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Kathryn Rw Reese
@kathrynreese.bsky.social
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Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Kelp Journal, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks, Flash Flood & soon Pithead Chapel. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway
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Hello. Please meet our latest issue, Imprint. It’s unruly but good at heart. It has geese and god and Brian Wilson, yin-yang rats, crazy blue, absentia, a screaming need to yell ‘RUN!’, cyanide rum, praying mantis, plural, a swallowed mirror, island breeze…
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Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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“… and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice one, because I wasn’t nice and neither was he. The sex was at-the-beach-and-in-the-McDonald’s-bathroom-and-behind-the-bleachers fun.”

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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The Guy I Dumped In The Iowa Cornfields On The Way To His Grandparents’ House - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Amr Taha™ on Unsplash by Melissa Llanes Brownlee  The guy I dumped in the Iowa cornfields became my boyfriend in my senior year of high school and I let him steal me from his friend, the nice...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
kathrynreese.bsky.social
Come join the party! 🎈 Bring your own cake…we’d bake, but haven’t figured out how to teleport six layers of pastry, cream and cinnamon sugar without it melting & rendering our prototype transporter inoperable….
nomad-sw18.bsky.social Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 1d
It's a party 🥳 Join @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social & me at the launch of the amazing MOTHER KARMA.

All welcome-
Sat 13 Dec 8pm GMT / 3pm EST
Sun 14 Dec 7am AEST

Register below to attend or for the recording:
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December 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Love this…and of course he does!
litsadremousis.bsky.social Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 1d
My new micro fiction story "Oedipus Sings Smooth Jazz" just came out in Temple in a City lit mag @templeinacity.bsky.social.

Occasionally, a girl must write about an ex. Or more often than that--your mileage may vary.

Enjoy!😘

#BookSky #WriterSky #FictionSky

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Temple in a City literary journal
Flash fiction Oedipus Sings Smooth Jazz by author Litsa Dremousis. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It's a party 🥳 Join @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social & me at the launch of the amazing MOTHER KARMA.

All welcome-
Sat 13 Dec 8pm GMT / 3pm EST
Sun 14 Dec 7am AEST

Register below to attend or for the recording:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The paywall for this poem has been taken down so read & share widely. Not because it’s my poem, but because these are my beaches.
kathrynreese.bsky.social Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · Sep 17
I wrote an Elegy for the Southern Beaches. It’s in the new issue of The Suburban Review.

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(Sorry, paywalled. If you’re in the US/UK exchange rates are prob in your favour and this issue is Worth It.)

If you’re outside SA, this poem may need some explanation.
The Suburban Review • #39: CLIMATE
What’s the forecast? The Suburban Review is heating up for issue #39: CLIMATE.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Writing award season is bonkers because the odds of being published at all is so small, with rejection rates often between 90-99.8%. True madness. Writers are amazing, willingly signing up to be told no, a lot. Doing great things against the odds. And the writing community is so great. 2/3
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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FIRST PICTURE OF MY BOOK IN THE WILD!!!! So apt that it’s from my writing mum @amymarques.bsky.social!
Link to buy: jakethemag.com/books/

Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 3pm EST, all welcome! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Picture of my chapbook “Mother Karma a novella-in-flash”. Book is on a blue surface with a cream crochet throw next to it. Book is yellow with a line drawing of an Indian mother cuddling a baby.
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Perfect for a weekend breakfast, too…💛
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This story captures a place I’ve been so much…waiting…
epistemiclit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 7: Integrity now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 3d
Issue 7: #Integrity Creative Nonfiction - a second piece this issue from Rick Kempa #CNF

I Have Loaned Eric Two Hundred Dollars

“Worse by far than any of this is the fear that he does not value what I hold most dear. Something is being taken from me that I cannot replace.”
I HAVE LOANED ERIC TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS -
I have loaned Eric two hundred dollars. I never loan students money—this is my rule—and yet, last evening when he called me, panicky (having just been bailed
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December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is a very cool call from a very very cool lit mag. You should definitely go make a thing!
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 3d
Issue 8 subs are OPEN!

But what are we looking for?

We want you to recycle, re-conceptualize, & re-imagine the works that we have available in our issue archive!

Guidelines: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP

#writingprompts #writincommunity #artistcommunity #collage #indielit
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Did you miss it? Look! The cold moon is in your sky! Featuring new works by 20 brilliant souls, and artwork by Andrea Damic, read and read!

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Dormant, by Andrea Damic, December 2025 issue of Gone Lawn (#62), a terrific fig tree.
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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templeinacity.bsky.social
Fun, wild Dada poem. Roof.
@kawalker.bsky.social
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Temple in a City journal
Roof Manifesto as read atop 4402 Zurich St E on July 14 2026 by Karen Walker, poem, published in Temple in a City journal.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
kathrynreese.bsky.social
I am working night shift and the staff room is prepared with NO COFFEE AT ALL.
Yes I have my own supply. But…
How…
How do they expect us to keep going like this???
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

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THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
Read The Urge!

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the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 10d
🖤SATURDAY #Giveaway for e(i7🖤

FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/Z8rgDrq

Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
kathrynreese.bsky.social
I’ve been having so much fun at these ekphrastic workshops!
stillsquirrel.bsky.social Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · 10d
It’s that time of year when I choose an artist whose work could, in some tangential way, be considered 'Yuletidey'. Expect something shiny and wildly colourful, deeply psychological and at times, totally immersive.
#ekphrastic #writingworkshop
Book for Dec 15 here - tinyurl.com/mvfy3ncb
Photo of a pink typewriter on a red background. Green paint is dripping from the typewriter paper on which are the words Art & Flash. Other text - Monthly ekphrastic writing workshops An hour of art appreciation and writing time with Anika Carpenter NEXT SESSION: Monday, December 15th 11 am or 8 pm BST www.anikacarpenter.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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…can’t wait!
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 11d
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!

Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/

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Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
kathrynreese.bsky.social
I love this so much! Perpetual Joy!
templeinacity.bsky.social Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 9d
Want to be part of this issue? You can. Subs permanently open to make this popup micro issue an ongoing and growing apothecary of joy. You’re welcome to contribute to or just borrow and browse.
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JOY, Temple in a City special pop-up edition
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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@pleomorphic2.bsky.social’s playlists are 🔥. I have driven many hours to them.

But her writing is 🔥🔥🔥 so get that book!
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 9d
Oh hello hi. I am giving birth to a novella baby Mother Karma TOMORROW. It’s like a planned Caesar, which makes @publishedbyjake.bsky.social the obstetrician (😵‍💫). While you WAIT EAGERLY, here is a PLAYLIST!! open.spotify.com/playlist/1IC...
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Oh hello hi. I am giving birth to a novella baby Mother Karma TOMORROW. It’s like a planned Caesar, which makes @publishedbyjake.bsky.social the obstetrician (😵‍💫). While you WAIT EAGERLY, here is a PLAYLIST!! open.spotify.com/playlist/1IC...
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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epistemiclit.bsky.social
Flash sale on our hard copy anthology of Issues 1-4 — it’s a gorgeous (fat!) volume! Don’t miss it!

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FLASH SALE $19.99 FULL COLOR $14.99 BLACK AND WHITE Epistemic Literary Magazine volume one, issues 1-4 Image of the cover of the hard copy volume
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today!
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Suuuper excited for this! Both the 🔥🔥🔥 book and the launch!
pleomorphic2.bsky.social Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 11d
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!

Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!

Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM