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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉
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Senior Reviews Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor, Split/Lip Press
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Scientists say the cure for depression and existential terror is making out with someone cool. Scientists said it. I don’t make the rules.
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Someone on MSNBC just said that abducting Maduro took “exquisite intelligence,” and I’m losing my mind.
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers!
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December Workshop Celebration 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Write with us. We're weird. OK, a few of us aren't, but most of us are weird. WEeeirrd. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
The March Micro Marathon 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
In its third year, The March Micro Marathon will be, as usual, a prompt-a-day whirlwind for 24 days. You’ll exchange drafts of micro fiction, non-fiction, and prose poetry in small groups and gather f...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN for the 2026 Sarabande Annual Prizes through Submittable starting today Jan 1 - Feb 15. This year’s judges are: Kaveh Akbar (Short Fiction), Adrian Matejka (Poetry), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Essay)!

Winners receive $2,000 and publication! Full details at link in bio ✨
Cream background with the white Sarabande logo bleeding through in the background. Black text at top reads: Submissions Open. Underneath in pink text it reads: Sarabande Annual Prizes. Along the left hand side are the judges headshots. Top to bottom reads: Photo of Kaveh Akbar, black text next to his headshot reads “Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction selected by Kaveh Akbar”; Underneath is Adrian Matejka’s headshot and text next to his photo reads “Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry selected by Adrian Matejka”; followed by the headshot of Aimee Nezhukumatathil and next to her photo is text that reads “Sarabande Prize in the Essay selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.” At the bottom right in pink text it says “open submissions” and underneath in black text the open submission dates “Jan 1 - Feb 15”
January 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
erinvachon.bsky.social
Honestly, I had a super fun night but now I think I’m ending 2025 on Men in Black 2, which sounds about right.
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
erinvachon.bsky.social
It’s 6:30 and it already feels like midnight 😩
December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
erinvachon.bsky.social
Hello, dear lovely writer-friends with (non-Substack) newsletters, do you like the newsletter life? I'm trying to figure out if I should put this on my ever-expanding 2026 list of goals. Planning to prioritize my own writing this year, and wondering what you find to be the benefit?
December 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
erinvachon.bsky.social
We were–indeed–Rickrolled by Rian Johnson. Chef's Kiss.
rianjohnson.bsky.social Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 4d
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 5d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I have some cool lit events coming up! If you're in the Providence area, I'm doing a Riffraff reading for Zefyr Lisowski's new book, along with Brandon Perras-Sanchez! Friday 9 January, followed by a movie screening! ✨
A reading from Uncanny Valley Girls by Zefyr Lisowski along with Erin Vachon and Brandon Perras-Sanchez Friday January 9th 7pm followed by a screening of Saint Drogo
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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jfc I caught up to Heated Rivalry episode five and I just LAUGH-SOBBED at the ending
December 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Lydia Davis. New Year’s Resolution. ✨
New Year's Resolution I ask my friend Bob what his New Year's resolutions are and he says, with a shrug (indicating that this is obvious or not surprising): to drink less, to lose weight... He asks me the same, but 1 am not ready to answer him yet. I have been studying my Zen again, in a mild way, out of desperation over the holidays, though mild desperation. A medal or a rotten tomato, it's all the same, says the book I have been reading. After a few days of consideration, I think the most truthful answer to my friend Bob would be: My New Year's resolution is to learn to see myself as nothing. Is this competitive? He wants to lose some weight, I want to learn to see myself as nothing. Of course, to be competitive is not in keeping with any Buddhist philosophy. A true nothing is not competitive. But I don't think I'm being competitive when I say it. I am feeling truly humble, at that moment. Or I think I am—in fact, can anyone be truly humble at the moment they say they want to learn to be nothing! But there is another problem, which I have been wanting to describe to Bob for a few weeks now: at last, halfway through your life, you are smart enough to see that it all amounts to nothing, even success amounts to noth-ing. But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as something in the first place? It's so confusing. You spend the first half of your life learning that you are something after all, now you have to spend the second half learning to see yourself as nothing. You have been a negative nothing, now you want to be a positive nothing. I have begun trying, in these first days of the new year, but so far it's pretty difficult. I'm pretty close to nothing all morning, but by late afternoon what is in me that is something starts throwing its weight around. This happens many days. By evening, I'm full of something and it's often something nasty and pushy. So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Lydia Davis. New Year’s Resolution. ✨
New Year's Resolution I ask my friend Bob what his New Year's resolutions are and he says, with a shrug (indicating that this is obvious or not surprising): to drink less, to lose weight... He asks me the same, but 1 am not ready to answer him yet. I have been studying my Zen again, in a mild way, out of desperation over the holidays, though mild desperation. A medal or a rotten tomato, it's all the same, says the book I have been reading. After a few days of consideration, I think the most truthful answer to my friend Bob would be: My New Year's resolution is to learn to see myself as nothing. Is this competitive? He wants to lose some weight, I want to learn to see myself as nothing. Of course, to be competitive is not in keeping with any Buddhist philosophy. A true nothing is not competitive. But I don't think I'm being competitive when I say it. I am feeling truly humble, at that moment. Or I think I am—in fact, can anyone be truly humble at the moment they say they want to learn to be nothing! But there is another problem, which I have been wanting to describe to Bob for a few weeks now: at last, halfway through your life, you are smart enough to see that it all amounts to nothing, even success amounts to noth-ing. But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as something in the first place? It's so confusing. You spend the first half of your life learning that you are something after all, now you have to spend the second half learning to see yourself as nothing. You have been a negative nothing, now you want to be a positive nothing. I have begun trying, in these first days of the new year, but so far it's pretty difficult. I'm pretty close to nothing all morning, but by late afternoon what is in me that is something starts throwing its weight around. This happens many days. By evening, I'm full of something and it's often something nasty and pushy. So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

PJ Harvey’s 1993 Rid Of Me found me as I ended a relationship that had remade my world. This was the sound track as I began again.
A black and white photo of the artist, PJ Harvey, a white woman with black hair, her black hair wet and caught mid-whip as if it were made of oil. She’s shirtless, a chain around her neck, and her left eyebrow is crooked, her mouth closed, almost a smirk. Text reads PJ Jarvey Rid of Me across the top in a sans serif font.
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Tried to get out for the first time in a week and it was a miscalculation. My body’s still wrecked. 😩
December 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
erinvachon.bsky.social
Oh man, just saw kids sledding and I forgot humans do that?!
December 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Text message reading: Today 8:18 PM Guy at hot topic thought I was a mannequin then freaked out when I moved
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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alexicon.bsky.social
four years ago i wrote about the intersection of queerness and hockey for @thewalrus.ca — if you've been loving (or feeling a certain way about) Heated Rivalry lately you might find this interesting!
Will There Ever Be an Openly Queer NHL Player? | The Walrus
In hockey culture, male aggression is valorized while any weakness, real or perceived, is weaponized
thewalrus.ca
December 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
erinvachon.bsky.social
If you want to know how I’m doing, I shampooed my face in the shower today.
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
Here’s to 2026
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM