Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is a prize-winning writer and creative freelancer, living in Bristol, UK. Her short fiction and essays have been widely published in online and print literary journals, including The Forge Literary Magazine, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, Fractured Lit, Splonk, Fictive Dream, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, South Florida Poetry Journal, Leon Literary Review, Paris Lit Up, Underground Overground Magazine and elsewhere. Her work also appears or is forthcoming in over twenty print anthologies, most recently the award-winning ‘Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness’ (ELJ Editions, 2023).
She is currently working on an Arts Council England funded novella, and her debut collection of flash fiction will be published in spring, 2025.
Thanks to funding from the West of England Combined Authority, she is writer in residence for refugee charity Aid Box Community.
Kathryn is the winner of The Forge Literary Magazine's competition for Flash Nonfiction, The Manchester Writing School and Manchester School of Theatre QuietManDave Prize, and Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming’s Flash Fiction prize, as well as placing in several other writing contests. She has twice been Runner-up in WOW! Women On Writing's Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest and a finalist in the SmokeLong Quarterly Summer Fiction contest, Flash Frog's 'Blue Frog Contest' and for New Flash Fiction Review's Flash Fiction prize. In 2024, her story 'Entanglement' made the Top 10 shortlist of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction contest, organised in partnership with 'Scientific American'.
She has listed and been highly commended in the prestigious Bath Flash Fiction Award and shortlisted in the Edinburgh Flash Fiction contest, New Zealand's Micro Madness contest, and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her stories 'No Words' and 'It's Not What Happens to You' have been showcased on BBC Sounds.
In 2023, her story ‘Electric Storm’ was selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and in 2024 'Roaring Twenties' made the Wigleaf Longlist, Her work has also been nominated for Ellipsis Zine's Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize. She was a reader for the Welkin Prize and is currently a reader for the American literary journal 'In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction' and for FlashFlood Journal 2024.
Besides fiction, she writes ELT textbooks, teacher’s books and online teaching materials, runs community-based workshops in creative writing and writing for wellbeing, and is a freelance trainer for the charity sector working with refugees and people seeking asylum.
