Thank you, Bronwen!

Thank you for giving these micros a great home!

Kip Knott ~ Three Stories - New World Writing Quarterly The Flower Monger The local news informs me this morning that they found his lifeless body curled beneath a multi-colored blanket of flowers lying atop a

New work from Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social! Up now in our Spring 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the third story. Click this link to check out the other two: newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the first story. Click this link to check out the other two:
newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

Thank you to everyone at @newworldwriting.bsky.social for kicking off their new issue with three microfiction stories by me. Here’s the first story. Click this link to check out the other two:
newworldwriting.net/kip-knott-th...

#NationalPoetryMonth is in full effect now!!! Are you writing yet? For our second #FollowFriday, we want to highlight some of our favorite poets:

📝 Sara Matson (@saramatson.bsky.social)
📝 Kip Knott (@kiptain.bsky.social)
📝 Jill Bergantz (@jillbergantz.bsky.social)

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Thank you so much for this! You made my week!

Here is an ekphrastic persona poem in the voice of Andrew Wyeth based on one of his “Helga” paintings, “Easter Sunday, 1975.” Thank you to tiny wren lit for publishing my collection of “Helga” poems in the chapbook ONE PROMISE OF GREEN back in 2023.

Thank you for including this in the issue! I really appreciate it!

Splinters — Ghost Parachute Your letter consists of many fat letters explaining your fear of butter. My life, you tell me, is a meal of many courses I can’t bear to choke down. Your confession to a fixation on the parish priest ...

Read "Splinters" written by @kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"Your letter consists of many fat letters explaining your fear of butter."

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Thank you, Brooksie! That means a lot. You created the perfect artwork for this piece. Thank you for your thoughtfulness with this story and with the other stories of mine you’ve illustrated. You’re amazing!

Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social for including my story “Splinters” in the new issue of Ghost Parachute. And thank you to @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social for the perfect artwork! Click here to check out the entire issue: ghostparachute.com

Really proud to have my new photo “Break Out” in the 10th Anniversary issue of @inkinthirds.bsky.social. Check out highlights from this amazing issue by going to inkinthirds.org.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 3 years since I lost my best buddy, Nestor. I went three months before I brought home my new puppy, Whitman. As I was going through Whitman’s papers, I was stunned to learn he was born the exact day Nestor had died. I guess some things are meant to be.

CELEBRATE the prerelease & beautiful cover of Girl, Drowning by Dana Knott, a collection of poems inspired by Elizabeth Siddal, a pre-Raphaelite model, muse, poet, & artist. Read about & preorder your copy at @yellowarrowpub.bsky.social at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/girl-drowning-paperback.

Many thanks to Benjamin Drevlow for giving this piece a great home in the amazing BULL.
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Thank you!

85 Seconds to Midnight by Kip Knott We are born out of nothingness,the emptiness of the universe.All of us know this void well.We spend our days filling itwith something more than light,something more than darkness,somet…

Thank you to the editors of @januaryhouselit.bsky.social for accepting my poem “85 Seconds to Midnight” for their upcoming fall issue. Check out January House Literary Journal here: januaryhouselit.com/2026/02/23/8...

Before I Forget for Kory Knott (1969-1974) Last night I found a memory of you like a long-forgotten winter jacket discovered while cleaning out a closet. I slipped it off its rusting hanger and draped it over my s…

Thank you to @eunoiareview.bsky.social for being such a kind supporter of my writing over the years. Here are links to two new poems that dropped today:

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Thank you to Aaron Burch for the skull and for including my story “Partly Cloudy to Mostly Haunted” in @havehashad.com. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/par...

Thank you to Natalie Welsh for including my poem “Carrion” in the new issue of @syncopationlit.bsky.social. Click this link to read the entire issue:
syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/volume-5-iss...

One Bullet for Annie by Kip Knott Your mother named you Annie after Annie Oakley. I remember you’d wear a fringed and pleated skirt and a flat cowboy hat with the same kind of six-pointed star Annie had pinned to her brim whenever we ...

Here’s a complicated love story for complicated times. Many thanks to @havehashad.com for originally publishing this story back in 2021. ❤️ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/one...

Really pleased the my microfiction story “Jump Cuts” found a home in the new issue of Bright Flash Literary Review. brightflash1000.com/2026/02/08/j...

Thank you to 50-Word Stories for publishing my piece “Memento Mori” today. #microfiction #flashfiction #prosepoetry

Charitable Donation — Ghost Parachute He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did. It’s not as if the sun suddenly clouded over or the day turned int...

Read "Charitable Donation" written by
@kiptain.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did."

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Your artwork is perfect for this story! Thank you!

Pill-White Light by Kip Knott naql   CC Pill-White Light ​     This isn’t the first sleepless night Doug has snuck out of the house and into the darkness, but he knows it is the last night. After more than forty years in...

So glad that @antiheroinchic.bsky.social is back! And VERY proud that my story “Pill-White Light” is included in the new issue! Check out the full issue here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/pill-wh...

#flashfiction #microfiction

Friends, it's been a while, but here we are with another beautiful, heart-rending issue. My gratitude runs deep to all of you for filling this space with your brilliant and hopeful voices. The light is so hard to find, but I think you'll find some of it here.

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Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social for including my story “Charitable Donation” in the new issue of Ghost Parachute. And thank you to @brooksiebooks.bsky.social for the incredible artwork! Click here to check out the entire issue: ghostparachute.com