Charlie Kondek
@charliekondek.bsky.social
Marketing professional and short story writer from metro Detroit. Kendo enthusiast. Autism dad. Child of God. CharlieKondekWrites.com
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Charlie Kondek
@charliekondek.bsky.social
· Oct 18
My Work
Crime, General Fiction and Niche Writing
I focus on crime stories and what I think of as "crime adjacent," explicitly or implicitly through a Christian lens, explicitly or implicitly about Michigan or...
www.charliekondekwrites.com
So grateful to have work in these publications. www.charliekondekwrites.com/my-work
Could not be more proud and grateful to have a piece at Literary Garage, a publication I have much admired. Hope you'll give this one a read and tell me what you think!
Today we're featuring a sharp, funny, observant, self-aware, & thematically layered story from @charliekondek.bsky.social.
It lives at the intersection of satire, metafiction, & near-future social commentary.
Head over to the Garage to read:
literarygarage.com/sincerely-n-...
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It lives at the intersection of satire, metafiction, & near-future social commentary.
Head over to the Garage to read:
literarygarage.com/sincerely-n-...
🎸📚
Sincerely, N Grsk | Literary Garage
literarygarage.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Could not be more proud and grateful to have a piece at Literary Garage, a publication I have much admired. Hope you'll give this one a read and tell me what you think!
Thrilled and grateful to have a piece in the November issue of @afterdinnerconversation.com. Available at Amazon in print or Kindle, or free on Libby. I'd love it if you checked out this and the rest of this wonderful magazine! a.co/d/bbf60Ra
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thrilled and grateful to have a piece in the November issue of @afterdinnerconversation.com. Available at Amazon in print or Kindle, or free on Libby. I'd love it if you checked out this and the rest of this wonderful magazine! a.co/d/bbf60Ra
"There's two ways to do things, God's way and your way."
"Well between the two I'll take my way. It pays better."
I'm thrilled to have a 5K word piece at A Thin Slice of Anxiety and I'd be grateful if it made its way into your TBR pile. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/fict...
"Well between the two I'll take my way. It pays better."
I'm thrilled to have a 5K word piece at A Thin Slice of Anxiety and I'd be grateful if it made its way into your TBR pile. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/fict...
Fiction: A Simple Exchange
Because Life is too Short to Read Bullshit
www.athinsliceofanxiety.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"There's two ways to do things, God's way and your way."
"Well between the two I'll take my way. It pays better."
I'm thrilled to have a 5K word piece at A Thin Slice of Anxiety and I'd be grateful if it made its way into your TBR pile. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/fict...
"Well between the two I'll take my way. It pays better."
I'm thrilled to have a 5K word piece at A Thin Slice of Anxiety and I'd be grateful if it made its way into your TBR pile. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/07/fict...
Hey, @barronauthor.bsky.social your recent piece at @afterdinnerconversation.com was deeply moving, man. Praised it at the Other Place but had to come over here to do the same! hang on, lemme find the link....
July 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Hey, @barronauthor.bsky.social your recent piece at @afterdinnerconversation.com was deeply moving, man. Praised it at the Other Place but had to come over here to do the same! hang on, lemme find the link....
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I have a new story about getting semis to honk up at @necessaryfiction.com today. And thanks to @bookbent.bsky.social and everyone at Necessary Fiction for giving this one such an awesome home!
Link to the story: necessaryfiction.com/stories/pair...
Link to the story: necessaryfiction.com/stories/pair...
Pair-A-Dice – Necessary Fiction
necessaryfiction.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I loved this story! Wow.
🦝🦝 Trash Cat Lit’s 1st year anniversary issue is out! This awesome issue includes my latest short story, “The Year of Dead Dads.” Check it out!
So grateful to JP Relph for publishing this story and for curating this issue with such care and passion.
The whole issue is a gem!
#AuthorSky #fiction
So grateful to JP Relph for publishing this story and for curating this issue with such care and passion.
The whole issue is a gem!
#AuthorSky #fiction
HERE IT IS! 🦝
Celebrating one year of publishing with this Summer Issue. TWELVE flash and NINE shorts - our biggest issue ever.
Make sure to bookmark both links and get stuck into incredible short fiction 💜
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
Celebrating one year of publishing with this Summer Issue. TWELVE flash and NINE shorts - our biggest issue ever.
Make sure to bookmark both links and get stuck into incredible short fiction 💜
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
July 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I loved this story! Wow.
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Detroit vs. Everybody
Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham on WNBA expansion to Detroit…
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Detroit vs. Everybody
"If anyone ever wrote a novel about advertising she could think of no better title than The Deck." At 5,000ish words it's a little on the longer side, but I'd be grateful if you put it in your queue. www.thebloominonion.com/longform-story
If You're Gonna Make a Mistake — The Bloomin' Onion
Do you want to win or not?
www.thebloominonion.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"If anyone ever wrote a novel about advertising she could think of no better title than The Deck." At 5,000ish words it's a little on the longer side, but I'd be grateful if you put it in your queue. www.thebloominonion.com/longform-story
Beyond excited to be in this anthology! Judy and Superior Shores keep putting out great work and I'm so glad to be a part of it.
Great essay by @charliekondek.bsky.social on Art Taylor's The First Two Pages. #writing @arttaylorwriter.bsky.social arttaylorwriter.com/2025/06/17/t...
The First Two Pages: "Secretly Keith" by Charlie Kondek - Art Taylor
In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers […]
arttaylorwriter.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Beyond excited to be in this anthology! Judy and Superior Shores keep putting out great work and I'm so glad to be a part of it.
Yesss. Looking forward to this, Mike! Trash Cat is a treasure.
🦝🦝 Trash Cat Lit’s 1st year anniversary issue is out! This awesome issue includes my latest short story, “The Year of Dead Dads.” Check it out!
So grateful to JP Relph for publishing this story and for curating this issue with such care and passion.
The whole issue is a gem!
#AuthorSky #fiction
So grateful to JP Relph for publishing this story and for curating this issue with such care and passion.
The whole issue is a gem!
#AuthorSky #fiction
HERE IT IS! 🦝
Celebrating one year of publishing with this Summer Issue. TWELVE flash and NINE shorts - our biggest issue ever.
Make sure to bookmark both links and get stuck into incredible short fiction 💜
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
Celebrating one year of publishing with this Summer Issue. TWELVE flash and NINE shorts - our biggest issue ever.
Make sure to bookmark both links and get stuck into incredible short fiction 💜
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
trashcatlit.com/general-issu...
July 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yesss. Looking forward to this, Mike! Trash Cat is a treasure.
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Absolutely over the moon to have this short (my first!) published, and by the exceptional Trash Cat Lit. Features characters from my WIP novel, so I'm very attached to it! Love, lust, betrayal, regret, what's not to like (don't answer that, I'm too fragile) trashcatlit.com/in-the-fulln...
July 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Absolutely over the moon to have this short (my first!) published, and by the exceptional Trash Cat Lit. Features characters from my WIP novel, so I'm very attached to it! Love, lust, betrayal, regret, what's not to like (don't answer that, I'm too fragile) trashcatlit.com/in-the-fulln...
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
SLM is PROUD to be a paying market ✨ So the biggest THANK YOU to those who tip during our TIP JAR Months...like April!
Donations help us pay our contributors, Submittable fees, and printing costs 💕
Donations help us pay our contributors, Submittable fees, and printing costs 💕
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
SLM is PROUD to be a paying market ✨ So the biggest THANK YOU to those who tip during our TIP JAR Months...like April!
Donations help us pay our contributors, Submittable fees, and printing costs 💕
Donations help us pay our contributors, Submittable fees, and printing costs 💕
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Please, please, please, I need your help!
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Please, please, please, I need your help!
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
Does anyone want to not do their day job and instead talk about books, stories, movies and writing? hahaha
April 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Does anyone want to not do their day job and instead talk about books, stories, movies and writing? hahaha
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Bicyclist and roller skater on the Dequindre Cut, a rails to trails bike and walking path just east of downtown Detroit. #Photography #StreetPhotography #nightphotography #Detroit #DequindreCut #GoldenHour
April 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Bicyclist and roller skater on the Dequindre Cut, a rails to trails bike and walking path just east of downtown Detroit. #Photography #StreetPhotography #nightphotography #Detroit #DequindreCut #GoldenHour
I'm working with Leah now and she's terrific. Give her a follow!
I’m here to make authors’ lives easier by posting:
- writing craft tips
-editing advice
-writing resources
- creating community.
If you’re also about those things, follow along!
#writingcommunity
- writing craft tips
-editing advice
-writing resources
- creating community.
If you’re also about those things, follow along!
#writingcommunity
April 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'm working with Leah now and she's terrific. Give her a follow!
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Want to fill your ears with a wide-ranging discussion of crime fiction, the writing life, and more? I'm on WRBH New Orleans talking everything from writing noir to the inspiration of books like 'Love & Bullets'! ( @shotgunhoney.com ) #amwriting
soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingr...
soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingr...
Writer's Forum: Nick Kolakowski
Originally aired on February 25th, 2025.
soundcloud.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Want to fill your ears with a wide-ranging discussion of crime fiction, the writing life, and more? I'm on WRBH New Orleans talking everything from writing noir to the inspiration of books like 'Love & Bullets'! ( @shotgunhoney.com ) #amwriting
soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingr...
soundcloud.com/wrbhreadingr...
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
In my latest Substack, I’m talking about how taking a technique from the movie “Seven” (the writing of it! not killing people in odd ways!) can help you give your characters an interesting tension and inner life. #amwriting
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Building Your Fictional Characters' Core: Lessons from 'Se7en' and More
Giving your characters a little inner tension can make them far more compelling.
substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In my latest Substack, I’m talking about how taking a technique from the movie “Seven” (the writing of it! not killing people in odd ways!) can help you give your characters an interesting tension and inner life. #amwriting
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ooh, wee, if you missed this elegiac noir at @reckonreview.bsky.social by @garivers.bsky.social , treat yourself to it! reckonreview.com/song-of-the-...
SONG OF THE CONFESSOR | Fiction By G. A. Rivers – Reckon Review
reckonreview.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Ooh, wee, if you missed this elegiac noir at @reckonreview.bsky.social by @garivers.bsky.social , treat yourself to it! reckonreview.com/song-of-the-...
I'm reading it now. It's great.
DARK NEON & DIRT by @thomastrang.bsky.social pits a master thief against a determined cop in a propulsive, action-packed story with all kinds of twists and turns. Add in the LA backdrop, where everyone’s working a hustle, and you’ve got one helluva debut novel. Recommended.
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm reading it now. It's great.
I've killed a creative director. Sorry, a creative director is killed in this 2,000 word short story that I am honored to see published at a much admired crime journal. I hope you'll give it a read - and that's no April Fool's joke. all-due-respect.blogspot.com/2025/04/issu...
Issue #86 -- April 2025
All Due Respect, Crime Fiction, ADRCrimeFiction, Noir, Outlaw, Hardcore
all-due-respect.blogspot.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've killed a creative director. Sorry, a creative director is killed in this 2,000 word short story that I am honored to see published at a much admired crime journal. I hope you'll give it a read - and that's no April Fool's joke. all-due-respect.blogspot.com/2025/04/issu...
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Writing about the worst people in the world means you have to have a puppy sitting on your shoulder at all times so you don’t go insane
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Writing about the worst people in the world means you have to have a puppy sitting on your shoulder at all times so you don’t go insane
Reposted by Charlie Kondek
Submissions are OPEN! 📥 If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to give your work a home. 🖌️
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - Blue Villa
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Content: Our publication welcomes a diverse array of literary & artistic genres. We accept short stories, poetry, essays, & visual art. While we announce specific content calls p...
bluevilla.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Submissions are OPEN! 📥 If you’re spending your night editing that poem or short story, why not send it our way? We’d love to give your work a home. 🖌️
What has two thumbs and just saw The Conversation (1974) for the first time? How could I have gone so long without seeing this??
March 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What has two thumbs and just saw The Conversation (1974) for the first time? How could I have gone so long without seeing this??