Kim Steutermann Rogers
@kimsrogers.bsky.social
Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
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BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social made @msmagazine.com's list of November 2025 Reads! buff.ly/JmWs33l
Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
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Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53
@susanschulman.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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@jenwithwords.bsky.social Jenny, thanks so much for sharing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@jenwithwords.bsky.social Jenny, thanks so much for sharing.
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Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured
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October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Please enjoy this interview w Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social about her amazing new collection, Bitter Over Sweet, 2023 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. LINKS to her book and to her AMAZING launch on Nov 7 w Deesha Philyaw & Avitus Carle are in the interview.
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First off, I just have to say, I love the Bath Flash Fiction Award! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for seeing and appreciating my cranky, zero-fucks-given Menopausal Woman character. She's a real hoot!
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
First off, I just have to say, I love the Bath Flash Fiction Award! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for seeing and appreciating my cranky, zero-fucks-given Menopausal Woman character. She's a real hoot!
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As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone...
Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??
Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??
Read "Sex In Public: A Triptych" written by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and illustrated by @courtneyb77.bsky.social.
"She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed."
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"She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed."
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Sex In Public: A Triptych — Ghost Parachute
Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone...
Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??
Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??
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And now you can get the ebook as well. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social for bringing us together in this beautiful anthology which became a home for my first micro chapbook (Preparing to be wrecked)
elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
Grieving Hope | ELJ Editions
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And now you can get the ebook as well. Thanks @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social for bringing us together in this beautiful anthology which became a home for my first micro chapbook (Preparing to be wrecked)
elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Thanks @charhamrick.bsky.social for the engaging questions. And I also did learn a lot from your writings @charhamrick.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie @emergejournal.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
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THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH RONITA CHATTOPADHYAY – Reckon Review
The eight pieces in Ronita’s collection explore feelings of grief and confusion as a young girl at the death of a dear friend, her first loss, and how the experience might influence future losses.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thanks @charhamrick.bsky.social for the engaging questions. And I also did learn a lot from your writings @charhamrick.bsky.social @kimsrogers.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie @emergejournal.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
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I’m happy to say my first poem ever is in the Writers Resist Fall 2025 issue. Thanks to @kbgressitt.bsky.social and the entire WR staff for making the biggest wish of teenage-me-poet come true. Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social where this story (and pretty much every story of mine) was drafted.
They Tell Us – Writers Resist
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September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m happy to say my first poem ever is in the Writers Resist Fall 2025 issue. Thanks to @kbgressitt.bsky.social and the entire WR staff for making the biggest wish of teenage-me-poet come true. Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social where this story (and pretty much every story of mine) was drafted.
If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump.
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Conversations on Grieving Hope - Diane Gottlieb
Hi all! I am so very excited to bring to you this month not one interview but five!! Earlier this year, ELJ Editions published a GORGEOUS volume of five micro-chapbooks (for those not ensconced in the...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you ever have an opportunity to work with editor @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, jump.
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
Here are five interviews with the five of us included in GRIEVING HOPE, a unique volume of five chapbooks.
dianegottlieb.com/conversation...
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weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday...
www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
Online Pop-Up For Blood Work and Keep Your Eyes Peeled For The FLASH 405 Winners — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
I don’t know how everyone is doing out there but I hope you are okay and giving yourself space. Hugs. I wanted to let you know that I was invited to be a part of Bamboo Ridge’s Pop-Up Reading to cele...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday...
www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
Open ‘em. Break ‘em down. Maybe even walk through a door or two into your next story!
Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
Open all the doors.
Wisdom from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social via Vancouver Flash Fiction! #writinglife #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Wisdom from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social via Vancouver Flash Fiction! #writinglife #flashfiction #writingcommunity
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Open ‘em. Break ‘em down. Maybe even walk through a door or two into your next story!
Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
Nice tip @dawnsteffler.bsky.social!
I have a new micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Thank you Diana Hardy for including me in your inaugural issue!!
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September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@bradymicheller.bsky.social put a lot of editorial love for these stories in the latest House of Arcanum! Check out "Every Day is Halloween" for Mandy's story.
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Every Day is Halloween... — House of Arcanum
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September 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension….”
New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.
New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.
Thrilled to have a story in the September issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ❤️Thank you @kimmagowan.bsky.social #flash #flashfiction #flashpack #shortstory #flashlit #writing #writer #litmag
Our September issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/v...
Words:
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
CHARLES GROSEL
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
@gsmithgoodin.bsky.social
ALLISON ZHANG
E. FERRELL
CHRISTOPHER NOTARNICOLA
Cover art:
AL KRATZ
Words:
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@dawnwriter.bsky.social
CHARLES GROSEL
@patrickobrienstrickland.com
@gsmithgoodin.bsky.social
ALLISON ZHANG
E. FERRELL
CHRISTOPHER NOTARNICOLA
Cover art:
AL KRATZ
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“Later, after the officer fishes the red hat out of the lake—adrift like flotsam on surface tension….”
New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.
New story by @dawnwriter.bsky.social.
Huge thank you to Sundog Lit and Eric Rasmussen for really seeing this story and loving it as much as I do. It was a complete pleasure working with Eric and I totally love this lit mag! They are awesome!
Dawn Tasaka Steffler
The Menopausal Woman Can’t Understand Why Anyone Would Want to Be a Woman If They Didn’t Have To Dawn Tasaka Steffler The Menopausal Woman startles from a dream: a person in drag is tossed from a c…
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September 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Looking forward to this @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Looking forward to this @marioaliberto3.bsky.social!
Really admire how the definitions add depth to this wonderful story by @charhamrick.bsky.social.
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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Fiction: Charlotte Hamrick: All the Little Organisms
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August 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Really admire how the definitions add depth to this wonderful story by @charhamrick.bsky.social.
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Hamri...
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/Hamri...
Yes! Yes! Yes!
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social and Tampa are a good match.
As is your Dad’s poet hat and YOU!
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social and Tampa are a good match.
As is your Dad’s poet hat and YOU!
August 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes! Yes! Yes!
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social and Tampa are a good match.
As is your Dad’s poet hat and YOU!
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social and Tampa are a good match.
As is your Dad’s poet hat and YOU!
New story with the bad ass @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social. A modern take on the play Women of Trachis, where Dejanira, fearing Hercules's infidelity, is tricked by the dying centaur Nessus into believing his blood is a love potion.
Flash fiction "A Centaur's Blood Is Always Poison" by Mario Aliberto III
“The preposterous size of his legs, pumping up and down, striated where the muscles met and sweat ran in rivulets, had dominated her fantasies the last few weeks.”
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“The preposterous size of his legs, pumping up and down, striated where the muscles met and sweat ran in rivulets, had dominated her fantasies the last few weeks.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/a-ce...
August 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Aaaaand we're officially back! And even better: we're open for submissions.✨ We can't wait to dive back into your work!
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Aaaaand we're officially back! And even better: we're open for submissions.✨ We can't wait to dive back into your work!
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So glad to have this support @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social. I am (obviously) biased but this book is special with @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie and Ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social
Our founding editor, Tejaswinee, with THR contributor @ronita.bsky.social, one of the writers featured in Grieving Hope, ed. @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. It was our pleasure writing a blurb for this beautiful collection. Get your copy from the ELJ Editons website: elj-editions.com/grieving-hope/
August 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So glad to have this support @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social. I am (obviously) biased but this book is special with @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie and Ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social
So many great lines to quote from this story, many maybe not appropriate to share here. But this will give you an idea of the story’s tone.
“Ah, I’m a teetotaller myself!” Reynolds said sliding off the bar. He tapped a nostril. “Except the odd snoot toot of Columbian booger sugar.”
Just read it!
“Ah, I’m a teetotaller myself!” Reynolds said sliding off the bar. He tapped a nostril. “Except the odd snoot toot of Columbian booger sugar.”
Just read it!
New flash at one of my faves @maudlinhouse.bsky.social !!! Stuck in an airport lounge with Ryan Reynolds and try to stay sober! WHEN THE GUY WHO PLAYED DEADPOOL WAS MY AA SPONSOR. Aiming to get at least one laugh out of you!
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When the Guy Who Played Deadpool Was My AA Sponsor
I took a seat at the bar inside the Delta lounge at Tampa International next to the last person I wanted to see. Ryan Reynolds. Hawaiian shirt and swarmy Hollywood smile. Seriously, I wasn’t in the mo...
maudlinhouse.net
August 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So many great lines to quote from this story, many maybe not appropriate to share here. But this will give you an idea of the story’s tone.
“Ah, I’m a teetotaller myself!” Reynolds said sliding off the bar. He tapped a nostril. “Except the odd snoot toot of Columbian booger sugar.”
Just read it!
“Ah, I’m a teetotaller myself!” Reynolds said sliding off the bar. He tapped a nostril. “Except the odd snoot toot of Columbian booger sugar.”
Just read it!
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Today is @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social launch day! I’m celebrating with my micro “The Devil You Don’t Know” - originally published in The Ilanot Review.
August 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Today is @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social launch day! I’m celebrating with my micro “The Devil You Don’t Know” - originally published in The Ilanot Review.
This! It's so much more fun to celebrate than denigrate. I'll take puppies any day!
One thing I love about this writing community is how so many people cheer for each other's success! When my friends receive recognition for their work, I want to throw them a party & give them puppies!
Might not be enough party hats & puppies to go around, though. Congrats all around, Friends!
Might not be enough party hats & puppies to go around, though. Congrats all around, Friends!
July 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This! It's so much more fun to celebrate than denigrate. I'll take puppies any day!