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I’m giving away a free copy of my new chapbook, Girls on Film, to Goodreads members. Enter on Goodreads starting September 22. And watch for more author events and writing classes, coming soon.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Girls on Film
by Kathryn Kulpa
Giveaway ends October 03, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
I’m so excited to announce that my flash fiction chapbook, Girls on Film, has been released and is available for purchase. It was a winner of the 2015 Vella Chapbook Contest and is published by Paper Nautilus.
The collection is 33 pages, with eight loosely linked stories that play with themes of image, celebrity, and desire.
It’s available for sale on the publisher’s web site, and I’m also selling signed copies through my Etsy shop, BookishGirlGoods.
I’ll be teaching flash fiction writing workshops for teens and adults at several different locations in fall 2016, working with Rhode Island Writers in the Schools and Goat Hill Writers.
I’ve also got a book launch and some other fun bookish events planned, so check here or follow me on Facebook or Twitter for updates.
Patty Flaherty Pagan, editor and publisher at Spider Road Press, is calling for more people to review Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers. It’s an amazing anthology, and I’d think so even if it didn’t have two of my stories in it.
Here are some reasons why:
- Flash fiction rules, and all these stories are flash fiction. It’s the perfect take-along book. Each story can be read in small chunks of time. If you’re like me, small chunks of time are probably all you have most days!
- The anthology is inclusive and showcases the full diversity of contemporary women writers’ voices. You’ll find literary fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction, mystery, and horror–as well as stories that defy genre and categorization.
- The stories cover a wide range of women’s experiences, from childhood to the elder years. They’re set in the past, the present, and, in some cases, the future.
- So what do they have in common? Excellent writing. Strong women’s voices. Complex female protagonists.
To encourage more people to read and review Up, Do, I’m offering a FREE AUTOGRAPHED COPY to anyone who posts a comment here or on my Facebook page. All you need to do in return is review it–on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, or your favorite online book site.
Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers includes new, never-before-published work by Tantra Bensko, Theo Greenblatt, Donna Hill, Tania Moore, Eden Royce, and many other talented writers. My contributions are “We Decided,” an exploration of adolescent creativity and the complexities of female friendship, and “Lights Out: Zelda at Highland Hospital,” inspired by the life and writing of Zelda Fitzgerald.
To win an autographed copy, leave your comment here or on my Facebook post by June 10, 2016. I will choose one random winner.
And if you’ve already read Up, Do, I encourage you to review it. Even short reviews can help readers decide whether to buy a book–and that keeps all of us writers going!
So April was National Poetry Month, and as busy as it always is.
Downtown Turkey owns this sidewalk.
I visited Falmouth Public Library for two days of teen writing workshops and met this well-mannered turkey strutting his stuff downtown. As usual, my students inspired me, and I started a new flash fiction story.
I took part in Goat Hill Writers Workshop-Palooza! event, a daylong feast of writing workshops, in Providence and led two flash fiction workshops. Oh, and finished that story, and wrote another new story!
Workshop-Palooza!
I visited De La Salle Middle School, also in Providence, through the RI Writers in the Schools program (thanks, Tina Cane–you are the best!) and spent a spirited hour with some talented seventh-grade writers, doing erasure poetry based on a Prince song, a quote from To Kill a Mockingbird, and an encyclopedia entry about mourning doves.
And I finished the month with a new publication, “The Last Thing She Wore,” in Monkeybicycle.
Next month: more work on my forthcoming chapbook, Girls on Film, and rejuvenation and renewal at Morning Garden Writers’ Retreat!
Trees are your friends. They won’t let you fall.
I have a new flash fiction piece up at Digging Through the Fat. Or is it a short-short story? It comes in at just under 1,000 words, so it’s flash by some definitions, not by others.
It feels like flash to me, though, so I’m going to go with that. The story is called “What a Girl Knows About Trees,” and it grew out of a writing prompt: list ten things you know about something, and one thing you don’t know.
The story grew beyond the original exercise, as stories (and girls, and trees) do. Thanks to my mom, for giving me the first line of this story; to my writing group, for their inspiration and support; and to Gessy Alvarez, editor of Digging, for publishing it.
A Christmas memory, published on the Silver Birch Press blog as part of their “Me, During the Holidays” series.
My flash prose collection, Girls on Film, is a winner in the 2015 Vella Chapbook Contest sponsored by Paper Nautilus Press. I don’t have too many details yet, but it will be published sometime in 2016.
This is turning out to be an awesome workshop series! We had a great class last night with lots of good work and engaging talk about drafts, revision, and figuring out what’s essential to a story and what can be cut. Thanks to the Rogers Free Library for providing a welcoming space in their beautiful, historic library right in my old neighborhood in Bristol, Rhode Island.
If you’re interested in hosting a writing workshop in your library, school, or arts center, message me. I can lead programs in different formats, from a one-day intensive write-a-thon to a multi-week class.
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