Trust Issues has a cover! Things are beginning to happen with my new short story collection, Trust Issues. We now know what the cover will look like! I did a final round of edits and turned it in yesterday. My editor says I can share the cover, and that Cornerstone Press plans to have the…
News
Sleeping Sickness: a childhood memory
Link to “Sleeping Sickness” that Kimberly Parish Davis wrote and that was just published by Well Read Magazine
Girl in Flight by Cat Buchanan
A book review that kim wrote for cat buchanan of her new memoir, Girl in Flight. Kim mat Cat at the Frankfurt bookfair, in October, 2024.
Before Hurricane Helene
Kim’s impressions of Asheville, North Carolina, days before Hurricane Helene decimated the area.
Cornerstone Press to Publish K. P. Davis’ Stories
I signed a contract for a short story collection with Cornerstone Press.
“Engineering the Apocalypse”
Many thanks to Mandy Haynes and Well Read Magazine for publishing my story, “Engineering the Apocalypse.” What a nice thing to wake up to first thing on New Year’s Day 2024. This story is one I wrote initiallly for a flash fiction contest, and while it did well in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition…
Working with Small Presses
Greater Denton Arts Coucil400 East Hickory, Patterson Appleton Arts CenterDenton, TexasNovember 4, 2023, 11AM Working with Small Presses will be the topic of a talk to be given by Kimberly Davis tomorrow. New authors today face a lot of choices. Should they seek an agent? How hard is that? Should they try to find a…
Banned Books
It is banned books week, and though it comes around every year, this year, it hurts. There are so very many books being “banned.” You have to ask yourself, who is doing all this banning and for what reason? What are they afraid of? That our children might learn to think? That they might be…
TACWT23
Who is TACWT? I have just returned from TACWT 23. That stands for the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, and next year, I’ll post that as TACW 24. The name of the organization isn’t changing, just the name of our EVENT, since we hope to attract some new writers to the organization. It is…
One of my oldest stories
“The Messenger” Many thanks to Michael Simms at Vox Populi for selecting this story for republication. (To read the story, click the link above.) I’m pretty sure I started writing it in 1976, in one of those headlong panics the night before a paper or story is due. I would have been 16, and I…