Publications

Upcoming

2025

“How to Set the Table,” in Bending Genres, June 2025

2024

“Lost in Wonder,” in Blue Earth Review, Fall 2024.

“November Geese,” in Beautiful Things, November 2024.

“Because the Night,” in Burningword Literary Journal, October 2024.

“Pathway,” in Still Point Arts Quarterly, Fall 2024.

2023

“Stung by Solastalgia,” in EcoTheo Review, Winter 2023.

“Runaway Bunny” in Wrong Turn Lit, December 4, 2023, nominated for Best of the Short Fictions, 2023.

“Down to Dust,” in River Teeth, 25.1, Fall 2023

“Tamarack,” in Rooted 2: Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, an anthology.

“Apology,” in Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, issue 6. (page 128) https://pensivejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Pensive-Issue-6.pdf

2021

“Detroit Salt Mine,” poem in The Michigan Poet, February 2021. https://themichiganpoet.com/portfolio/kit-carlson/

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place,” in The Windhover, Spring 2021.

2020

“Womb,” in Rock and Sling, Spring/Summer 2020

“Father-Mother-God” in Lindenwood Review, Issue 10, 2020. https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lindenwood-review/vol1/iss10/29/

“Chimeras,” in Burningword Literary Journal, April 2020. https://burningword.com/2020/04/chimeras/

“Collared,” in Herstry Blog, March 2020. https://herstryblg.com/theme/2020/3/23/collared

“Dark Angels,” in Little Patuxent Review, Winter 2020

2019

“Evensong,” in The Windhover, August 2019

“What Sadie Knew,” in Open: Journal of Arts and Letters. https://ojalart.com/carlson-flash-cnf/

“Death Lodge,” in Ruminate Blog, May 2019. (defunct as of Winter 2022)

Poems in Leaping Clear, Spring 2019 https://www.leapingclear.org/kit-carlson-poetry

“Sometimes the Dead DO Speak”, Indiana Voice Journal, “The Final Issue,” #41 http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2019/02/essaymemoir-by-kit-carlson-sometimes.html

“In the Otherside,” Wilderness House Literary Review, Winter 2019, https://www.whlreview.com/no-13.4/essay/KitCarlson.pdf

2018

“Remembering(Remembering),” DaCunha Global, (website extinct as of 12/19)

“Miserere,” Bending Genres, issue six, December 2018, https://bendinggenres.com/miserere

“Burning Questions,” Ponder Review, vol. 2, issue 2. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (page 82 in issue 2.2) https://www.muw.edu/images/colleges/as/llp/ponderreview/issues/PonderReviewVol2Iss2.pdf

2016

“Equipping the Next Generations to Speak their Faith Aloud,” Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2016. http://www.anglicantheologicalreview.org/static/pdf/articles/Carlson.pdf

“The Question of Vocation: Or, Learning to Ask the Right Question,” The  Journal of School and Society: An Online Publication of the John Dewey Society, vol. 3, issue 1, pages 12-17, 2016. http://www.johndeweysociety.org/the-journal-of-school-and-society/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2016/04/vol3_2016_schoolsociety_05.pdf

2015

“Sealed,” a short story about baptism, published in Section 8 literary magazine, online version, on September 15, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160826200107/http://www.section8magazine.com/sealed/