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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.

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it's tha 1st of tha month, submissions are open

thanks !

01.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Flowing stream and autumn trees.

Flowing stream and autumn trees.

Today I needed breathing space, and the sound of a brook.

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Thanks so much for sharing!

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Shower skullduggery in mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas....
#flashfiction

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Congrats, Louella! Looking forward to reading!

24.09.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social for publishing my weird little story in BULL!

24.09.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where can I vote?

21.09.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure this is something to celebrate, but September has been my most rejection-y month of the year.
#flashfiction #writing

21.09.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"She can’t truly picture him now, except for his eyes, a warm chocolate brown and kind, so kind." Petey by Colleen Kearney Rich @ckrich.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/19/p...

19.09.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Fiction: Kathryn Kulpa: Five Things I Remember from the Anthropocene Age

I have a few. Here is one:

www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ14/Kulpa...

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Surfer Girl by Kathryn Kulpa For Brian WilsonWhen you roll tumbled from the waves like a de-fuzzed towel from a dryer, fingers dragging sand from your mermaid hair gone free, stretched-out scrunchie lost to the waves, and you jel...

β€œβ€¦ and you stand while this whole world whirls around you, muscles you didn’t know you had singing a wild chorus …”

@writesofkathryn.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

18.09.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Micro read of the day.

18.09.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Pat! I needed this today. πŸ’•

18.09.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for reading!

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So glad I read this! When some new or common atrocity makes me think β€œGod, I hate people,” I will remember that line and the zebra fish. πŸ¦“πŸ 

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πŸ’šπŸ’™ Thanks, Claudia! πŸ’™πŸ’š

14.09.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing this one! πŸ’™

14.09.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this micro by @jhhwriter.bsky.social. 🐐

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Cleaver magazine readingwith faculty, staff, & editors.

Cleaver magazine readingwith faculty, staff, & editors.

Tomorrow, 9/14/25, @ 7pm ET. Hope you can join us!

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Thanks for sharing, Bronwen! πŸ’™

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Thanks for reading!! 😊

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Thanks, Ani! πŸ’•

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Congrats! Tail wagging activated! πŸ• πŸ• πŸ•

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Surfer Girl by Kathryn Kulpa For Brian WilsonWhen you roll tumbled from the waves like a de-fuzzed towel from a dryer, fingers dragging sand from your mermaid hair gone free, stretched-out scrunchie lost to the waves, and you jel...

So lovely to be here. πŸ’™https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/surfer-girl-by-kathryn-kulpa

12.09.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

So much to think about here.

11.09.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing but rejections this week.
BUT …
this is coming soon!

10.09.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A dandelion at the end of summer, white tufts of seed pods.

A dandelion at the end of summer, white tufts of seed pods.

Like a ghost of summer.

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Bosts in a harbor.

Bosts in a harbor.

On writing community and how to find one, in my latest newsletter.
kathrynk.substack.com

09.09.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dipthong! πŸ˜‚

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