Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers! www.smokelong.com/december-wor...

It's the most writing fun you'll have all year!

"Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king." I've been thinking about this Katherine Plumhoff flash since I read it in @smokelong.bsky.social ... the building temp, the POV, it's so good. www.smokelong.com/stories/good... #FlashFiction

Spotlight on "Preserves" by @kellypedro.bsky.social who chose to structure the story around the seasons, "and soon after, the idea of how we feed or starve ourselves emerged" tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

"I held out my puckered palm, and my father began dropping the red pins gently into it, each making a little tink as they landed." Wow, I really love this story by @kellypedro.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

‘My mother kept a map in her closet with pins scattered across it—green were all the places she’d been, and red were the places she still wanted to go.’ Read this gorgeous flash by @kellypedro.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Beautifully layered and poignant.

I can't believe I'm ending the year by publishing a flash in dream lit mag fracturedlit.bsky.social. Flash takes time. I wrote this 2 years ago and it's had many edits since, including a stop in smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thanks tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and team! fracturedlit.com/leaving/

I've just read 'Leaving', flash fiction by @kellypedro.bsky.social published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. I really liked it, especially the ending. At first, I feared something like this would happen, and then I knew it would because, of course, it couldn't be otherwise. fracturedlit.com/leaving/

🧵 This morning I was reminded by Kumail Nanjiani (on the Wild Card podcast) of the importance of learning from your artistic community. So I thought it would be fun to do a thread of at least one thing I've learned from each writer/book/story I've read this year. Add yours & let's keep it going!

Congrats and good luck to @mooncityreview.bsky.social's 2025 Best Small Fictions nominees! @mynachang.bsky.social, @claudiamonpere.bsky.social, @kellypedro.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social, Nora Wagner

What company to be in! I feel so lucky that my work has the support of literary magazines like @mooncityreview.bsky.social. If you're looking for a phenomenal home for your work, this is the place! Thanks @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social and team for this nomination!

The new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social is out and there are so many gems, including Claire Y. Guo's Love; Sigh that starts: "Ma collects birth stories as lozenges and swallows them when she is tired." Read this contest winner: www.smokelong.com/stories/love...

Issue 90 cover reveal! Out on Monday. Including the winners of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 🏆

We have winners! The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest was a bear this year. So many excellent micros. These are our top 7 and will be published Monday in Issue 90! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"Alone, I’d neglect my hygiene. I’d forget to feed the cats or pay our bills and lose my phone. In the end, I’d forget language altogether, reduced to aping lines from television shows and podcasts and graphic tees." What a stellar flash by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction

Join us in congratulating Jay Morse. His nonfiction piece, "Triumph," first published in Issue 30 Spring 2024, was just listed among the "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025. You can read the full story here: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/articles/not...

Out TODAY, or so I'm told.

Our workshop participants reported more than 40 publications in November. While they don't yet rule the world—unfortunately—they rock it. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

My first Pushcart nom! Thank you @mooncityreview.bsky.social and @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social for loving my weird flash story about a grandmother's ghostly legs as much as I do. And thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness where this story began, and my workshop mates who offered feedback!

"I imagine our faces shining, spreading luminous like the sun in that clearing until the light is all I can see—light that has been there all along..." I can't say enough how incredible this story by Madeeha Hashmi is. Make time for it today! @ex-puritan.bsky.social ex-puritan.ca/thousands-of...

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...

FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!

If you have, like, 30 seconds you can vote for the best lit mags and help make a significant difference to some hard working, kind, and reliable magazines. And maybe win some cash yourself! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... @chillsubs.bsky.social

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

"She feeds them to be on their good side..." Sagar Nair from Sydney is our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

I love this roundups because it makes reading new excellent flash really easy. Check out all the great flash that's been recently published. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo... #Flash #FlashFiction #FlashCNF #FlashWriters #WritingCommunity

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...

“Go Jays Go!” is "Aambe gwiing gwiish aambe!" #BlueJays

Every tenant in Ontario is about to lose any security of tenure. We must do everything we can to stop this. We could use homeowners' helped: please let your MPPs know it isn't OK to give landlords the power to end tenancies after a year.

October 25th! Join us and Sage Tyrtle for this special 2-hour webinar/workshop. www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

"Growing up is awkward." Read Christina Tudor's interview that accompanies her award-winning CNF from A SmokeLong Summer 25. Christina is our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Got a new one-sentence story that has first given seed in a hospital waiting room, then progressed in the SmokeLong Fitness (@smokelong.bsky.social), and found its final shape on Complete Sentence (@completesentence.bsky.social) today. Hope you enjoy.

Meg Cass's "Creative Writing, Publishing & Community" class are reading the SmokeLong queue this week. If you're a creative writing teacher who'd love to give your students a look behind the curtain of a literary journal, let us know. www.smokelong.com/university-o...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"But heat is heat and a cat understands that you grab what you can." Love this flash by my @smokelong.bsky.social peer @lorifontanes.bsky.social in Emerge Lit Journal. emergeliteraryjournal.com/judgment-day/

Such a great group of writers!

Friends, if you happen to be in Mississauga and you have questions about publishing, Noelle Allen will taking part in the publishing panel at the Canada Literature Festival tonigh, 6:30 pm in the Noel Ryan Theatre of that Hazel McCallion Library, at 301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.

ROME (AP) — More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.

Need more community? Writing in isolation? Our first October writing task goes live on October 6th, so you have a few days to think. We'd love to get all the new members in by Oct 1st so that we can do some onboarding before Oct 6th. Come write with us. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

Feeling isolated? Craving community? It's sign-up time to begin SmokeLong Fitness in October. Our community workshop of around 200 passionate writers from around the world is an honest, supportive group of talented and adorable people. Come write with us. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

"Lara eats chocolate cake again when the man she loves brings it to her after his wife has gone into town to run errands." @kellypedro.bsky.social in @tahomareview.bsky.social tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...

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

"Because when you reveal in group that your stepfather denies everything and your mom believes him, Piper nods like she knows." What a gem by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social. fictivedream.com/2025/09/08/m...

SO proud to be part of @reckonreview.bsky.social with this CNF #FlashFiction piece, which I wrote as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. It begins: "Maybe parallel universe me was born without a cleft palate. Maybe her philtrum is intact..." Read more: reckonreview.com/maybe-parall...

Book giveaway!!! I just got my author copies of SALTCROP and I’m giving two away! Sign up for my newsletter before Friday 9/5/25, 11AM EST for a chance to win! More details 🧵

New micro out today, which began as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thank you so much!

PSA! We need to get September new members in today so that everyone has the chance to become familiar with the workshop site before the first September writing task (goes live on Sept 1st). Write with us. We are nice. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

"you say, it’s minus 4 outside and there is only one glove, and the smallest says she needs two bunches not one and so I give everyone a banana and carry her kicking into the car" I feel so seen in this @francesorrok.bsky.social micro in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/have-you-see...

Lara shakes her head slightly, and the woman’s hair becomes wild, electrified. “Then I need you to leave,” the woman says. “I can’t. My life is here.” The woman laughs, crests a hand over her eyes. “What life?” @kellypedro.bsky.social in @tahomareview.bsky.social !!