Katie
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Co-founder / EIC of Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
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Katie
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
· Aug 2
Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
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#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Excited to have a poem published in ballast ~ check it out here! 💕
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Thanks for the #HorrorWritersChat!
For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social!
acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...
For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social!
acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks for the #HorrorWritersChat!
For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social!
acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...
For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social!
acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...
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I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem"
"it's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango..."
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...
"it's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango..."
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...
Heimlich After I Eat Poetry Too Quickly Again by Todd Dillard
It's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango,
grandmothers in kitchens
with their stoic spoons,
crows barking in alder trees,
enough dead deer to overflow football stadiums,
sad f...
www.havehashad.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem"
"it's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango..."
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...
"it's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango..."
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...
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I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers.
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
"Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."
This 🔥
I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.
Go Bag ~ by Chris Scott
One gallon of water, one first-aid kit, one pocket knife, two boxes of granola bars, three pouches of pre-cooked rice and beans, two hundred dollars in cash, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, hand sani…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This 🔥
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October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
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I could not have written this poem were it not for my students in the Calvin Prison Initiative. For them, I am immeasurably grateful.
And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.
And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.
October 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I could not have written this poem were it not for my students in the Calvin Prison Initiative. For them, I am immeasurably grateful.
And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.
And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.
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Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)!
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)!
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖
#shortstory #fiction #indiepress
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The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems.
But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause.
Join us. Register here:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause.
Join us. Register here:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems.
But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause.
Join us. Register here:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause.
Join us. Register here:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
This means so much 💕
@S2Fjournal.bsky.social has been featured in our #IndieLitMagGala 2025 series—a journal that proves poetry doesn’t have to be solitary. Collaborative, experimental, and full of care.
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: ALOCASIA Journal - The Broken Spine
Some journals are built to publish poems. Others are built to make connection happen.Spark to Flame is the latter—part lit mag, part poetic matchmaking
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This means so much 💕
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Wow 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
@S2Fjournal.bsky.social has been featured in our #IndieLitMagGala 2025 series—a journal that proves poetry doesn’t have to be solitary. Collaborative, experimental, and full of care.
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
The nomination came in anonymously—and we took it in good faith.
Read the full piece:
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: ALOCASIA Journal - The Broken Spine
Some journals are built to publish poems. Others are built to make connection happen.Spark to Flame is the latter—part lit mag, part poetic matchmaking
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wow 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕
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October 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanks to @rejectionlit.bsky.social for publishing my poem “Guns, Sex, Phones” today:
rejection-letters.com/2025/10/16/g...
rejection-letters.com/2025/10/16/g...
Guns, Sex, Phones (Katherine Schmidt)
My friend says let’s go to the shooting range and I tell her I don’t know anything about guns. About hunting. About how fun it is to let loose. To pretend we don’t eat microwaveable Mac and cheese …
rejection-letters.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thanks to @rejectionlit.bsky.social for publishing my poem “Guns, Sex, Phones” today:
rejection-letters.com/2025/10/16/g...
rejection-letters.com/2025/10/16/g...
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What is morning and what if it doesn’t arrive? One morning mother dropped an egg and asked me if God was the same species as we are? Smear of light at five a.m. Sound of Weber’s sheep flock and sandhill cranes across the road, burble of irrigation ditch beneath my window.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
September 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What is morning and what if it doesn’t arrive? One morning mother dropped an egg and asked me if God was the same species as we are? Smear of light at five a.m. Sound of Weber’s sheep flock and sandhill cranes across the road, burble of irrigation ditch beneath my window.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
Beautiful
Thank you to Wendy Lesser for making a spot for "Being and Time" (my poem, not Heidegger's treatise) in Threepenny Review.
Extra happy because my poem gets to hang out with one by @toddedillard.bsky.social.
Extra happy because my poem gets to hang out with one by @toddedillard.bsky.social.
September 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Beautiful
Yeah this is great.
we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social !
i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out
xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...
i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out
xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...
LATE TO WORK by Benjamin Drevlow
This morning I’m hauling ass across the intersection across from the Krispy Kreme opposite the Kum & Go so I don’t get steamrolled by one of the yokels in their jacked-up pickups when some old lady in...
xraylitmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yeah this is great.
Excited to have a poem published in ballast ~ check it out here! 💕
Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
August 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Excited to have a poem published in ballast ~ check it out here! 💕
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Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
August 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Contributor Features from ballast 3.3:
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else”
@ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc...
#contributorfeature
#poetry
#poem
#poems
#ballast
#KatherineSchmidt
Excited for this! 😎
DMV folks: 804 lit salon on August 16th at 7p. Always lmk if you need an invite or want to be added!
We will have readings from @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social @Amanda Newell Allie Barkmeier, Molly McGinnis, Bailey Blumenstock, and @ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=...
We will have readings from @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social @Amanda Newell Allie Barkmeier, Molly McGinnis, Bailey Blumenstock, and @ktonbsky.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=...
July 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Excited for this! 😎
This was great.
really great short lil essay today from Joey Hedger about trying to find Malört in DC!
"The liquor store is a maze of shelves; it’s overwhelming, so I ask the cashier if they have what I’m looking for. She doesn’t know what I’m talking about."
https://www.havehashad.com/zwjwb
"The liquor store is a maze of shelves; it’s overwhelming, so I ask the cashier if they have what I’m looking for. She doesn’t know what I’m talking about."
https://www.havehashad.com/zwjwb
Her Jesus Year by Joey Hedger
She likes a themed party, so I am on Capitol Hill looking for a bottle of Malört from the only place in the city that sells it while she makes hotdogs and frozen deep dish she got at Safeway. She…
www.havehashad.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This was great.
This piece 🔥
New words in this month's Clarkesworld! Check out "Missing Helen," a story featuring clones, identity, and a number of poor romantic decisions :)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/
July 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This piece 🔥
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DMV area folks: Happening tonight at 7p @kramerbooks . Going to be reading and chatting with @andrewporter01.bsky.social ! Come out.
July 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
DMV area folks: Happening tonight at 7p @kramerbooks . Going to be reading and chatting with @andrewporter01.bsky.social ! Come out.
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cannot wait for this tomorrow!! 🔗 in quoted 🧵 to register & listen in live :)💡
I am so excited to announce that the launch reading for A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems officially has a lineup!! register at the 🔗 in 🧵 to hear Lauren Parker, Jude Marr, Zoe Mitchell, Amanda McLeod, C. T. Salazar, Beth Gordon, & Tom Snarsky on Thursday, 7/17! 🎤💌⛰️💡
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
cannot wait for this tomorrow!! 🔗 in quoted 🧵 to register & listen in live :)💡
Excited to have a piece out with ballast! Check out the issue ☺️
July 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Excited to have a piece out with ballast! Check out the issue ☺️
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