Literary · Uncanny · Speculative Fiction
Amy Kitcher
Fiction from the strange edges of ordinary life.
About
Questions of power, memory, and who gets to interpret the past
Amy Kitcher is a working-class Welsh writer from the South Wales valleys. Her fiction moves between the literary, the uncanny and the speculative, circling back again and again to power, memory, and the strange edges of ordinary life. She holds an MSc in Modern Foreign Languages and an MA in Contemporary War and Peace Studies.
In 2022–23 she was selected for Literature Wales's Representing Wales writers' development programme, mentored by former Children's Laureate Wales Eloise Williams. Her short fiction has appeared in Fairlight Books, Funny Pearls, Lucent Dreaming, Fictive Dream, Dime Show Review, Seize the Press and Trollbreath Magazine.
— Amy KitcherThe Work
Selected Fiction
Trollbreath Magazine — Issue 7, 2026
The Messenger of Budapest
A city's statues fall in love, and an ageing messenger pigeon carries their words between them — a fantasy of Budapest's hidden magic.
Read the story ↗Seize the Press — Issue 13, 2026 · Mature themes
Tabula Rasa
A dystopian story of alien migration and survival, told from the margins of a broken, hungry city.
Read the story ↗Fairlight Books — 2026
New Year's Eve at the Nun's Purse
A comic, warm-hearted tale of a rundown Welsh pub, an old crush, and a will with strings attached.
Read the story ↗Lucent Dreaming — Issue 12, 2023
Butterfly Effect
A folkloric coming-of-age story about a girl whose refusal to be tamed unsettles everyone around her.
Read the story ↗Fictive Dream — 2019
Darkness Brighter Than the Sun
A story about inherited trauma, addiction, and the things a family buries in order to survive.
Read the story ↗Dime Show Review — Flash Fiction, 2019
The Heart Beats Like a Drum
A piece of flash fiction about memory, war, and an old soldier's last act of devotion.
Read the story ↗Funny Pearls — 2019
Gift Ideas for Fantasy Writers
A tongue-in-cheek send-up of fantasy tropes, dressed up as a shopping guide.
Read the story ↗
Recognition
Selected Recognition
Literature Wales — Representing Wales
Selected writer, 2022–23 cohort, mentored by former Children's Laureate Wales Eloise Williams
National Writing Day — Ink Academy
Runner-up, inaugural competition, for the opening chapter of a novel-in-progress
Where the Stories Come From
"The world feels impossibly old and vast, and utterly indifferent."
Amy Kitcher has survived a 6.2 earthquake, been run over crossing the street, and once shared a flat with a ghostly monk. She has watched minke whales in Icelandic fjords, stood by the eternal flames of Azerbaijan's Fire Mountain, camped in the Sahara, and seen the northern lights above her own garden. These are the moments that shape her work.
Read the stories →Praise
What Readers Are Saying
Her mastery of the pen is unquestionable.
Shoshana Groom, Be About It Press — on "Tabula Rasa"
It may be my favourite story… the writing here is fresh and vivid.
Ewan Smith, Waterstones.com — on "Darkness Brighter Than the Sun"
I fell in love with this piece on first read.
Jennifer Reynolds, editor, Trollbreath Magazine — on "The Messenger of Budapest"