Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an award-winning writer and creative freelancer living in Bristol, UK. She is the author of the short fiction collection Cold Toast (Dahlia Books, May 2025) and several books in the field of English Language Teaching and Modern Foreign Languages. She is currently working on a novella with the support of an Arts Council England award.

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Her stories and creative nonfiction have been widely published in print and online literary magazines, including The Forge Literary Magazine, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, The Four Faced Liar, Fractured Lit, Stanchion Magazine, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, and elsewhere. Her work is also published in over twenty print anthologies.

She has won several writing awards including the Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Forge Literary Magazine's Flash Nonfiction competition, Manchester Writing School and Manchester School of Theatre’s QuietManDave Prize, and Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming’s Flash Fiction contest. Her work has also been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been featured on BBC Sounds. She is a reader for the FlashFlood Journal and the American literary journal In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction.

Kathryn has over fifteen years of teaching experience and a postgraduate qualification in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. She runs community-based workshops in creative writing as well as writing for wellbeing and is a freelance trainer for the charity sector working with refugees and people seeking asylum. Thanks to funding from the West of England Combined Authority, she was writer in residence for a refugee charity in 2024
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