Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an award-winning writer and creative freelancer, living in Bristol, UK. She is represented by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency. Her debut flash fiction collection Cold Toast (Dahlia Books) was a Republic of Consciousness Prize Book of the Month and shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award. Her novella, written with the support of an Arts Council England Award, is forthcoming with Verve Books.

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Her writing has been widely published in print and online literary magazines, including The Four Faced Liar, The Forge Literary Magazine, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, Fractured Lit, Stanchion Magazine, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Fictive Dream, Splonk, The Disappointed Housewife, Bending Genres, Paris Lit Up and elsewhere. Her stories also appear in over twenty print anthologies.

She has won awards including The Forge Literary Magazine's Flash Nonfiction competition, Manchester Writing School’s QuietManDave Prize, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming’s Flash Fiction contest, and was Highly Commended in The Four Faced Liar’s competition for Creative Non-Fiction, judged by Tim MacGabhann. Her work has been selected for the prestigious Wigleaf Top 50, as well as nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Kathryn has over twenty years of teaching experience in university and community settings, and a postgraduate diploma in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. She regularly runs workshops and has been invited to judge for Leicester Writes Short Story Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the WestWord Prize.  In 2024 she was writer in residence for a refugee charity, funded by West of England Combined Authority.

She has developed extensive teaching and learning materials online, as well as authored Student Books and Teacher Books in the field of English Language Teaching and Modern Foreign Languages, published with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, amongst others.
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