Kyra Kondis
let's tell some stories.

Creative Writing & Publications

Fiction 

Loose Ends (The Hopkins Review)

The Powers That Be (Pinch)

Origin Story (Fractured Lit)

The Reality Star Gets Her Start on a Dating Show (Okay Donkey)

The Day the Birds Came (Pithead Chapel | Selected for the Best Microfiction 2020 | Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2020)

Becoming (Cheap Pop Lit)

Precautionary Tale (print, the Northwest Review, Spring/Summer 2021 issue)

In Memoriam and Author’s Note (Craft)

When You Become a Ghost (Wigleaf | Winner of the Mythic Picnic Prize for Fiction)

A Series of Events (No Contact)

Good and Bad (Atticus Review)

Triptych (Pithead Chapel)

Places in my Neighborhood I Take John Cheever to That Also Happen to Have Food at Them (Necessary Fiction)

If It Were You (Matchbook | Finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction | Nominated for the Best Small Fictions 2020)

What to Do When Your Garden is Girls and Yellow Room (Peatsmoke | Nominated for Best of the Net 2020)

I Wouldn’t Give Up (Lost Balloon)

Relative Probability (Barren Magazine)

As Seen on TV (X-Ray Literary Magazine)

How to Get By (Jellyfish Review)

The Last Date on Earth (honey & lime | Longlist Finalist for the Wigleaf Top 50 2020)

Family Friends (Five on the Fifth)

On The Edge of the Woods (Maudlin House)

The First Two (Belletrist Magazine | Also available in print via Submittable)

The Way Things Are (Synaesthesia Magazine | Nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize)

Non-fiction & Blog

14 Short Stories You Can Read For Free Online Literally Right Now (And Will Actually Want To) (Buzzfeed, 2020)

Conversation & Creation: Four Fiction Authors on their COVID-Era Writing Process (So to Speak Journal, 2020)

The Independent Bookstore as a Community: A Conversation With Old Town Books’ Jen Cheng (So to Speak Journal, 2020)

Letter from the Editor (So to Speak Journal, 2020)

Understanding, Tolerance, and Human Nature: Carol Mitchell Talks Character (Mason MFA Blog, 2018)

Tim Barzditis on Surprise, Curiosity, and Craft (Mason MFA Blog, 2018)

Rachel Purdy: Travel, Connection, and Coffee (Mason MFA Blog, 2018)

Not writing, but maybe still counts? Discussing writing flash fiction on the Just the Gist Please podcast (2019)

Poetry

Four Poems (After the Pause, 2018)