Katherine Plumhoff

hi new wave of followers! i'm katherine! i write short fiction. i'm a 2025 fellow at smokelong so i read a lot of flash fiction these days. i'm organizing the european writers salon for europe-based writers to gather together and build community. i am american. i live in spain. i eat a lot of toast.

days left to sign up and hang with me and @aniking.bsky.social and a bunch of other beautiful wonderful talented writers on SATURDAY! virtual and free! see you there :)

my biggest dream in life is to ruin other people's. thank you @aniking.bsky.social for letting me <3

:') love you @variantlit.bsky.social <3

Going from our first tiny Brussels salon in 2024 to the huge Madrid salon in just 2 years seems unbelievable. What a journey! Huge thanks to our amazing volunteer team - many who have been involved right from the start ❤️❤️

Our story of the week is Maintenance by Sarp Sozdinler.

It's the 1st ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY of the month! 🎉 Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social's story “Lost and Found” was published in Pithead Chapel while we were gone 🎉 Enjoy here: buff.ly/WNsdcfD

talented friends and collaborators alertttttt splitlipthemag.com/lip-service/...

'Nico’s arms are full of her neighbor’s dropped clothes. She feels trapped. She leans her forehead against the cool mirrored wall. She’s never understood the relationship people have to their things.' 'Lost and Found' another wonder by @kplumhoff.bsky.social ! pitheadchapel.com/lost-and-fou...

pretty cool thing happen on a @smokelong.bsky.social sunday afternoon. amy hempel! chuck palahniuk! pinch me!

belinda is so good to me :) things! i will never not find them fascinating!

i am really enjoying reading these, from @europeanreview.bsky.social: europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-footnotes/

my short story 'wants and needs' is the fiction story in the new edition of SOLO — get your copy from one of these stockists: solomagazine.coffee/pages/stockist (aka a list of cool bookstores and cafes in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US. nice!)

"Nico considers calling, telling her mom she struck gold at a neighborhood lost-and-found, asking her to come right away, to not forget the hangers." An extraordinary piece of writing by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 💙💙💙 pitheadchapel.com/lost-and-fou...

Our July issue is here! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover art: CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Words: DEIRDRE DANKLIN @grnpointer.bsky.social JAMES KEITH SMITH @kplumhoff.bsky.social GARTH ROBINSON SAMANTHA VARGAS

SO excited for @emilyrinkema.bsky.social today. incredible writer with an incredible book deserves to win an incredible prize!! can't wait to read more of you emily <3

do it

"In a different world, his is not the only face I think of when I think of family." Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social's flash, titled IN A DIFFERENT WORLD, I AM NOT A STRANGER TO THIS RANCH, was published in Variant Literature ✨ Find it here: buff.ly/dR0qOZ1

on my brady-bunch collaborative-writing-with-my-friends grind this overcast saturday afternoon. thank you @kimmagowan.bsky.social and michelle ross!!

me and my issue mates have presents for youuuuuu

“That dress becomes you,” says Eden’s mom. “Is it Portuguese?” Thrilling piece by @kplumhoff.bsky.social @bulbregion.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity bulbregion.com/Ready-Set-Go...

Need a story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Fiction reader @kplumhoff.bsky.social's “Ready, Set, Go” was published in The Bulb Region🥳 Follow the speaker as she goes back in time with an old friend--the first: buff.ly/GMK7UT8

We resume tomorrow with a new slate of prose and poetry, but before then, make time to read "Good Sign of Future Happiness" by our recent contributor Katherine Plumhoff (@kplumhoff.bsky.social) in SmokeLong Quarterly. www.smokelong.com/stories/good...

so many of my crushes on this list, including @kiklodge.bsky.social TWICE .... congrats @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026 winners!!!! www.bestmicrofiction.com

finished a new first draft of a looong short story which means i can finally close my research tabs. why am i feeling emotional about this?? goodbye my children

Some exquisite Plumhoff for you @kplumhoff.bsky.social ♥️

one of my all time favorite stories came out yesterday in @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙

it's a beautiful sunday morning. i've had coffee and toast. time to hate afresh on all who've wronged me — thank you for the inspo Despy Boutris @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/poetry/00526...

did you read all my favs and all my reasons why? this was so, so much fun

Just discovering this piece by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social , thanks to @kplumhoff.bsky.social 's Mondettes picks. trampset.org/the-problem-... #FlashInTheFeed

i love it so much -- big shout out to @kaysarahsera.bsky.social for bringing it into my life when i really needed it: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03...

the new @splitlipthemag.bsky.social issue is up and it contains possibly the only good use of AI / predictive text in a story i've ever seen: splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0426... (pls stop sending me AI slop to read in the queue!!!!!)

obsessed with the new @passagesnorth.bsky.social, my road trip story (possibly my favorite vehicle, pun intended, for conflict — let me lock those characters up!!), & the incredible work of my issuemates, including @ericscottryon.bsky.social, @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social & @liamhegarty.bsky.social

!! me on revision, stealing things, and being obsessed with @shaylafrandsen.bsky.social

SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND BITCHES

The latest issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social is here! THANKS to @lynnmundell.bsky.social for publishing my piece! Honoured to be in incredible company. Thanks @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece began. Congrats @damicandrea.bsky.social — stunning artwork! centaurlit.com

Story up in the marvellous Ghost Parachute. Thank you to the creator in chief @brettpribble.bsky.social 🫡🫶

reading BOULDER again (in English this time to prep for hosting club de lectura on it next week) and this paragraph brought me right back to my favorite story from @amystuber.com's collection SAD GROWNUPS. more adult women working at summer camps pls

The Safekeep, which traces how private lives unfold under the long shadow of historical forces, speaks perfectly to our theme for this year - 'The Age Of...' in which we will explore what it means to live in and be shaped by an 'age' and how we, as writers, understand our own age.

come hang out with me AND YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN in Madrid in September!!

i scream, you scream, we all scream for *REDACTED UNTIL FRIDAY*

OH BABY you wanted to come to a @saloneurope.bsky.social event in 2026? we're giving you NINE CHANCES in FEBRUARY!!! i'm HOSTING ONE OF THEM!! DM me or EWS for booking details 💅

popped into a packed house at an open mic here in valencia and invited everyone to @saloneurope.bsky.social's vlc mini salon on feb 11 then listened to my dear friend read about lana del rey. good thursday.

this is such a beautiful issue — i hope you'll spend some time with it this weekend <3

me 🤝 @aniking.bsky.social finding the narrative potential in gay deer READ THEIRS www.broadripplereview.com/post/deer-run