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. 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/nominations from The Her International Film Festival, Chicago Indie Film Awards, Tokyo Women Film Festival, and Golden Pen Script Awards among others.
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. She teaches workshops, in-person and online, consults, and interviews creatives for special events.
She is a Certified Yoga Teacher (200 hr), an occasional painter, and the artist behind #FlashCardsbyKQA, mini-stories with maximalist impact. She still doesn’t know how to whistle.
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
Kelly Q. Anderson 