Kasia

writer & editor

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

Honored to have been chosen as an honorable mention for gritLIT Festival's short story contest! Big thanks to @gritlitfestival.

[gritLIT Festival @gritlitfestival]

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We're excited to announce the winners of the 2022 gritLIT Short Story Contest!

First Place: "Bleeding Heart" by Nicola Winstanley
Honourable Mention: "What Was Once Wild" by Kasia Merrill
Honourable Mention: "John Mark Martin: A Partial Memoir" by Ioanna Sahas Martin

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

@isahasmartin @gritlitfestival Congratulations to you, too, Ioanna!

[jordan @jordan_stratton]

Government: You owe us money. It’s called taxes.

Me: How much do I owe?

Gov’t: You have to figure that out.

Me: I just pay what I want?

Gov’t: Oh, no we know exactly how much you owe. But you have to guess that number too.

Me: What if I get it wrong?

Gov’t: You go to prison

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

Zombies and treachery aside, @netflix’s Kingdom deserves a watch just for the outfits. I mean....these hats.

[QandA @QandA]

.@rgay on empathy, disaffected men, and disempowered women #QandA

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

"Nicholas and Louisa Solinas, 47 and 29 respectively, were newlyweds honeymooning in Mykonos when they were canceled for a tasteless Instagram caption. Mr. Solinas worked in private equity; Mrs. Solinas was an interior designer/model/DJ."

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"After many close brushes with cancellation, Jeremy Warble, a 30-year-old bartender and drummer, was canceled on Friday after asking exactly zero questions on a Tinder date." https://t.co/d6aCmfptAv

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

"An entire nation drinking from a dirty cup..." - Kurt Vile

Resonating. 🙌

[Emily Temple @knownemily]

I wrote a love letter to the best movie of all time, and my forever idol Kat Stratford: https://t.co/FzvBtpbAQ2

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

This girl is going places

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

https://t.co/BGTDJP7cfX

[Kristen Arnett @Kristen_Arnett]

ah yes writing, that thing i do where i open a word document and then get up and start cleaning my entire house

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

@goodreads Brutal. Exquisite. Glassy. #chronologyofwater #lidiayuknavitch

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

"But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be." - Jenny Offill #WednesdayWisdom

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

Three cheers for #NBAwards author Tommy Orange, whose debut novel, THERE THERE, was today announced as the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award! https://t.co/t2z6kxYKLQ

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

"My thoughts turned to the primitive longings of early man, and I searched in my heart for some remnant of primal wantonness, and since I was looking, I found it."

https://t.co/IQojIUepgb

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

My company is hiring online ESL teachers! Get paid to work from home and read books with adorable kids halfway across the world. #eslteachers #ESL #Reading #Jobs #jobseekers https://t.co/tgd3MSPGyV

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

i thought i was going to have a panic attack while watching this movie...but now i can't stop thinking about it. #upsidedown #raversworstnightmare #CLIMAX

[Climax @ClimaxMovie]

“IT’S THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.” (@Variety) From @A24 and visionary writer-director Gaspar Noé, this is #CLIMAX. Coming Soon.

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

A new fave 😍#ReadMoreWomen #literature #MondayMotivation

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

Join me and writers around the world in the @nycmidnight Short Screenplay Challenge 2016! #screenwriting https://t.co/roYSUchAgy

[Kasia @kasiamerrill]

"I believe we need a cultural shift in who we see as leaders and I believe Baltimore can lead the country in this change. #BlackLivesMatter