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Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying $100.

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"I asked myself if there was one design detail to define the birth mother’s house and decided on linoleum...The details filled in from there." @DBrewerHarris is this week's featured author
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Smoke & Mirrors with Dana Brewer Harris - SmokeLong Quarterly

In Victorian floriography, black-eyed Susans carry meanings of hope and encouragement. Flowers feel like important elements in your story: the blooms, title, ending line, and human descriptions...

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Two new editors starting today
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WE HAVE BIG NEWS! "Beginning January 1, 2023 we will begin paying $100 per narrative. Submitting to and reading SmokeLong will always be free." —Christopher Allen. Read more here!
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It’s @Christopher_All ’s birthday! Happy birthday to our much-loved editor-in-chief. Send him many otters. ❤️🦦
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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, competition/submission fees, membership, critiques, books—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like and share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose.
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Also, we have BIG FAT NEWS. We are now a paying market!! From here on out, as long as funds permit, we will be able to pay our contributors $25/story.() Live footage from our editorial offices when we found out the news:
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It's FLASHGIVING TIME AGAIN! Like this Tweet to win $200 in the books of your choice! RT to double your chances. RTs of RTs also eligible. Ends at midnight EST on Wednesday 23 so we can give the books on Thanksgiving. Share the flash love.
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OH OKAY we're too excited for further mysteriousness...Announcing the SMOKELONG QUARTERLY COMEDY PRIZE 2021! Open Aug 1. Word limit: 782. Font: visible. Entry $7 (free day for low-income writers). Previously published: eligible. Four stories win $400 each.
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We are beyond thrilled to announce The Harry Ransom Center ( @ransomcenter ) at the University of Texas at Austin has established the first curated collection of flash fiction works in the United States.
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We are OPEN. Paying $100.
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Drumroll, please...announcing THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO COMPETITION 2023. Its friends call it The Mikey. It pays a lot of cash for a small but beautiful number of words. Coming to your laptops in August. Get those tiny stories ready...
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We’re so happy to be welcoming Amber Sparks as our guest editor for Issue 72. Send her your shiniest work. We’re looking for flash fiction/flash CNF. Issue 71 with guest ed Steve Edwards is being polished up ready for March. We’re excited for you to read what we’ve been reading.
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We are now open to flash cnf & hybrid narratives!!!!! As long as you stay under 1,000 words, we want your stories, no matter how you want to tell them.
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A Moment of Truth - SmokeLong Quarterly

I have a suspicion. I think some of you have not been completely truthful with us–well truthful maybe but not truthful. We suspect, or maybe it’s just me, that a few (thousand) of you have occasion...

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We are *very* excited to share that we can now pay $50 per story! You know what to do 👇
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We are (as always) open and looking for stories. Send us your fiction/non-fiction/hybrids under 1000 words! Free to submit; paying $100 on publication. Fast turnaround. Now reading for the March issue. Quack.
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It's COVER REVEAL TIME! Issue 79 will be out in the world on Monday! Our gratitude to Guest Editor @TheDenneMichele , to our family of staff and Fellows and our interviewers, to the eight incredible writers featured this quarter, and to everyone who submitted or supported us.
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Please join us in welcoming recent additions to our staff team, the incredible @aefeden , @brendanwriting , and @erinjvachon !💛
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Here are the finalists for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Out of over 1,700 entries these stories stayed with our editors. Huge congratulations to these twelve writers, who are each awarded at least $100. They are all winners. Top three announced soon.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Finalists! - SmokeLong Quarterly

What a challenge the last few months have been. We read more than 1700 micros to come up with our lists–long and short–of amazing, yet tiny narratives. Once again, thank you to everyone who entered,...

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⚡️🎉⭐️IT'S TIME! So many wonderful stories. So much reading and discussion. We're delighted to announce that the First Prize in The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 goes to "Hey Lisa I Hope You Like" by Sara Hills⭐️🎉⚡️ @sarahillswrites #TheMikey
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We’re nearly set up! We have so many fun things for you. Booth 1402.
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It’s cover reveal time! The 12 wonderful stories of Issue 81 will be before your very eyes tomorrow, Monday 18th. What a treat we have in store for you.
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Announcing the SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellows July-December 2023! Welcome to @elissafield Sharon Lin @JennyStalter @DawnSteffler ⚡️
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Announcing the Finalists for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022! Congratulations to Marcus Tan, Scott Pomfret, Luke Sutherland, Oyinkansola Sofela, Noémi Scheiring-Oláh, Amy Cipolla Barnes, Jack Bedrosian, Pat Jameson, Alexandra Karaim, and Lisa Thornton. 🎉🎉🎉
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IT'S HERE. From over 1,700 entries, we present the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest Longlist: (Please remember that anonymous judging is still in progress—do feel free to shout about being on the longlist, but please do not identify your story) #TheMikey
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly

Over the last two and a half months we have read more than 1700 micros to arrive at the following list of impressive entries. All of these narratives brought something unique and compelling to the...

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Issue 72 of SLQ is out on Monday! Our gratitude to Guest Editor Amber Sparks, our contributors and artists, our Readers in Residence and our whole staff team. It takes a village to make a journal.
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We had the BEST time at the U.K. Flash Fiction Festival. Here’s Christopher and Helen with their karaoke balloon arch, Farhana singing, and Patricia and Flash Fellow Fiona hanging with SmokeLong Fitness crew. We LOVED seeing, writing and singing with you all. Till next year! 🎤⚡️
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Announcing our Best Microfictions nominations! Congratulations, @erinjvachon , @lumchanmfa , @Dango_Ramen , Andrew Graham Martin, Morgan Harlow, and @DianeGotAuthor ! 🎉🎉🎉
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THE WINNER OF THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO CONTEST! 🌟⚡️🎉🍾Undergrowth by @MelissaBowers_ #TheMikey
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Undergrowth - SmokeLong Quarterly

He is three years old and thinks the word for plant is planet. I should correct him, but I don’t, because I suspect it won’t last—the same way brefkast and sank you sprouted from his mouth for months...

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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022 #TheSmokey is in full swing! This glittering prize is only awarded every two years. The Stuff of Legend. We're reading entries and choosing our gowns for the ceremony right now. Closing date: Nov 15.
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We are always open and always free to submit! We pay $100 on publication for flash fiction and flash CNF under 1000 words.
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Know what this is…? It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWNN🎶🎵🎸First prize $2500. Second $1000. Third $500. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the special competition issue in December 2022. CLOSING SOON. Free entry for anyone in need of it. Send us your story!
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Announcing the results of the competitions from #ASmokeLongSummer . The standard was PHENOMENALLY high. Thank you so much to everyone who took part.
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What's that? Our first-ever #flashfiction contest? You heard right! We're celebrating our 15th birthday with 15 Weeks, $1500, 15 Winners. Starting 2/5. Will you win the Smokey?
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THE WINNERS OF THE SMOKELONG QUARTERLY AWARD FOR FLASH FICTION! 1st prize: Marcus Tan @marcusytan for “Emergency Contact”. 2nd prize: Oyinkansola Sofela @oyinkansolaso for “Remembrance”. 3rd prize: Scott Pomfret @Bostonseanachie for “What We Always Carry With Us”.
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In case you didn't know, we are a paying market and will always be free to read and free to submit your work to (except for competitions, but then we also offer free entry for people who lack the funds).
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LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE. It’s the cover reveal for Issue 76, which ready to drop tomorrow. We have some incredible work to share with you. GET READY…
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This is our EIC, @Christopher_All . Aww. He’s been a flash fiction editor for many years, published 100+stories, is in Best Small Fictions, Norton anthology 2023, and has judged loads of flash comps. He is the nicest. And he’s teaching a Zoom intro to flash
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Awwwwww this is so nice! Thank you. We love you too.❤️❤️❤️
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ITS TIME. Congratulations TOP 5 LITMAGS OF 2023💫 @TBQuarterly @SmokeLong @HooghlyReview @press_roi @StanchionZine And thank you to EVERYONE that celebrated these spectacular journals this week🖤 ⬇️ Why won & how to submit #WritingCommunity
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Happy #FlashGiving ! From now until Nov. 22 we're accepting nominations for flash fiction journals that you think are doing great work & deserve a little $$$. Check out our blog post for more info & how to nominate.
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It's here! Issue 71. It's a stunner. 💫
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We are VERY EXCITED to announce our Best Microfiction nominations! Read their stories in this thread...
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We're delighted to welcome Jasmine Sawers to our editorial team! Jasmine has been teaching workshops with us for a long time and was our Issue 73 Guest Editor. Working with them is a joy.
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On June 15, we are welcoming or first group of Readers in Residence. We are so excited to work with @HanaKhalique , @katoscope , @AHicksonLovence , & @thenurtureboy .
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Massive congratulations to our Interviews Editor, @MCzyzniejewski , for winning a Pushcart Prize for his story “Jorie, Jr.”, originally published in @BoulevardMag 🎉
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Announcing the SLQ Best of the Net nominations! Congratulations to @AniokeVincent , @AmandaJBermudez , @erinjvachon , Amanda Gaines, Mei Sa Guo, and @Jessica__Perner . 🎉🎉🎉
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Please give our brilliant new Submissions Editors a big welcome! We’re so happy @aedevaul @PunyFingers and @PatriciaBidar are joining our staff. Please follow them and check out their work! ⚡️🎉❤️🎈
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Thank you the nearly 1,200 writers submitted around 2,000 stories to our first flash fiction contest. We're thrilled to share the long list & finalists for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction!
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The Long List and Finalists - SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction - SmokeLong Quarterly

Well, our first flash fiction contest was an overwhelming success! Thank you to the writers who participated. Nearly 1,200 of you submitted around 2,000 stories to our 15th-anniversary competition....

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IT'S COVER REVEAL TIME! Our special issue for #ASmokeLongSummer is out on Monday, with the winners and finalists of the contests from our summer-long celebratory superworkshop. It's been a blast ⛱️🌅🌞🕶️. Don't miss it!
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Issue 79 is live! We are SO EXCITED to bring it to you. It's a beautiful thing.
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Sharpen those pencils ✏✏✏ The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (aka The Smokey) is back! Submissions open February 10. Details coming soon. 👀
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We received over 100 entries during #FlashGiving & we're pleased to announce @EllipsisZine is the winner! Click the link for more info about FlashGiving & an interview with Ellipsis editor in chief, @StandOnDog .
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Flashgiving Winner: Ellipsis Zine - SmokeLong Quarterly

For the month of November, we asked our readers to nominate other flash-focused journals that they thought were doing great work. In exchange, we would pick one to award $318 to (our tip jar donati...

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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to our @bestmicrofic nominees: @theinnerzone , Carson Markland (story forthcoming in issue 70), & @maddieanthes 🎉🎉🎉
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We want to spend the summer with you! Workshop in small groups, competitions with big $$ prizes and lots of brilliant flash events and writing resources with experienced teachers from all over the flash community. We’re planning something BIG.
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New workshop:
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It's here. Issue Seventy-Three. Ten incredible stories. We hope you love them as much as we do.
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Issue Seventy-Three - SmokeLong Quarterly
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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction longlist is here! Congratulations, all! 🥳
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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction Longlist - SmokeLong Quarterly

Thank you to everyone who participated in our competition this year. We started reading entries on February 10 and just finished reading (and rereading) our last ones last night–in the end, more than...

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What a MASSIVE TREAT we have for you. Coming to Zoom in September: a live event featuring readings from their authors of nine of the SmokeLong stories included in Norton’s Flash Fiction America anthology! Details to come. Tickets are free. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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The SLQ family is growing! New to our Submissions Editors team: Farhana Khalique, Zainab A. Omaki, Tim Craig, and Jemimah Wei, former Readers in Residence; María Alejandra Barrios, our 2020 Flash Fellow; returning from a break, Josh Denslow; and brand new to us, Shreya Vikram!
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Exciting news! We’re launching a companion award to the great biennial Smokey. We hereby present...THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO CONTEST! It’s going to end up as the Mikey, isn’t it. But it’s really grand. Maybe the Michael?
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To celebrate Meghan Phillips and her debut collection, Abstinence Only ( @barrelhouse ), we want to give 10 people the collection. 2/3
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It's here! Issue Sixty -- The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. We can't wait for you to read these stories.
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Issue Sixty - The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction - SmokeLong Quarterly
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SMOKELONG QUARTERLY ISSUE 77 IS HERE! 8 brilliant stories. Stunning artwork. Illuminating interviews. It's a beautiful thing.
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Issue Seventy-Seven - SmokeLong Quarterly
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The Results of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Congratulations, all!
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It’s time for our Issue 82 cover reveal! Featuring writing from a completely stellar cast of contributors, including the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 #TheMikey . Issue 82 is out on Monday. ✨⚡️💙
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The finalists are here! The finalists are here! Congratulations to the absolute stars on the finalist list for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction.
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Wishing you sharp pencils & charged batteries & lots of brilliant ideas in 2019.
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We want our flash fiction competition to be accessible to all writers, so... today is our first of two fee free days!! Send us something we will fall in ❤ with.
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Did you know SmokeLong is a paying market? We're always open for free submissions of flash fiction and flash non-fiction under 1,000 words, and we pair your work with brilliant art and love it for always. #FlashFiction
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⭐️⭐️⭐️Announcing the four winners of the SmokeLong Quarterly Comedy Prize 2021⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Issue 69 is here with a note from our guest editor @saralippmann .
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Issue Sixty-Nine - SmokeLong Quarterly
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🎉We're having another flash party! Readings by @kathyfish , @hahadiyyah , @ambernoelle , & @brendanwriter . For more info & an invite email callen[at]smokelong[dot]com.
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Please RT. Open to anyone on the planet 18+ with no book or chapbook published or under contract--but only open until Oct 15. The SmokeLong Flash Fellowship for Emerging Writers | SmokeLong Quarterly
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Announcing the Long List for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022, chosen by a team of 17 staff from 1476 entries. Huge congratulations to these writers. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your work.
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Announcing the SmokeLong Quarterly Pushcart Prize nominations! Celebrating some fabulous work from @marcusytan , @oyinkansolaso , @Thorntonforreal , @itssonoemi , @n897x1975 , @DeeshaPhilyaw ⚡️🎉❤️
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It's May 25th! Which means SmokeLong is open for general submissions again. This quarter's guest editor is @saralippmann Read her first interview with @shastagrant here...
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"Crush me": An Interview With Quarterly Guest Editor Sara Lippmann - SmokeLong Quarterly

The last time we talked was when you were our guest editor for the week of November 18th. We’re beyond thrilled to have you join us again now as our very first quarterly guest editor! In November,...

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"Life moves fast, even when you’re lonely, even when your heart is healing" This week's story is "Eternal Sunshine" by Tom McMillan. Selected by guest reader @RupertDastur .
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Hey, time zones east of London! You're the first to see the new issue of SmokeLong Quarterly!
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We're so very grateful for the hard work and dedication over the years of Meghan Phillips @mcarphil , who is stepping down from the staff team. We love her lots and wish her the very best.
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⭐️As we approach the end of 2021, we decided to surprise our The Best Small Fictions nominees! Congratulations to these wonderful writers: @stars_su , @MelissaBowers_ , @danieljkuo , SJ Han and @JetpackMarne . You can read their stories in the thread below⭐️
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Announcing our nominations for The Best Small Fictions 2024! We were privileged to publish these incredible stories by @MaureenLangloss @OlaposiH @sarahillswrites @LibbyCudmore @vfovibha ⭐️🌟💫✨
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Issue 76 is here. It's beautiful. Thank you, thank you, thank you to our Guest Editor @wrefinnej , staff, readers in residence, artists, contributors, and everyone who reads, supports and submits to us. You are what makes SmokeLong special.
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ISSUE 75 IS HERE! With huge thanks to Guest Editor @HananahZaheer , our Readers in Residence, and all our staff team. It’s a beautiful thing. We hope you love it as much as we do.
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Issue 81 is live. Read these 12 amazing stories, including five of the best from all those we loved in A SmokeLong Summer. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible.
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Join us in welcoming our new SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellows: Daniel Garcia @_iloveyoudaniel , Fiona McKay @fionaemckayryan , Oyinkansola Sofela @oyinkansolaso , and Erin Vachon @erinjvachon 👏🌟
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Issue 82 is LIVE. Our many, many thanks to our contributors, to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Finalists, to everyone who submitted to SLQ or entered The Mikey, to our staff, Fellows, artists, interviewers, readers, to everyone who supports SmokeLong.❤️
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ISSUE 80 COVER REVEAL. This issue is🔥. Coming Monday.
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3 years
The results of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest #TheMikey are here! Congratulations again to all our wonderful finalists. First: ‘Undergrowth’ by Melissa Bowers Second: ‘Don’t Be Alarmed’ by Gabriel Houck Third: ‘Too Long Under Water’ by Emily Devane
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3 years
Small is beautiful. We want to read it. The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, open March 1 to fiction and CNF under 400 words. $1,500/$500/$300 top three prizes; $100 plus publication in SLQ for finalists. Entry $6 for 1, $10/2, $16/4. The Mikey is coming.
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2 years
We made a couple of errors in yesterday's announcements. It's Sex Week in the workshop and it was Christopher's 25th anniversary. We really should have given him the day off. It's okay, we killed him. Here is the revised list. We are excited to be publishing all of these stories.
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2 years
Our swag game is hot this year #AWP22 . Come see us at T1350 ⚡️
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2 years
From September 1 we will be inviting applications for the SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers:
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5 months
Hey, adorable flash community! We are open for submissions, reading for our March issue, until the end of January! Then we'll be reading for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction until the end of April. Send us something you love.
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3 years
Issue 70 comes out on Monday. Here's a little sneak peek of the contributors & cover art 👀
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3 years
THE MIKEY SHORTLIST IS HERE! From over 1,700 stories all read, commented and voted on by between two and seven editors (more at higher stages). We have drunk a LOT of coffee. We're quite tired. It's worth it. These incredible stories made the shortlist:
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — Shortlist - SmokeLong Quarterly

First, I would like to thank all the readers in the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Thirteen SmokeLong editors from seven countries read over 1700 micros in this competition. All of the stories on the...

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We cannot WAIT for you to read this. Issue 74, including the four winning stories from the SmokeLong Comedy Prize #TheCommies , is live!
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5 years
Many congratulations to our @PushcartPrize nominees 🎉✨ Ashton Carlile, @megpillow , @jenksym , @themoneyiowe , @chipmnk , & Mike Riess
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The application period for the July-December Fellowship is now open!
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For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers mostly through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers. As we have grown, we’ve...

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The shortlist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022. These 25 stories were selected from 1476 entries by a team of 17 staff. The biggest of congratulations to everyone on this list. You are all stars. Finalists announced next Wednesday.
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We'll be reading for the March Issue of SmokeLong until Jan 31. We want your awesome words—up to 1000 of them—fiction/cnf/hybrid. It's free to submit and we will pay 100 shiny dollars on publication of your work, which we will love thereafter always and forever. Hit us up.❤️
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Announcing the long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023
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3 years
Cover reveal! Coming very soon—SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 73
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