Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an award-winning writer and creative freelancer, living in Bristol, UK. Her short fiction and lyric essays have been widely published in online and print literary journals, including The Forge Literary Magazine, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Stanchion Magazine, Centaur 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).

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She is currently working on an Arts Council England funded novella, and her debut collection of flash fiction will be published by Dahlia Publishing in spring, 2025. 

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Thanks to funding from the West of England Combined Authority, she is writer in residence for refugee charity Aid Box Community.
 

Kathryn has won the Bath Flash Fiction Award, The Forge Literary Magazine's Flash Nonfiction competition, the Manchester Writing School and Manchester School of Theatre QuietManDave Prize, and Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming’s Flash Fiction contest. She has placed or shortlisted in numerous other writing contests, including, WOW! Women On Writing's Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, the SmokeLong Quarterly Summer Fiction competition, Scientific American’s Quantum Shorts Flash Fiction contest, Flash Frog's 'Blue Frog Contest', New Flash Fiction Review's Flash Fiction prize, the Bath Flash Award, Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award, and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.

Her work has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, as well as nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize, and her stories 'No Words' and 'It's Not What Happens to You' have been showcased on BBC Sounds. She is currently a reader for FlashFlood Journal and the American literary journal In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction.

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.