Yay!!! What an exceptional collection!

I'm thrilled! I love Madrid, and I can't wait to reconsider how we write about time. And of course lots of rioja.

PSA! A SmokeLong Summer 26 dates!! May 28th-Sep 1st! Onboarding May 28th-June 2nd, Three-task-a-week peer-review workshop June 3rd-Aug 4th, then cool down with one task a week until Sep 1st. More live events than ever this year! Mark your calendars! More info soon! Summer just got longer.

Holly Mitchell is our featured author this week. Read America Marvel's interview with the author, in which Mitchell talks about narrative structure, in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Hey, flash writers. We've started a FREE space for the flash community. We're SmokeLong, but we're also all of us. The Village will be a space for exchange, for info, for celebration beyond the noise of social media. Head over to @heyflashvillage.bsky.social for an invitation.

New @smokelong.bsky.social! So many fantastic flashes—and interviews, too!

It's time for another #FlashInTheFeed. Let's fill our dumpster-fire social media feeds with art for the next three days. Share a great flash narrative by a writer you don't know with this hashtag and we'll give away a copy of Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, to seven people at random.

It's here! So long in the works. We can't wait to share this issue with you. It's grand.

ICYMI (because we can't find it), our Pushcart nominations for December were: “Good” by Audrey Obuobisa-Darko; “Savior” by Seth Gleckman; “Organs” by Aimee Bender; “Pigeon-Toed” by Claire Guo; “Grave” by CJ Scruton; “Between Chamisa and Rengyō” by Mizuki Yamamoto.

We'd love to see you! We're getting there at around 4:30 to hang out, eat and drink before the reading, so even if you have obligations later, please stop by and say hello!

Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award! www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

Thank you, Helen Rye, for making a graphic for me. She'll also be leading me around at AWP! Watch for us. If you see us wandering aimlessly around the bookfair, stop us and say hi!

We're reading for the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Prize pot: $4700. Be sure to read the previous years' issues before you enter. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I need someone to plan AWP for me. Just tell me where to go. Shove me in to one Uber after another. I'll be uploading my Find Me at AWP post soon, as soon as someone tells me.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

Oh no. We never know how long we have. youtu.be/kPBzTxZQG5Q?...

Yay!!!!

Sadly, this is timeless. New work by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

It's been a minute since I published something of my own! SmokeLong and SmokeLong Fitness are like having two full-time jobs (which I LOVE), so I'm thrilled to have found time to write something. Sending a huge hug to this kid. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

It's been a minute since I published something of my own! SmokeLong and SmokeLong Fitness are like having two full-time jobs (which I LOVE), so I'm thrilled to have found time to write something. Sending a huge hug to this kid. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Aw, beautiful art! Thank you for giving this story the perfect home!

Don't miss our outstanding final nomination for this year's Best Small Fictions, "A Silent Cage" by Wafa-e-fatima: www.smokelong.com/stories/a-si...

"Slack" by Brandon McNeice @brandonmcneice.bsky.social is the fourth of our phenomenal stories nominated for Best Small Fictions this year: www.smokelong.com/stories/slack/

We're privileged to nominate "Between Chamisa and Rengyō" by Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social for this year's Best Small Fictions: www.smokelong.com/stories/betw...

The incredible "Love ; Sigh" by Claire Y. Guo won the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 and is our third nomination for this year's Best Small Fictions: www.smokelong.com/stories/love...

We're honored to announce our Best Small Fictions nominations for this year. First up: "Sati" by Vaibhavi Kerkar. www.smokelong.com/stories/sati/

"Poetry often reminds me of Karachi" Vaneeza Sohail is our featured author this week. Read her interview and "Party Song," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Thinking about doing SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon? Did you know that you can book at a discount until January 12th? It's still a great price after Jan 12th, but every little helps. Come write with us. We are definitely not a cult. Our mother had us checked. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...

Singapore flash writers, unite! @smokelong.bsky.social will be in Singapore soon and we're doing a reading and open mic with Lit Namjooning and @eunoiareview.bsky.social. If you're in/around SG and want to read your flash-length work, do register. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can still join our free series of write-ins and open mics--five events each week until December 14th! Sign up for ZERO dollars. Yep. This one's on us. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

Yay!!!!

OK, so today I did this. The round stone at the top, so I think I've found a new vocation.

Thank you so much, Gillian! And what a great pleasure it was to spend time with the literary community in Perth!

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.

I'll just leave this here. The rubber duckies are watching.

Thank you, @kplumhoff.bsky.social for these BEAUTIFUL tiny gin and tonic cups! They are stunning.

Our competitions always introduce us to new talent. Chi Pham's story "Man Spelt Backwards" is the author's first published story. We are THRILLED to be the first. And we have nominated the story for PEN America's Robert J. Dau Short Story Award for Emerging Writers. @seaheye.bsky.social‬

Novelists, don't miss this! August 2! www.smokelong.com/product/comp...

"The makeup ritual is both self-flagellation and self-creation because those can be the same gesture...It’s violent work of daily erasure and reconstruction, but becoming yourself sometimes requires destroying what you were." Chi Pham (2nd place in The Smokey 2025): www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

We're sponsoring The SmokeLong Quarterly Trans Writer Fellowship and Residency in cooperation with @sundresspub.bsky.social and you can find out more here... www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

Looking for a supportive, energetic writing community? Do you write flash? The next starting date for SmokeLong Fitness is August first. Book anytime before July 31st to start August 1st. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

This challenge starts June 25th. Read the archives of a favorite flash journal and get your name in the hat to win $400. www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...

Good morning, US and Western time zones! Issue 88 of SmokeLong Quarterly, featuring the finalists and winners of the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025, is now LIVE. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

For our readers in the UK and eastward (and night owls in the US), our special competition issue is live! The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social wrote a 🔥 flash cnf collection and I had the honour of reviewing it for @smokelong.bsky.social (thanks @erinvachon.bsky.social for bonza editorial support). Read my review and read this collection now. It’s so important 🧡 www.smokelong.com/dear-sarah-f...

A lot of SmokeLong Fitness trousers are here. :)

"Can you give helpful and encouraging feedback? Are you able to remain calm and polite? Do you need some friendly warmth and support?" Frances Gapper, long-listee for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize 2024, on peer-review workshopping. www.smokelong.com/an-interview...