Kathryn Kulpa
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
It’s November and the shadows fall long under broody skies.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It’s November and the shadows fall long under broody skies.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Today I needed breathing space, and the sound of a brook.
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Today I needed breathing space, and the sound of a brook.
September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Tomorrow, 9/14/25, @ 7pm ET. Hope you can join us!
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tomorrow, 9/14/25, @ 7pm ET. Hope you can join us!
Like a ghost of summer.
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Like a ghost of summer.
On writing community and how to find one, in my latest newsletter.
kathrynk.substack.com
kathrynk.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
On writing community and how to find one, in my latest newsletter.
kathrynk.substack.com
kathrynk.substack.com
We will walk in the sand where it’s warm on our feet
We will savor the summer
And the summer is sweet
in the end
Like a friend
But we know it has to go before it comes again.
(A poem I wrote in high school and can still recite word for word, but don’t ask me what the Pythagorean theorem is.)
We will savor the summer
And the summer is sweet
in the end
Like a friend
But we know it has to go before it comes again.
(A poem I wrote in high school and can still recite word for word, but don’t ask me what the Pythagorean theorem is.)
September 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We will walk in the sand where it’s warm on our feet
We will savor the summer
And the summer is sweet
in the end
Like a friend
But we know it has to go before it comes again.
(A poem I wrote in high school and can still recite word for word, but don’t ask me what the Pythagorean theorem is.)
We will savor the summer
And the summer is sweet
in the end
Like a friend
But we know it has to go before it comes again.
(A poem I wrote in high school and can still recite word for word, but don’t ask me what the Pythagorean theorem is.)
My latest newsletter (it’s free) talks about the ‘right’ way to be a writer (spoiler: there isn’t one).
It’s at kathrynk.substack.com if you want to read or subscribe. Thanks!
It’s at kathrynk.substack.com if you want to read or subscribe. Thanks!
August 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My latest newsletter (it’s free) talks about the ‘right’ way to be a writer (spoiler: there isn’t one).
It’s at kathrynk.substack.com if you want to read or subscribe. Thanks!
It’s at kathrynk.substack.com if you want to read or subscribe. Thanks!
Make a little birdhouse around your neck! 🪺🧌
August 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Make a little birdhouse around your neck! 🪺🧌
He’s gotta wear shades.
August 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
He’s gotta wear shades.
Ian wants to wish you a happy #internationalcatday. 🌎🐈 But first, an important message from this paw.
August 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ian wants to wish you a happy #internationalcatday. 🌎🐈 But first, an important message from this paw.
Deer friend! 💚 🦌
August 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Deer friend! 💚 🦌
Start August with a leap! I’m leading a weeklong intensive flash writing workshop through Cleaver magazine. Daily prompts, personal feedback. For info, visit cleavermagazine.com/classes/.
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Start August with a leap! I’m leading a weeklong intensive flash writing workshop through Cleaver magazine. Daily prompts, personal feedback. For info, visit cleavermagazine.com/classes/.
🎼 Well, I’ve got
two paws on the window
and the others are
perched on the cat tree! 🎶 🐾
two paws on the window
and the others are
perched on the cat tree! 🎶 🐾
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎼 Well, I’ve got
two paws on the window
and the others are
perched on the cat tree! 🎶 🐾
two paws on the window
and the others are
perched on the cat tree! 🎶 🐾
Farewell to sweetest and softest girl Molly, lover of boxes and hidey-holes, hoarder of catnip bananas, and ruler of her feline kingdom, 2011-2025. 🌈💙
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Farewell to sweetest and softest girl Molly, lover of boxes and hidey-holes, hoarder of catnip bananas, and ruler of her feline kingdom, 2011-2025. 🌈💙
Mornings are for coffee and contemplation and sniffing the air. 🐶
July 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mornings are for coffee and contemplation and sniffing the air. 🐶
Working on more insanely challenging (but fun) assignments for the August workshop!
July 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Working on more insanely challenging (but fun) assignments for the August workshop!
This is Clark. Clark used to be a neighborhood stray, until he rolled his way into my heart. 💙 Going on 10 years now! Cat distribution system at its best. 💕🐈⬛
July 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is Clark. Clark used to be a neighborhood stray, until he rolled his way into my heart. 💙 Going on 10 years now! Cat distribution system at its best. 💕🐈⬛
“I’ve always hated the Fourth of July.” Throwback story from the archives of Flash Boulevard, 2021.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“I’ve always hated the Fourth of July.” Throwback story from the archives of Flash Boulevard, 2021.
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/k...
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/k...
It’s contributor copy day! Thank you to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social editors and to the editors at @centaurlit.bsky.social & Dirtbag for nominating my stories! 💚💛🩷
June 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It’s contributor copy day! Thank you to @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social editors and to the editors at @centaurlit.bsky.social & Dirtbag for nominating my stories! 💚💛🩷
Summer workshop starting SOON! 7 days, 7 flash fiction drafts.
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cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32756...
June 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Summer workshop starting SOON! 7 days, 7 flash fiction drafts.
cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32756...
cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/32756...
I’m so happy I won an advance reading copy of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE by @edenroyce.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read it (after Ian finishes, of course.)
June 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m so happy I won an advance reading copy of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE by @edenroyce.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read it (after Ian finishes, of course.)
June 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM