Kip Knott

"Inside the box is time itself—fifteen years to be precise"

Oh wow, this piece by @kiptain.bsky.social is stunningly powerful. One of the best micros I've read all year 🙌

Thank your for your kind words, Matt! I really appreciate it!

Here’s the opening of my first ever piece of speculative fiction, “Neighborhood Watch,” that just dropped in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors for giving this story a home & to MarcMRodriguez for the perfect artwork. Click here to read the whole story maudlinhouse.net/neighborhood...

Thank you, Matt!

Bird in the Desert — Ghost Parachute In December of 1945, while on his way from New York to Los Angeles to play a gig, Charlie Parker disembarked from the train in Arizona to wander the desert in search of a fix. I can’t see the river, b...

I love the repetition in this piece from @kiptain.bsky.social : ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

We're delighted to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize 2026.
Congratulations to Kelsey Coletta, Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social , Jennifer McMahon, Rebecca Tiger, Huina Zheng & Melissa Flores Anderson

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Pushcart Prize 2026 Nominee
Interstices by Kip Knott (Issue 6 - 31/01/2025)
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Thank you so much for honoring me and my poem with this nomination!

By the Numbers - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash by Kip Knott The hole I’ve spent thirty minutes digging is two feet deep and three feet round. The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a c...

“The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a clock, with the top of the box marking twelve and the bottom of the box marking six.” @kiptain.bsky.social

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I’m always incredibly honored to have work in Bending Genres. Here’s the opening paragraph of my new story “Monochromatic” that dropped today in Issue 47. Click the link below to read the whole story, as well as the other genre-bending works in this terrific issue.
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Thank you, Elizabeth!

It’s always a pleasure to work with the terrific editors at 101 Words. Many thanks to them for publishing my new microfiction, “Three-Day Thaw.” Click this link to visit their site: 101words.org

Issue 36 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Louella Lester, Find More of her work Here Stories Monarch is a new awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses.  G...

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Thank you to @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my story “By the Numbers” in the newest issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Click here to check out all the stories in this amazing issue: gooseberry-pie.com/issue-36/

Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell — Ghost Parachute I can’t say I’m all that surprised I ended up in Hell after I died, but things are really starting to look up. I admit that I had to fight through some pretty formidable foes with nothing more than a ...

What a great story by @kiptain.bsky.social in the new Ghost Parachute! Awesome art by my pal @courtneyb77.bsky.social, too!

Thank you for the shout out!

Here are the first two paragraphs of my new flash fiction “Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell.” Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social for including this story in Ghost Parachute. And thank you to Courtney Burton for the artwork. Click here to read the full story: ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Self-Portraits in a Broken Mirror by Kip Knott Self-Portraits in a Broken Mirror When you break the mirror this morning to celebrate turning 60, your ordinary face shatters into a hundred cutting shards like a running commentary on who you were…

Proud to have a new poem drop in @oneart.bsky.social today. Many thanks to @markdanowsky.bsky.social for his continued support of my work. oneartpoetry.com/2025/09/28/s...

This poem was published in the Mudlark Flash series just before the 2016 election. Sadly, the first six of these dreams have now come to fruition in one way or another. Time will tell if the same holds true for the seventh dream.

Here is a poem in honor of Mark Rothko’s birthday today. I don’t know where I’d be as a writer without Rothko’s paintings in the world. www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

Here’s my second poem, “Astronomers Explain Why There Are No Green Stars,” that dropped yesterday in @eunoiareview.bsky.social. Thank you to @clayennisastro.bsky.social for the beautiful image of the Lagoon Nebula. eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/a...

Here’s the first of two new poems that dropped today on @eunoiareview.bsky.social. Click this link to read the second poem, “Astronomers Explain Why There Are No Green Stars”: eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/a...

Whitman wholeheartedly believes that cats make the softest pillows.

A poem for Labor Day from my book CLEAN COAL BURN (Kelsay Books, 2021). Make sure your coals are nice and hot.
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Here’s another piece from the not-too-distant past that was published in @antiheroinchic.bsky.social back in 2021. I truly hope this zine comes back from its indefinite hiatus very soon because it is missed!

Another blast from the past from another zine that I really miss. Thank you to Second Chance Lit for originally publishing this piece back in 2021.

A blast from the past. I can’t say for certain what inspired this bizarre little story. It must’ve been one of my antiquing forays into Amish Country here in Ohio. Many thanks to (mac)ro(mic)—a wonderful zine that I miss every day—for publishing this story back in 2021.

Felt like making buttermilk biscuits from scratch this morning.

Thank you so much for the shout out!