One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?

The editor who has control of the cursor right now thinks there are 10 days left to enter #TheMikey, because it’s open until midnight on November 15, so November 15 is totally one (1) day, no I won’t give it back

The 2026 CAAPP Book Prize is now open! The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free. This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.

I’m heading to Texas in November! At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

Lemon tart for Beth 💛

Time to celebrate the achievements of our amazing workshop participants again: www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

We're going to write together soooo much, and we might even sing Kumbaya. Come write with us. It's free. And we are definitely not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

Join AHP author @sherrieflick.bsky.social for a reading from her story collection "I Have Not Considered Consequences" in Squirrel Hill this week! Q&A to follow 🐻🧡 Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. www.carnegielibrary.org/event/an-eve...

Emerging writer? Write flash? Feeling isolated? We'd love to help you reach that next step. Apply for The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I have a new micro up at Ghost Parachute for their 9th anniversary! Amazing lineup in the full issue. 🪂

Congratulations to Daniel Garcia, past SmokeLong Fellow: lambdaliterary.org/2025/09/dani...

"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Noodle moon

👉🏻This Friday, September 26! 7pm at La Roche University I’ll read from and discuss my memoir-in-essays, HOMING: INSTINCTS OF A RUSTBELT FEMINIST - free - fun 🏠 @univnebpress.bsky.social #booksky #cnf #essays #pittsburgh #supportartists

I’m reading next Tuesday, September 23, at Upper St. Clair Township Library! Free, fun. 🐻 🏠 6:30 #essays #flashfiction #booksky Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306... @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

Announcing our nominations for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @seaheye.bsky.social, Sam Mainz, @jjpena.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, and C Ray Borck

✨ New SmokeLong issue! We've got CNF by AIMEE BENDER and an incredible assortment of flash writers!! ✨

PSA! We're reading for the March issue now. Our September issue goes live on Monday.

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Cover Reveal! September 15th! Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! Ten killer flash by ten amazing writers. And we're thrilled to feature new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in the SmokeLong Master Series. Cover art by Mario Loprete.

It’s Homing’s one-year birthday! 🎂 Thanks to everyone who has supported this collection, especially @univnebpress.bsky.social 🎉 #essays #cnf #memoir #rustbelt #booksky #americanlivesseries #bookbirthday bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Thursday! (Tomorrow!) 8pm

PSA! Our Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller call ends at midnight ET tonight (still looking for that creepy story that's amazing at the line level), our free-submissions window opens tomorrow, we'll be announcing the winners of our summer workshop competitions soon, and we think you're pretty.

Tonight! Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel. Free but registration is required. Reading from the essay collection and the new story collection. Fun! #booksky #essays #flashfiction 🐻🩷 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social coopersiegel.librarycalendar.com/event/commun...

Today! There's still time to request the Zoom link. www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...

Congratulations and much success to our Best of the Net Nominees!

We're collecting some info for future projects. If you've participated in a SmokeLong workshop (and maybe even if you haven't), please take a few minutes and reply to our survey. It's anonymous. fx4n25ehm8e.typeform.com/to/A78qM4SM

This biscuit sandwich (is mine)

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Columbus, Ohians!—I’ll be reading from I Have Not Considered Consequences at Gramercy Books on August 7, in discussion with OSU’s Jim Phelan - 7pm - Free but registration is required, link below 🐻🩷 - Hope to see you there! #booksky @autumnhousepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/authoredit...

This Saturday, August 2, 2025, I’m leading a webinar for SmokeLong Quarterly: 🌟 Compression for Novelists. 🌟 10am est - We’ll look at ways writers go small while writing big - www.smokelong.com/wp-content/u... @smokelong.bsky.social Hope to see you there!

This vat of homemade mac n cheese

Tonight!

It's sign-up time to begin Fitness on August 1st! If you're a flash or flash-adjacent writer passionate about workshopping, come write with us! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

News and Reviews featuring @mike-stark.bsky.social @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social @janellebassett.bsky.social @sherrieflick.bsky.social and more!

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Had a great time at White Whale books last night, in conversation with @sarahshotland.bsky.social about I Have Not Considered Consequences - we also played a few raucous, high-nerd rounds of shag/marry/kill using punctuation, craft elements, and Pittsburgh pizza shops 😂 bookshop.org/p/books/i-ha...

Tonight! ✨ 🐻

I’ll be talking novels and compression August 2, 2025 at SmokeLong Summer 🏋️ Join us! 📚

Book release this Thursday (7/10/25), Pittsburgh! I’m back and in conversation with Sarah Shotland. 📣 🐻🩷 - 7pm at White Whale books It’s gonna be great. @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @sarahshotland.bsky.social

I Have Not Considered Consequences on a cool summer list 🔥

PSA! We are reading for our December issue now!

Birdtime

Sherrie Flick's reading at White Whale on 07/10/25 is just one week away! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sherrie-fl...

Metaphor

"I know people tend to hunt and peck in short story collections, but I think of it more like a record album. I present it as a whole." Thanks to @beltmagazine.bsky.social for this interview with AHP Author @sherrieflick.bsky.social!

I had a great talk with the amazing Bill Lychack about my new story collection 🐻 Up at the also amazing Belt Magazine @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

PGH: Mark your calendar! Sherrie Flick's back in the city and reading at White Whale on 07/10/25 to celebrate her newest flash fiction collection! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sherrie-fl...

Double whammy book review up at Pittsburgh Magazine with big thanks to Kris Collins! “Here in full-flower is what a master storyteller can do with the short form.” @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social www.pittsburghmagazine.com/sherrie-flic...

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