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A newsletter on all things writing where Kathryn Mockler writes about the writing process and other troubles and invites guest writers and artists to…

Nov 28, 2024 • Kathryn Mockler

Realism Sheds Its Abstraction

Collage | Kathryn Mockler

Mar 21 • Kathryn Mockler

Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler

Short Fiction, Autofiction, Flash Fiction, One-liners, Dialogues

May 21, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Gatherings Issue 54

18 hrs ago • Kathryn Mockler

I do appreciate a good disgusted face, but I wouldn’t want it to stick.

I've been meaning to ask Don Pyle

Apr 21

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On Not Wanting Children

Mar 8, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

While I didn’t have wild expectations, I did have some low-bar desires like readers not FUCKING HATING MY BOOK.

Mar 16, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Incy Wincy Spider

Nov 16, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

A Volunteer's Life

Nov 19, 2025 • KIRBY

Monthly interviews, craft tips, prompts, essays, guest posts, recommendations!

I've Been Meaning to Ask You (Interview Series)

I do appreciate a good disgusted face, but I wouldn’t want it to stick.

I've been meaning to ask Don Pyle

Apr 21

We are all, all of us, going through a very hard time.

I've been meaning to ask Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Feb 17

I've been meaning to ask Amanda Earl

Feb 17 • Amanda Earl

It’s tough to distinguish creativity and play.

I've been meaning to ask Liz Johnston

Jan 26 • Liz Johnston

My first sensory memory is a loop of wasps buzzing around my neck.

I've been meaning to ask Mallory Tater

Jan 16

The best and worst dreams always have to do with my dogs.

I've been meaning to ask Tara Gereaux

Jan 16 • Tara Gereaux

The best dreams always centre on the experience of swimming.

I've been meaning to ask Pauline Holdstock

Jan 2

Bliss is otherworldly, a connection with the divine.

I've been meaning to ask Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

Jan 2 • Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

Leave embarrassment to its own, okay?

I've been meaning to ask Canisia Lubrin

Nov 23, 2025

The First Time (Kirby's Column)

Debwewin (Truth)

"Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows..."

Mar 9 • KIRBY

Renee Nicole Good murdered by ICE

Jan 12 • KIRBY

3:10

"Do you think you'll die of AIDS?"

Listen now | In recognition of World AIDS Day, Kirby reads from Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021).

Dec 1, 2025 • KIRBY

A Volunteer's Life

How I've lived as a "working artist."

Nov 19, 2025 • KIRBY

"Ah, but Bunnie I loved you"

"Hunker down kids!"

Sep 1, 2025 • KIRBY

Ignore Me (Kathryn's Column)

Baby Yada and the Girl Who Ate the Rope by Kate Rogers

I unabashedly wept at Rogers’ tenderness.

Apr 17 • Kathryn Mockler

Realism Sheds Its Abstraction

Collage | Kathryn Mockler

Mar 21 • Kathryn Mockler

Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal

Recommended Reads

Jan 12 • Kathryn Mockler

These Dead Things Are Not My Fault by Amber Nuyens

A phenomenal collection of prose poems and essayettes from an exciting new voice.

Dec 17, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Wonderland Road by Carrianne Leung

This is a book that truly meets our current moment.

Dec 16, 2025

One of These Day's We'll Both Be Fine (Flash Memoir by Kathryn Mockler)

Songs are the closest thing we have to time travel.

One of these days we'll both be fine

Feb 26 • Kathryn Mockler

Heartbreaking Conversations

One of these days we'll both be fine

Feb 1 • Kathryn Mockler

Anti-Capitalist Christmas

One of these days we'll both be fine

Dec 11, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Incy Wincy Spider

One of these days we'll both be fine

Nov 16, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

I don’t know about this psychic business

One of these days we'll both be fine

Oct 12, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Words Count: All things writing, craft, anti-craft, and surviving the literary and publishing world (Kathryn and Guests)

Don’t start a newsletter unless you want to.

Words Count | Kathryn Mockler | Newsletter Tips for Authors

Jan 25 • Kathryn Mockler

Now I Feel Like a Real Author

"I’m not a phantom marketer in a sparkly trench coat."

Nov 23, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

I’m passionate about self-promotion for authors because I believe it is one way to fight AI.

Self Promotion Ideas & Opportunities

Nov 20, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

How to ask for something for creatives

Words Count | Asking for blurbs, references, information, agents, and more.

Oct 23, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

How to write a cover letter for creatives

Words Count | Cover letter template for sending work to agents, lit mags, publishers, MFA programs, producers, and more!

Oct 10, 2025 • Kathryn Mockler

Susan Stories (Selected Works by Susan Shuter)

I lose all hope for your soul.

Susan Shuter | Issue 53

Feb 27 • Kathryn Mockler

She talked to the boots. Warning them to come home as soon as it got dark; there were chores to be done.

Susan Shuter | Issue 52

Jan 22

Jan 3 • Kathryn Mockler

Poetry (Guest Posts)

Should’ve asked to be the corpse / instead

Poetry | Brandi Bird | Issue 53

Feb 17 • Bird

Praise what steeps open the slow seed / or washes away with wild currents

Poetry | Excerpt | Anna Swanson | Issue 48

Aug 13, 2025

Describe the body, if you wish to collect it.

Poetry | Eva H.D. | Issue 48

Jul 24, 2025 • Eva H.D.

No, my grandmother’s the one who collects / things

Poetry | Jane Shi | Issue 48

Jun 30, 2025

Don’t worry. I’m not even a person.

Poetry | Jennifer LoveGrove | Issue 53

Feb 19

Fiction, Nonfiction, Art & Hybrid Works (Guest Posts)

I lose all hope for your soul.

Susan Shuter | Issue 53

Feb 27 • Kathryn Mockler

The silence. The quiet that fell over our family, over other Métis families.

Essay | Tara Gereaux | Issue 52

Feb 1 • Tara Gereaux

She talked to the boots. Warning them to come home as soon as it got dark; there were chores to be done.

Susan Shuter | Issue 52

Jan 22

The smoke inside of us can never be quelled.

Nonfiction | Quill Christie-Peters | Issue 51

Dec 2, 2025

Ours are stories about Iran that will not be found in Western media...

Nonfiction | Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy | Issue 49

Oct 8, 2025

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