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Katherine Plumhoff
@kplumhoff.bsky.social
fiction @ places

elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
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hi new wave of followers! i'm katherine! i write short fiction. i'm a 2025 fellow at smokelong so i read a lot of flash fiction these days. i'm organizing the european writers salon for europe-based writers to gather together and build community. i am american. i live in spain. i eat a lot of toast.
THAT'S MY FRIEND
I find myself on this shortlist, and am so thrilled. I'm cheering hard for everyone on this list! Huge CONGRATULATIONS to all of you!
Ready for the New Year, we have announced the 2026 NIF award shortlist.,Congrats to all the authors. Final results out end Jan. The longlist was also full of excellent novellas. Best wishes for all of them & to everyone who entered. www.bathflashfictionaward.com/news/
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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2025 was a mixed year, but I am so proud of and got so much joy from all we achieved through @saloneurope.bsky.social

Can't imagine life without it and the wonderful friends I've made, especially @norami.bsky.social @royakhatiblou.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social

❤️
2025 has been a fantastic year for us. Thank you so much to everyone who joined us online or in person.

We kicked it off in January with the first of 4 online salons we've run this year.

We could not do these without amazing host @kiklodge.bsky.social ❤️
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU: excellent title, unsettling movie, rich post-movie discussion fodder
December 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This story by @kplumhoff.bsky.social “Good Sign of Future Happiness” begins like this and just keeps getting wilder:

“Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king.”

From Issue 90 of @smokelong.bsky.social

www.smokelong.com/stories/good...
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
www.smokelong.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
i interviewed @ambersparks.bsky.social for ow but wow (my limited series on feelings) and loved her rec for Lorna Simpson. that sent me on a rabbit hole — which led me to her screenprint "Detroit (Ode to G.)"
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
i am in here, as is everyone i have a crush on ... we love to see it
I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!!

mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
December 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Holy moly!! Read this stunner by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in the latest issue of @smokelong.bsky.social (the whole issue is well worth your time!) Congratulations @kplumhoff.bsky.social on the publication of this exceptional piece!!! 💕🫂
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

www.smokelong.com/stories/good...
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
www.smokelong.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
i have a story in this!

and no one said i couldn't go out and choose my favorite lines from each of my 15 issue-mates' stories (claire .... your mind ... two stories in one issue!) so i've done it in this thread!
Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"When your snoozed alarm goes off again, our faces are pressed together and the air between us is hot enough to steam shrimp."

Read this story from @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social!!!!!
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
last night i walked into an italian restaurant where a friend's parents covertly slid me a kilo of hershey's kisses, smuggled in from los EEUU for my cookie party tonight. international cooperation does exist
December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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went to the beach on a sunny day in december and it turns out i actually have no problems anymore. i don't even know what a problem is
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@masonjarpress.bsky.social this is a gorgeous announcement but more important is WHERE IS MY PREORDER LINKKKKKKK (said with love and enthusiasm) (Ani is everything) (need them on my bookshelf expeditiously)
We are excited to announce our new author, Ani King! Ani's debut book, FAMILY NIGHT, a collection of flash fiction filled with magical realism, will be released in Fall 2026. Join us in welcoming Ani to MJP! @aniking.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social #flashfiction #debutauthor #magicalrealism
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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"The basement, dark and cold, seems like it should be soundproof, but it’s just another place we have to be quiet"

This is a stunner from @kplumhoff.bsky.social. Give it a read!
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
today in murals
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
i have a list of places i browse when i want a story butterfly to land on a branch of my brain and this is one of my fav new additions --

the Dream Bank, a searchable collection of dreams from the last 40 years, some delightful, others horrifying, all of them prompts:

dreambank.net/search.html
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
everyone involved in @saloneurope.bsky.social is simply gorgeous
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
my crush on Kik only grows
“After I gave birth, I understood entropy. Everything decays. Disorder is invincible.

Raging in front of the Sex Museum in Amsterdam, I became entropy.” gonelawn.net/journal/issu... Read this, ooof. 😮 By @kplumhoff.bsky.social the Diva.
Gone Lawn 54 : Katherine Plumhoff
gonelawn.net
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Such a fun day mooching around Madrid with @norami.bsky.social & @kplumhoff.bsky.social exploring the city and seeing venues for @saloneurope.bsky.social in September.

💙
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM