Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social
Winner CRAFT '24 Flash Prose Prize • Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Prize, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Cleaver, Flash Frog, Fictive Dream, Moon City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, JMWW ++• SmokeLong Fellow '24
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Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social
· Apr 11
Pareidolia by Kelly Pedro - CRAFT
My mother sees my father’s face everywhere. Last week it was in our neighbour’s wilting asters. Then, an angry version in a banana she decided to save. “Maybe it’ll brown into the Virgin Mary, and we ...
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Thrilled that my winning piece is up at CRAFT Literary today and so lovely to read what @megpokrass.bsky.social had to say about it. Thank you, Meg!
I'd love if you gave it a read.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/04/11/p...
#writing #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity
I'd love if you gave it a read.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/04/11/p...
#writing #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity
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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."
"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."
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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."
"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."
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"She feeds them to be on their good side..." Sagar Nair from Sydney is our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Sagar Nair - SmokeLong Quarterly
I love how this child, like most kids, disregards her mother’s warnings to stay away from the raccoons. A fearless and feral child, very similar to the raccoons already—but her uncle shares this simil...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"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
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
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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...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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...
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October 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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.
Doug Ford is showing his true disdain for renters and is testing how much he can get away with.
We can’t let him.
Now is the time to get organized and fight back if you haven’t already!
YSW Tenant Union is hosting a mass zoom call Sunday Oct 26 8pm to fight back.
www.tenantunion.ca/allout
We can’t let him.
Now is the time to get organized and fight back if you haven’t already!
YSW Tenant Union is hosting a mass zoom call Sunday Oct 26 8pm to fight back.
www.tenantunion.ca/allout
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
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October 25th! Join us and Sage Tyrtle for this special 2-hour webinar/workshop. www.smokelong.com/product/spec...
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
October 25th! Join us and Sage Tyrtle for this special 2-hour webinar/workshop. www.smokelong.com/product/spec...
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"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...
Smoke Signals with Christina Tudor - SmokeLong Quarterly
I often see the meme that says Judy Blume should have written a novel to prepare us for menopause. Sounds like maybe she did with Summer Sisters! What did Blume mean to you growing up? It should come ...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"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...
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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.
"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
Deathselves
By Sarp Sozdinler
www.completesentencelit.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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.
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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...
University of Illinois Springfield students read the queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This week, the students in Meg Cass’s “Creative Writing, Publishing & Community” class at the University of Illinois Springfield will be reading our submission queue! We asked their students a few que...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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...
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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...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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/
Judgment Day
by LM Fontanes Olivia knows the cat is judging her. Now that Matt took off with his dog and six Stop & Shop bags crammed with possessions, it’s pretty clear the cat blames her for the sho…
emergeliteraryjournal.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"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!
Meet some of the talented writers in our Creative Writing MFA program (part one)! ✨📚✨
#CreativeWriting #MFA #UofGuelph #Poetry #Fiction #nonfiction #HybridWriting #Playwriting #CanadianWriters #writingcommunity
#CreativeWriting #MFA #UofGuelph #Poetry #Fiction #nonfiction #HybridWriting #Playwriting #CanadianWriters #writingcommunity
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Such a great group of writers!
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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.
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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.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
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.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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.
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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...
SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
www.smokelong.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
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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...
SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
www.smokelong.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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...
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"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
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Preserves - Tahoma Literary Review
In winter, Lara eats root vegetables from the cellar—crisp carrots and sugar beets that snap between her calcified teeth. Outside, the snow is like
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September 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"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
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tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/p...
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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
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
September 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"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...
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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...
Read more:
reckonreview.com/maybe-parall...
MAYBE PARALLEL UNIVERSE ME WAS BORN WITHOUT A CLEFT PALATE | Creative Nonfiction by Sage Tyrtle – Reckon Review
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September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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...
Read more:
reckonreview.com/maybe-parall...
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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 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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 🧵
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New micro out today, which began as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thank you so much!
It's Wednesday. That means it's time for new flash- this week from @pamavoledo.bsky.social . A very distinct contemporary, intimate style — sensual and slightly surreal.
You can read it here:
literarygarage.com/the-audience
#flash #fiction
You can read it here:
literarygarage.com/the-audience
#flash #fiction
The Audience | Literary Garage
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September 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New micro out today, which began as part of @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thank you so much!
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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...
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
www.smokelong.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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...
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...
Have you seen me?
Frances Orrok Have you seen my hat you say and it’s not just any hat it’s the funny tight cap that flattens your ears and goes under your helmet to stop the wind and I know this is important…
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August 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"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...