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), which was selected as Book of the Month by the Republic of Consciousness Prize, in partnership with Queen Mary University, London. She has also authored 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 Forge Literary Magazine's Flash Nonfiction competition, Manchester Writing School and Manchester School of Theatre’s QuietManDave Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming’s Flash Fiction contest, and her piece ‘The Ewe and the Lamb’ was recently Highly Commended in The Four Faced Liar’s competition for Creative Non-Fiction. Her work has also been selected for the Wigleaf Top Fifty 2023 and 2025, nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize, and her stories have been broadcast on BBC Sounds. She has run workshops and sat on panels at a number of literary festivals and been invited to judge for Leicester Writes Short Story Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the WestWord Prize.
Kathryn has over twenty years of teaching experience in university and community settings, and a postgraduate qualification in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. She currently 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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