Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

Still time to sign up before tomorrow!

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

I Am Fighting Back Against the Trump Administration by Moving to Portugal “More people moved out of the U.S. last year than moved in for the first time since the Great Depression as a record number of citizens moved abroa...

"Let it be known that while in America, I always stood with the immigrant farmworkers who picked our food. Most recently, I stood in line at Erewhon to buy a nineteen-dollar basket of strawberries that they surely picked. All so I could bring a snack for the plane ride to Lisbon."

Want to come to this year’s Flash Fiction Festival? Just 11 single bnb rooms left if you want to stay at the college. Though there is camping too! Hope you can com. Book at flashfictionfestival.com

My book baby's birthday! Big thank you to @stanchion.bsky.social (order link below!) 🧡

Huge congratulations, Timothy!! 📚🎊

A banger! X

YES! I should coco! 😁

new flash is up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 💕

Fantastic...I loved this! 🔥

Salt City Runaway by Gillian O'Shaughnessy - Night Parrot Press Please note: Pre-orders of Salt City Runaway by Gillian O'Shaughnessy will ship in early May. Helen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last ciga...

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Kik Lodge — Does It Have Pockets At the soup kitchen, hearts shrink and flesh out

It’s always a joy collaborating with @doesithavepockets.bsky.social and they’ve gone and published a new micro with something like hope in it. 🙌♥️☀️

Oof. Another great piece! 💥

a full moon with a silhouette of a tree in front of it Alt: a yellow full moon rising, with a silhouette of a tree in front of it

It's the worm moon, and you know what that means: the new edition of @gonelawn.bsky.social ! Thank you, @owenwyke.bsky.social and @amygcb.bsky.social for including two of my weirdlings in this very special issue. 1/2

My New Doctor Asks Me If I’ve Ever Used Tobacco Products I lie because I don’t want my insurance rates to go up, because he has my family history right in front of him where it says both my parents died of lung cancer. Even if he’s too polite to say it, …

Thrilled to have a new CNF in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social , a magazine I’ve long admired. Grateful to the awesome @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for letting me dip my toes in the illustrious waters of this new issue. 🐳 🗺️ 📓

Wow. Superb writing, Barlow 💔🔥

Congratulations, Shelley!! I knew at the longlist that if the story lived up to the title it'd be a winner! And it did! Brilliant story! Go buy all the eggs and all the champagne!! 🥂

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Is there anyone coming to Flash Festival in UK in July who could get this for me and I pay you back? They don't ship outside US. @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social ?? 🙏

Working my way through the @wigleaf.bsky.social top 50 for 2025 and read this flash by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social -- ooof! Take a minute to read it. The ending....

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Thanks, Carrie!

So sorry for your loss, Sarah.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Thank you, for your comment Dan! I rest my case!! 🙏💚

Writing Slant Flash fiction, feeling, and form with WestWord Prize judge Kathryn Aldridge-Morris

Honoured to be judging this year's WestWord prize. Read my interview here!! ⬇️
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TY!! 💚🙏

One of my favorite collections of 2025 was Kathryn Morris-Aldridge's "Cold Toast." Here's a review of it in @smokelong.bsky.social !

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