is."
No one does it like @kathyfish.bsky.social
kathyfish.bsky.social Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 17d
Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish
Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."
September 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM