What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...

Both Reform & the Tories openly call for ICE-style immigration enforcement squads in the UK. While Labour tries to compete by boasting about its own number of raids & deportations that are barely any different. Immigration enforcement shot two more people in the US overnight.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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...

January marks a year since we started the early form of this giving circle, which you've transformed into a mechanism for dependable support for the last eight months. That really means something to these six families & a camp of fifteen more. Join in: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Hahaha I said to Chris "Nobody ever looks at my Bluesky, we can just use it to test if the access link works" 😀 it's early days, so sorry if it does anything weird for anyone trying to join—very very welcome if you do, though, and hopefully it will just let you! ❤️

We're not totally sure if the joining process is working quite as we want at the moment so if anyone uses this we'd love it if you could let us know what happens!!

(It's a SmokeLong thing. Not a cult, probably.)

Teuta Hoxha, 29, has been in prison without trial for 13 months. news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt

Read "Love ; Sigh" by Claire Y. Guo, the winner of The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 25 and her interview that accompanies the micro here. Claire is our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

We love kicking off the week with a new issue. Our DECEMBER ISSUE is here and ready for you to browse! 📖 🙌 buff.ly/xfJzbi6

...and our interview here! ✨

It's good to remember that there are things worth celebrating–like this *incredible* issue of SmokeLong. We received an overabundance of stunning work for this year's Micro Contest. Check out all the winners, including my interview with Mikey winner, Claire Y. Guo. ✨

Read Claire Y. Guo's winning micro...

Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/

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...

A big round of applause please for our top 25 micros in The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 25! If you see your work on this list, please feel free to celebrate on social media but please do so without identifying your title(s). Anonymous judging is ongoing. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Oh though I’ve totally done this as a parent when your kid who can’t cope with not winning pass-the-parcel at their birthday party needs you to invent something quick for them to get a prize for too before they throw themselves on the floor in a tantrum although tbf they were 4 at the time

“Voluntary deportations”? How is this oxymoronic xenophobic bile coming from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? @labourlewis.bsky.social this is too Orwellian for me. The rhetoric of my lifelong party disgusts me. Torn between never wanting to vote for them again and wanting to keep you as my MP.

A simple ask on this first Saturday of December: click “weekly” or “monthly” on a coffee. The math adds up. Almost two hundred people have pledged around this, and it has meant sustained, dependable support for six families & a camp—to survive.

Streeting, vocal about his belief that mental health issues, autism, ADHD etc are "overdiagnosed, is pushing a review, part led by someone who's already done this to ME patients, into whether they're overdiagnosed. Expect a lot more articles trying to set a narrative. 2/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

As with government "reviews' into migrants rights, disability support, trans and non-binary individuals etc there is usually a preferred outcome which the government wants to achieve. That is helped by media outlets pushing somewhat misleading reports supporting the preferred outcome. 1/

We just gave our annual donation to @rosemetalpress.bsky.social who does so much to support flash and hybrid works. If you can, please send them some cash on this Giving Tuesday. rosemetalpress.com/support-rose...

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...

Congratulations to the winner of SAFTA's SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Trans Writers for Spring 2026, M. K. Thekkumkattil! Details of how to apply for the next round (Summer 2026—deadline Feb 1): www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

The long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is here! Congratulations and thank you to all who entered. The judging has been and continues to be extremely tough. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

We’ll be announcing the long list for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest aka #TheMikey later today…

We made a numbered list of everyone who shared our FlashGiving posts across social media (thank you!) and generated a random number, which was 38, which means that Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social is the winner of our 2025 FlashGiving draw! Please email [email protected], Gill.🙂

It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!

It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...

Day zero or day one, today is the deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Ends midnight tonight. Send your best 250 words (or fewer). #TheMikey. ❤️

Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey

<Prince vocals> This is what it sounds like...when we do number things (also our contest ends this Saturday and is excellent)

This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”

The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Well. We know today is Monday. We know #TheMikey ends midnight NYC, Saturday Nov 15. We know there're 6, 5, or 4 days left, depending who's counting. We know we once confidently ran a contest countdown that ended two days before the deadline and had to style it out. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Now there’s one actual week left, if you count the deadline day as a day and today as a day. $1,000 1st; $500 2nd; $300 3rd; $100 finalists. Winners and finalists published in the December issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. 250 words max. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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?

We never agree on countdowns. To keep the peace, everyone's method is getting a turn this time. So there are "7 days" left to enter #TheMikey, not counting today or the deadline day*. Ends midnight ET Nov. 15. *this is obviously not how countdowns work but someone made a chart and here we all are

Join us!!

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

Okay so every year we fight about how countdowns work, so this time we're just doing a choose-your-own-countdown countdown where you do the math, because we can't. The comp ends the Saturday after this one. You're more likely to know how many days that is than us. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈If you like what you see, then please know that we are OPEN for SUBMISSIONS (!!), albeit to queer writers of colour ONLY for now. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎 See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️

Excellent people to connect with here at this 6-year-old queer literary journal run by my friends Tawseef and Tom ❤️

A reminder that lots of my cartoons are available on T shirts. Preferably from OUR Redbubble store rather than one of the many pirate sites (including those on Redbubble. We're worldofmoose. www.redbubble.com/people/world...

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️‍🌈 We’re now open for submissions until 30th November. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎 See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/