Hello there.
Kelly Q. Anderson is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, and artist that aims to unsettle you. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Atticus Review, Stanchion Zine, and more. Her specialty is short form: micro, flash fiction/ nonfiction, and hybrid work. In 2022, she was awarded a 1st Prize Fellowship for Flash Fiction/ Nonfiction with The Porches (Virginia), and she served as a writer-in-residence at The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow (Arkansas), and at A.I.R. Studio Paducah (Kentucky). Her work has been installed for public art, anthologized, and adapted for music and short film.
In Summer 2024, her flash fiction story That Old Beautiful Love completed production, directed by Maggie Meiners. The short film premiered at the Midwest Film Festival in May 2025 at Chicago Cultural Center, and received selections from The Her International Film Festival, Chicago Indie Film Awards, Tokyo Women Film Festival, and Golden Pen Script Awards.
Ms. Anderson is a screenwriter and continues to write short films while drafting her first major motion picture CONVERSATIONS WITH CONDIMENTS based on her flash fiction story of the same name published in 2023 (Meaningful Conflicts, Windy City Publishers). She is currently in pre-production for DOLLY’S HAND ON MINE (script and original story by Anderson), re-teaming her with Director Maggie Meiners.
Ms. Anderson holds two degrees from the University of Iowa and further studied at StoryStudio, Northwestern University, and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She teaches workshops, in-person and online, as well as moderates panels and interviews creatives for special events.
She is a Certified Yoga Teacher (200 hr) and the artist behind #FlashCardsbyKQA, mini-stories with maximalist impact.
Her work has been anthologized in the following books:
Turning Points (Windy City Publishers, 2021)
Capsule Stories, (Capsule Stories, 2021)
Meaningful Conflicts (Windy City Publishers, 2023)
Genres & Art
Flash Fiction / CNF
Micro Memoir
Photography & Painting
Screenwriting
Poetry
Public Art
Academia & Study
University of Iowa, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
StoryStudio
The Writer’s Loft
eCornell
Off Campus Writers’ Workshop
Northwestern University Summer Writing Conference
The Porches: Fellow
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow: Writer-in-Residence
Ragdale
A.I.R. Studio Paducah: Artist-in-Residence
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