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Young International Authors in Print and now on The Story Tree Podcast

Jun 7, 20203 min read

Young International Authors in Print and now on The Story Tree Podcast

Find some of our amazing short stories by kids for kids featured this June 2020 at The Story Tree Podcast. The Story Tree brings new and...

May Winners of our Contests Announced, (and in case you missed it... )

Polly Alice McCann

Jun 7, 20206 min read

May Winners of our Contests Announced, (and in case you missed it... )

All of this year's winners so far featured in past blogs and newsletters are listed below but we wanted to gather them here together to...

Our April Poet of the Month & March Spotlight Poet wins 2020 Vision Award

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

May 11, 20204 min read

Our April Poet of the Month & March Spotlight Poet wins 2020 Vision Award

Congratulations to our April poets. Gloria Heffernan is our April winning poet of the month or her submission to our Rainy Day Poetry...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

May 11, 20202 min read

Button Poetry Contest Winner!

Congratulations to our March poet of the Month. Her poem "The Game Event" submitted for our tiny poetry prompt was selected by our judges...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Mar 31, 20203 min read

Spotlight Poet for March: Gary Beaumier

Our Spotlight poet for March is Gary Beaumier. A graduate of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in English Literature, he has been a long...

Teen Short Story winner, now student at UC Berkeley.

Polly Alice McCann

Mar 9, 20209 min read

Teen Short Story winner, now student at UC Berkeley.

Amrita Bhasin is passionate about creative writing. At eighteen years old, and a student at Menlo-Atherton High School in California, she...

Poet of the Month: Winner of our Love Poetry Contest

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Mar 6, 20202 min read

Poet of the Month: Winner of our Love Poetry Contest

Deborah Rosch Eifert is a poet and clinical psychologist. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the literary publication,...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Feb 18, 20202 min read

Poet Spotlight: Steven Sassmann

Steven Sassmann is the author of nine books of poems and poetry. His most recent released Spring 2019 from Spartan Press. Published in...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Feb 10, 20207 min read

Short Story Winner January Contest

Swan Song by Caroline Sidney is our February Contest Winner! Congratulations! Her story is short at only 4400 words yet her character, ...

Dark Horse Entry, First Place Short Story Winner for January, Katie Sakanai

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Feb 10, 20206 min read

Dark Horse Entry, First Place Short Story Winner for January, Katie Sakanai

First place winner of our Short Story Contest for January goes to a dark horse entry that gave us chills for it's perfect rendering of an...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Feb 10, 20202 min read

Matter of Perspective

Our first place winning poet of the month for January's Dark Poetry is @JamesPhKotsybar Jim Kotsybar has been called the bard of Mars...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Oct 28, 20192 min read

PO-etry Festival News and Opportunities

We are so thankful to everyone who came out to celebrate our one year anniversary and the launch of our first seven poetry books! So what...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Oct 23, 20193 min read

2nd Annual Paper Poet in Residence

In 2016 TL Sanders performed a poem we later named “Paper Poet” at Paper Birch Landing Art Gallery’s third ever art opening in honor of...

#inktober Insights with Illustrator Hayley Patterson, Tales from the Goldilocks Zone

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Oct 9, 201911 min read

#inktober Insights with Illustrator Hayley Patterson, Tales from the Goldilocks Zone

The Goldilocks Zone is new voices in short story, the first anthology or short story collection by Flying Ketchup Press. ebook ISBN:...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Sep 5, 20196 min read

Fountainverse Poetry Festival 2019

A FountainVerse Poetry Festival event and open mic hosted by Flying Ketchup Press will be celebrated this October 12th from 11 am to 2 pm...

One year Anniversary of Flying Ketchup Press-- the Backstory with Polly Alice McCann

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Aug 5, 201910 min read

One year Anniversary of Flying Ketchup Press-- the Backstory with Polly Alice McCann

What’s your story? My story has two covers like a book. On one side of the coin, I’ve been a professor at a college, a former art...

Hayley Patterson

Jul 27, 20195 min read

Pixel Zoom in with NY Illustrator Hayley Patterson, Tales from the Goldilocks zone

Like most artists, art is something that has always been a part of my life. As a small child, I scribbled in coloring books and smeared...

Poet brings it! in One Man Show-- Hybrid Lyrical Screen Play at Fringe Fest KC

Polly Alice McCann

Jul 10, 20192 min read

Poet brings it! in One Man Show-- Hybrid Lyrical Screen Play at Fringe Fest KC

KC Fringe Fest: During this multi-character solo show, Poet T.L. Sanders will transport you on a lyrical journey like you’ve never...

Tea with Author Illustrator Danielle D. Williams

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Jul 2, 20193 min read

Tea with Author Illustrator Danielle D. Williams

How did you get started in art/ illustration? What is your background? I started drawing pictures when I was in elementary school,...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Jun 3, 20191 min read

Issue 2-- Flying Ketchup Press

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Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Mar 8, 20191 min read

Fresh off the Press & Podcasts

Tomorrow is our first event, a Book Store Bash and fundraiser for KKFI at Steele's Used Books in North Kansas City from 10:30 am to 6 pm....

Author, Spoken Word Artist, TL Sanders creates something "kNew"

Polly Alice McCann

Mar 2, 20192 min read

Author, Spoken Word Artist, TL Sanders creates something "kNew"

What characterizes TL Sanders' spoken word poetry is his affinity for sound. He choreographs sound the way an artist chooses color—and...

Polly Alice McCann, Managing Editor

Feb 22, 20192 min read

What's that Sound? The Journey to Read.

LeAnne Litka's new book series for children transitioning to phonemic awareness emerged from her personal journey as an artist and a...

Tiffany White

Dec 17, 20184 min read

Guest Blogger, Tiffany White: How to find Beta Readers & Critique Partners

In the land of writing, it is so important to have your work read by others so you can get feedback and improve. And no, I’m not talking...