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The SmokeLong Workshop Prize — The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each year, SmokeLong hosts The SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition, a free-to-enter competition for anyone who’s participated in a SmokeLong workshop. To date, our workshop participants (past and cur...
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The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
It's sign-up time! 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...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM
It's sign-up time! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
Are you a flash writer? Flash-adjacent? We've started a free community space for All of the Flash Writers. It's run by SmokeLong, but it's for the world of flash. The Village. Follow The Village here @heyflashvillage.bsky.social and use the link pinned to the account to request citizenship.
January 27, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Are you a flash writer? Flash-adjacent? We've started a free community space for All of the Flash Writers. It's run by SmokeLong, but it's for the world of flash. The Village. Follow The Village here @heyflashvillage.bsky.social and use the link pinned to the account to request citizenship.
Wherever you are this March, you could be drafting micros with the SmokeLong workshop community. 24 days, 24 tasks, peer-review in small groups, competitions, and more. Sign up now. www.smokelong.com/smokelongs-m...
SmokeLong's 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 25, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Wherever you are this March, you could be drafting micros with the SmokeLong workshop community. 24 days, 24 tasks, peer-review in small groups, competitions, and more. Sign up now. www.smokelong.com/smokelongs-m...
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize — The Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each year, SmokeLong hosts The SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition, a free-to-enter competition for anyone who’s participated in a SmokeLong workshop. To date, our workshop participants (past and cur...
www.smokelong.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:50 AM
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Long List just went live. It has been a mountain of great work. We received just over 400 entries from our workshop participants in 2025. Congratulations to all! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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Super excited to write with all of you in this #WritingWorkshop, can't wait to see you there:
February 15th! 6pm NYC! Come write the stories waiting in the margins with Sage Tyrtle! www.smokelong.com/product/unto...
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Super excited to write with all of you in this #WritingWorkshop, can't wait to see you there:
February 15th! 6pm NYC! Come write the stories waiting in the margins with Sage Tyrtle! www.smokelong.com/product/unto...
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
February 15th! 6pm NYC! Come write the stories waiting in the margins with Sage Tyrtle! www.smokelong.com/product/unto...
Yay!!!!
Have a 100 word micro up in Nunum done in a 100 anthology - a pics that was curated at the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop! Thank you editors!
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Yay!!!!
Join SmokeLong for a reading and interview with Patricia Q. Bidar to celebrate the publication of Pardon Me for Moonwalking. January 31, 9pm NYC. DM us for an invitation!
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Join SmokeLong for a reading and interview with Patricia Q. Bidar to celebrate the publication of Pardon Me for Moonwalking. January 31, 9pm NYC. DM us for an invitation!
We're always looking...
January 19, 2026 at 5:44 AM
We're always looking...
"...voice, language, imagination." Nadia Born is our featured author this week. Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's interview with the author at smokelong dot com and then "the sentence tree," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Nadia Born - SmokeLong Quarterly
First, let me say congratulations. I love “the sentence tree.” I’m a huge linguistics nerd, and when I saw your title in our queue, I was intrigued. Did your micro start out with diagramming sentences...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:38 AM
"...voice, language, imagination." Nadia Born is our featured author this week. Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's interview with the author at smokelong dot com and then "the sentence tree," a finalist for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
PSA! We're reading for the March issue until Feb 15, then for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction until May 10. Our next free-submissions window opens May 15! We are also pretty close to arriving at a long list for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize! Lots going on! Not sleeping much.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
PSA! We're reading for the March issue until Feb 15, then for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction until May 10. Our next free-submissions window opens May 15! We are also pretty close to arriving at a long list for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize! Lots going on! Not sleeping much.
24 days, a prompt-a-day celebration of the micro with 2 webinars and lots of open mics, competitions, and one month of SmokeLong Fitness if you're not already in our year-round community workshop. SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is a blast. Come write with us. 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...
www.smokelong.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:14 AM
24 days, a prompt-a-day celebration of the micro with 2 webinars and lots of open mics, competitions, and one month of SmokeLong Fitness if you're not already in our year-round community workshop. SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is a blast. Come write with us. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
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Hello, #AWP Bluesky. We are having a reading event at Old Major in Baltimore on Thursday March 5, 6-8pm. It is free. A lot of us will be there and we would love love love to see you. 💗🏳️⚧️⚡🌈
January 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Hello, #AWP Bluesky. We are having a reading event at Old Major in Baltimore on Thursday March 5, 6-8pm. It is free. A lot of us will be there and we would love love love to see you. 💗🏳️⚧️⚡🌈
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"...there are many ways to be born..." Valerie Hughes is our featured author this week. Read Shasta Grant's interview with the author. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Valerie Hughes - SmokeLong Quarterly
How did this story first come to you? Was it an image, a character, an emotion? Definitely an emotion. To look at a friend’s life and wonder how they can want something that not only feels out of reac...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
"...there are many ways to be born..." Valerie Hughes is our featured author this week. Read Shasta Grant's interview with the author. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
"...there are many ways to be born..." Valerie Hughes is our featured author this week. Read Shasta Grant's interview with the author. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Valerie Hughes - SmokeLong Quarterly
How did this story first come to you? Was it an image, a character, an emotion? Definitely an emotion. To look at a friend’s life and wonder how they can want something that not only feels out of reac...
www.smokelong.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
"...there are many ways to be born..." Valerie Hughes is our featured author this week. Read Shasta Grant's interview with the author. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Read Brandon McNeice's review of Patricia Q. Bidar's collection Pardon me for Moonwalking! www.smokelong.com/review-patri...
Review: Patricia Bidar’s Pardon Me for Moonwalking - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by Brandon McNeice A cheap lime green phone charger sits on the counter in the flash fiction “Over There” like an accusation, a small object that somehow contains a whole day. Patricia Q. Bid...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Read Brandon McNeice's review of Patricia Q. Bidar's collection Pardon me for Moonwalking! www.smokelong.com/review-patri...
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A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A new year brings us new work to admire 💫 Help us welcome our JANUARY ISSUE: buff.ly/xnuvf6J
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Major thanks to our contributors!
WORDS @esmepromise.bsky.social, Stephanie Meade Gresham, Lia Hagen, Joan Kwon Glass
ART Audrey Holmes
PLUS @rachellayown.bsky.social reviews @chriscampanioni.bsky.social
Awww, look at the smiley faces of our editors in Singapore today. Christopher Allen and Hema Nataraju ❤️
About today…😍
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Awww, look at the smiley faces of our editors in Singapore today. Christopher Allen and Hema Nataraju ❤️
Yay, Belinda!
Honoured and excited to have my first publication of 2026 in Flash the Court! Many thanks to EIC Courtney Harler for this opportunity! Many thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social where this piece was born and to the SmokeLong community for their awesomeness! 💕
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“The day they bomb the art gallery” by Belinda Rowe
“The day they bomb the art gallery” by Belinda Rowe is a flash fiction with the beating heart of a prose poem. Note certain poetic techniques, such as the well-placed repetition of the “enigmatic s…
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January 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Yay, Belinda!
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"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...
Smoke Signals with Vaneeza Sohail - SmokeLong Quarterly
Your story is set in Karachi, which is also where you are from. What do you want people who have never been there to know about the city? You will never figure it out. Some days the city will make sen...
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January 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
"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...
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"Sun encapsulated in tree limbs like fruit. A whip crackle of thunder behind the tongue. A bluebird’s tail, stitched with rain. An approximation of the landscape that surrounds me."
Between Chamisa & Rengyo by Mizuki Yamagen @smokelong.bsky.social
Best Literary Flash
https://shorturl.at/mQILV
Between Chamisa & Rengyo by Mizuki Yamagen @smokelong.bsky.social
Best Literary Flash
https://shorturl.at/mQILV
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
"Sun encapsulated in tree limbs like fruit. A whip crackle of thunder behind the tongue. A bluebird’s tail, stitched with rain. An approximation of the landscape that surrounds me."
Between Chamisa & Rengyo by Mizuki Yamagen @smokelong.bsky.social
Best Literary Flash
https://shorturl.at/mQILV
Between Chamisa & Rengyo by Mizuki Yamagen @smokelong.bsky.social
Best Literary Flash
https://shorturl.at/mQILV
We're in Singapore! Come see us!
Happy New Year! Announcing @smokelong.bsky.social's "Smokelong on the Road—the Singapore edition!"
Ft: @lit-namjooning.bsky.social and @eunoiareview.bsky.social!
Come read with us at Book Bar on Duxton Road. Register here and tell your friends! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Ft: @lit-namjooning.bsky.social and @eunoiareview.bsky.social!
Come read with us at Book Bar on Duxton Road. Register here and tell your friends! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 15, 2026 at 11:27 AM
We're in Singapore! Come see us!
Yay, Kim!
I have three new flashes in wonderful Frigg! All workshopped at @smokelong.bsky.social. Grateful thanks also to @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social for reading drafts. The first:
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Frigg | Winter 2025-2026 | How to Keep Yourself from Floating All the Way Up | Kim Magowan
How to Keep Yourself from Floating All the Way Up, short story by Kim Magowan
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January 15, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Yay, Kim!
Hello, #AWP Bluesky. We are having a reading event at Old Major in Baltimore on Thursday March 5, 6-8pm. It is free. A lot of us will be there and we would love love love to see you. 💗🏳️⚧️⚡🌈
January 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Hello, #AWP Bluesky. We are having a reading event at Old Major in Baltimore on Thursday March 5, 6-8pm. It is free. A lot of us will be there and we would love love love to see you. 💗🏳️⚧️⚡🌈