Kiran Kaur Saini

escapepod.orgEscape Pod 1049: AmritThe doorbell rang as Fox Singh lay staring into the plumbing under the kitchen sink. “Go away!” He wasn’t expecting anybody, and if any of his neighbors ever rang, it was only to complain about the…

12 June

"New" story day! I couldn't be more moved by Kaushik Narasimhan's beautiful reading of my story, "Amrit" in the current episode of @escapepod.org. If you missed this when it was print only a few years ago, please have a listen to this wonderful reading! Thank you, Kaushik and Escape Pod!

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Mellow salutations, sophonts! Today we've come to bring you "Amrit" by @kirsphere.bsky.social. Check it out!

23 May

Friends, it's new story day! Read the high stakes story of a worm going back and forth across a driveway here: westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/kiran-kaur-s...

14 Mar

Looks like I'm going to have a story out in audio in the summer. More details after the contract is signed.

23 Feb

These last few weeks have been wonderful for short story revisions. Last week finished final edits on my high stakes story about a worm going back and forth across a driveway (out in a few months) and have now been working on my southern gothic ghost story, the closest to horror I've written.

1 Feb

Friends, I'm teaching a class. It's all about writing interiority, and it's a subject I'm passionate about. It's an elusive topic and I've worked hard to make it concrete and accessible, as I consider it the lifeblood of prose fiction and a key component of voice. Here's a video introduction:

youtu.beKiran on InteriorityYouTube video by Kiran Kaur Saini

1 Feb

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metrowestwriters.myshopify.comEverything You've Wanted to Know About InteriorityBeing able to reflect your character's interiority is a crucial skill in making that character feel believable and alive and allowing the reader feel they're with the character personally rather than ...

1 Feb

And if you'd like to sign up or want to send fellow writer friends, you can click here: metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/kir.... Classes will be recorded and slides sent; you don't need to attend live, but I'd love to see you!

25 Dec 2025

Hello everyone. Long time no post. Some of you know I was a full-time caregiver to my elderly mom starting in 2019. She passed away in Aug 2024, and I've been laying pretty low since then. But I'm going to try to be out and about more in the new year. Here is tonight's sunset on my evening walk.

translunartravelerslounge.comHome Safe, by Kiran Kaur Sainicw: suicide “Benny—where the hell are you? We got half the town here waiting for crab legs,” my brother Gavin shouted into his phone over children’s laughter and picnic revelry. Behind the cloud of gr...

15 Feb 2024

New story day translunartravelerslounge.com/2024/02/15/h... @translunartl.bsky.social

4 Nov 2023

Readers of Portuguese, my story “The Color of Conflagration,” which won the A.C. Bose Grant this year for South Asian spec lit is out in translation in the anthology Terra Magica in Brazil. The Kindle version is free on Amazon through Sunday, November 5. www.amazon.com/Terra-M%C3%A...

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9 Sept 2023

Buenos días, cafecito en mano☕ y disfrutando del nuevo relato publicado en Aanuk: «Coiffeur siete», de @kirsphere.bsky.social, donde a través de una IA peluquera obtenemos toda una reflexión sobre los cuidados paliativos.

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3 Sept 2023

New publication day! My little story, "The Thin Rising Line" is up at Bullet Points, the anti-war military SciFi journal. https://www.nathantoronto.com/bulletpoints/thin-rising-line

1 Sept 2023

Spanish readers, my story Coiffeur Seven is now up on Crononauta at https://aanuk.crononauta.es/coiffeur-siete-de-kiran-kaur-saini/. Thanks so much to María Albaladejo for translating!

17 Aug 2023

Vivaldi is home!

16 Aug 2023

Here's Vivaldi meeting my mom yesterday. Still on Target to bring him him Wednesday at noon.

12 Aug 2023

This is Vivaldi. I will be picking him up to bring him to his forever home on Wednesday.

23 July 2023

RIP, Tara, aged 20, my mom's longtime companion and guardian, who was also a sweet friend to me as I've cared for my mom for the last four years.

18 July 2023

I'm at a B&B for a week, and these are my temporary companions, Pudding and Cookie.

13 July 2023

This pic is from a while ago, but this is what my writing life sometimes feels like.

13 July 2023

I'm so here for this.

Brendan O’Kane@bokane.org

You know what? Today’s the day. I’m going to translate a haiku into a limerick and none of you can stop me. 飛こんで古歌洗う蛙かな You know Bashō, of course -- magisterial - and his old puddle (beauty: ethereal). But if you like haiku then check out Buson too, 'cause that froggy has got new material.

Hello all. For anyone who doesn't know me yet, I'm a long time writer of short stories who has been ramping it up since become a full time caregiver to my 89-yr-old mom at the start of the pandemic. I publish in both literary and spec milieus, and also write stuff that can't fit into either.

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mastersreview.comNew Voices: “Pigeons in Every Universe” by Kiran Kaur SainiOur first New Voices story comes to us from Kiran Kaur Saini! In this moving flash fiction, our young bedridden neighbor finds a penpal using messenger pigeons, under the guidance of her grandfather. ...

Relinking "Pigeons in Every Universe," in The Masters Review, (flash,) because I'm still learning how Bluesky works. https://mastersreview.com/new-voices-pigeons-in-every-universe-by-kiran-kaur-saini/

tahomaliteraryreview.comFrom Issue 13: The Augury of Bats (Flash Fiction)Sheri tells me there are bats in her closet. “They’re diving and circling around and diving again.” Sheri is four and, as far as I know, has never seen a bat. From

This one was a little while ago, but I'm also rather proud of "The Augury of Bats," at Tahoma Literary Review. https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/blogs/excerpts/from-issue-13-the-augury-of-bats-flash-fiction

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"Amrit," about a crotchety old man, his Medicare-sponsored caregiving robot, turban-tying, and second chances.

forgelitmag.comMore Than a Lion - The ForgeChristmas morning, during my sister’s visit, we came out to find a lion in the living room. “We did this,” Indu said. “We wanted it that much.” She grinned with even more exuberance than usu...

And, "More Than a Lion," in The Forge, which was selected for Best Small Fictions this coming year. https://forgelitmag.com/2022/01/10/more-than-a-lion/

I also play piano, sing soprano, and paint watercolors. Cats living here include Minka and Tara, who are 5 and 22 yrs old. (Pic L-R = Tara and Minka).