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Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters.
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Smoke Signals with Lindsey Pharr - SmokeLong Quarterly
Diving is a great metaphor and a very specific sport. Do you dive? Did you know you would employ this theme before you put pen to paper? It’s been years since I’ve gone diving, but I loved it. I had n...
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"We end up with these objects that become talismans of people we’ve lost and it’s this totally organic process..." Read Kelli Short Borges' interview with Lindsey Pharr, our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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Need a writing adrenaline rush? SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is coming in, um, March! Write with us. We're not a cult. Nope.
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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 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Need a writing adrenaline rush? SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is coming in, um, March! Write with us. We're not a cult. Nope.
www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
Need a writing adrenaline rush? SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is coming in, um, March! Write with us. We're not a cult. Nope.
www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
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 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Need a writing adrenaline rush? SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is coming in, um, March! Write with us. We're not a cult. Nope.
www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
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"The tourist would charge at our champion and they’d lock their roped-on antlers crowns like the reindeers did in the fall with the challenger bulls,...."
Wow, this story is remarkable by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @kyleisamu.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this story is remarkable by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @kyleisamu.bsky.social 💙💙💙
“We’d found the antlers, polished them, and kept them safe all winter as we mucked reindeer shit…”
How does @kplumhoff.bsky.social do it? No clue but I enjoyed every second and you will too.
How does @kplumhoff.bsky.social do it? No clue but I enjoyed every second and you will too.
Good Sign of Future Happiness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...
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January 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
"The tourist would charge at our champion and they’d lock their roped-on antlers crowns like the reindeers did in the fall with the challenger bulls,...."
Wow, this story is remarkable by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @kyleisamu.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow, this story is remarkable by @kplumhoff.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @kyleisamu.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Help us welcome our 2026 Emerging Writer Fellows! We're so excited to work with these five talented writers for the next six months!
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Meet the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellows! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This year from January to June we are thrilled to provide The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship to five talented writers. Each of these writers will receive feedback from three senior SmokeLong edi...
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January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Help us welcome our 2026 Emerging Writer Fellows! We're so excited to work with these five talented writers for the next six months!
www.smokelong.com/meet-the-202...
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The good folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social started a new community for us: The Village! I'm so excited about it that I contributed the very first Lit Mag interview where I talk about Split Lip's submissions & editing process & gush about @rpmirabella.bsky.social & K-Ming Chang! Join to read!
Read our interview with @maureenlangloss.bsky.social of Split Lip in The Village!
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The good folks over at @smokelong.bsky.social started a new community for us: The Village! I'm so excited about it that I contributed the very first Lit Mag interview where I talk about Split Lip's submissions & editing process & gush about @rpmirabella.bsky.social & K-Ming Chang! Join to read!
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
Help us celebrate the more than 60 publications reported to us by our workshop participants in December! Onward, trousers!
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Yay!!!!
I have a new story out in @trashcatlit.bsky.social today! You can read it here, or listen to me read it to you! Many thanks to @therelphian.bsky.social, and to @smokelong.bsky.social, where this piece was born.
#flashfiction
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#flashfiction
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She Calls Him Tugger After the Cat in That Musical
Linda M. Bayley Listen to Linda read her story: because he’s always on the wrong side of the patio door. Comes inside when he wants a treat or a sliver of warmth, stays maybe for a belly rub or a q…
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January 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Yay!!!!
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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 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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...
Can't wait! Come read with 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 2, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Can't wait! Come read with us!
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...
www.smokelong.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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...
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If you’re a flash writer, please come join @smokelong.bsky.social’s The Village With All The Flash Writers. And make sure you read the inimitable Zach Doss’s story on which the name of this new community is based. I’ll link it in the thread.
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
If you’re a flash writer, please come join @smokelong.bsky.social’s The Village With All The Flash Writers. And make sure you read the inimitable Zach Doss’s story on which the name of this new community is based. I’ll link it in the thread.
Wherever you are on this planet, you can write with us this March. SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is a prompt-a-day frenzy in a supportive, fun workshop environment with webinars and open mics. Read more about it and book by January 12th to get a $25 discount. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Wherever you are on this planet, you can write with us this March. SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is a prompt-a-day frenzy in a supportive, fun workshop environment with webinars and open mics. Read more about it and book by January 12th to get a $25 discount. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
Yay!!!!!
Love starting off 2026 with a publication. One of my favorite stories that I did in @smokelong.bsky.social’s summer workshop. Thanks @bwgroundtable.bsky.social for giving this a home!
bwgwritersroundtable.com/behold/
bwgwritersroundtable.com/behold/
Behold
I agreed to sit for the portrait because Picasso was your favorite. I assumed you’d paint fractured planes, a body in distortions and angles. I wanted anonymity with my fifteen dollars per hour. Ab…
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January 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Yay!!!!!
Yay!!!!
My second skull of the year at @havehashad.com came from guest editors @hexliterary.bsky.social! This was the first piece to be published from the March Micro Marathon from @smokelong.bsky.social, the best thing I've done for my (writing) self in a long time. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/yes...
Yes, There Was An Incident At The Giant Foam Block Mountain by Timothy C Goodwin
Yes, my children were involved. Yes, it was after hours, meaning we broke into the mall, and yes it appears that—what was the old guy's name? Stanley. Right. Thank you—Stanley the night guard had some...
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January 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Yay!!!!
Yay!!!
One of my fave lit mags has been Bottle Rocket, and I was so excited to have this piece accepted there. And hey! Another piece forged in the @smokelong.bsky.social workshops. www.bottlerocketlitmag.com/the-work/hor...
Horatio should not leave the party with ophelia by Timothy c. Goodwin — Bottle Rocket
but we exit the opening night party together into the deadest of Colorado’s winter anyway, tipsy on our stage manager’s improvised cocktails, on a week's worth of backstage glances. We've been warned ...
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January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Yay!!!
Yay!!!!!! Congratulations, Tracie!
With lots of help from my @smokelong.bsky.social peeps and my Flash Fiction Mag (AOC) group and my awesome mentor @mattkendrick.bsky.social and 52 amazing lit mags who published my work. 🙌🏽😇🫶🏼
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yay!!!!!! Congratulations, Tracie!
Yay!!!!!! These stats are wild! Congratulations!
More than half my acceptances this year were stories inspired by prompts, tasks or webinars in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. I'm so happy to be part of such a generative, kind, supportive writing community!
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yay!!!!!! These stats are wild! Congratulations!
"We end up with these objects that become talismans of people we’ve lost and it’s this totally organic process..." Read Kelli Short Borges' interview with Lindsey Pharr, our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Lindsey Pharr - SmokeLong Quarterly
Diving is a great metaphor and a very specific sport. Do you dive? Did you know you would employ this theme before you put pen to paper? It’s been years since I’ve gone diving, but I loved it. I had n...
www.smokelong.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"We end up with these objects that become talismans of people we’ve lost and it’s this totally organic process..." Read Kelli Short Borges' interview with Lindsey Pharr, our featured author this week. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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I'm offering a Narrative Poetry Workshop through @smokelong.bsky.social on January 24th! We'll explore prose poetry that calls dreams, clouds, and gods down to earth, before crafting our own.✨⛅
Narrative Poetry with Erin Vachon - SmokeLong Quarterly
Does your narrative seem to lean poetic? Don’t fight the feeling and force a flash. As we bring in the New Year, we’re setting the intention to slow down and explore the narrative poem, line by line. ...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm offering a Narrative Poetry Workshop through @smokelong.bsky.social on January 24th! We'll explore prose poetry that calls dreams, clouds, and gods down to earth, before crafting our own.✨⛅
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Tytyty to @smokelong.bsky.social for this v generous reading of my work, & thanks to Michael for a super fun interview!! Living for all these micros 🥰
Issue 90 of @smokelong.bsky.social is live! What a lineup of amazing authors and stories, including this years Grand Microfiction Contest winners! I got to interview @ktherr.bsky.social about her mind-blowing micro. Just so much amazing work here!
www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/
www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/
Issue Ninety - SmokeLong Quarterly
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December 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tytyty to @smokelong.bsky.social for this v generous reading of my work, & thanks to Michael for a super fun interview!! Living for all these micros 🥰
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Just a couple days left to start in January! We're already letting new particitrousers into the workshop. Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February fo...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just a couple days left to start in January! We're already letting new particitrousers into the workshop. Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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'You might think I have no need for a watch to be waterproof up to a thousand feet, but you’d be wrong. This grief has crushing depths and I am its diver.' Love 'Submariner' by @lapharr.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social! Why not read the whole issue -
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Submariner - SmokeLong Quarterly
I can’t remember this watch not on his body. I do remember him taking it off occasionally, only because I remember the click of its oyster clasp. I can’t recall the ritual of him removing it. Was it b...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'You might think I have no need for a watch to be waterproof up to a thousand feet, but you’d be wrong. This grief has crushing depths and I am its diver.' Love 'Submariner' by @lapharr.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social! Why not read the whole issue -
www.smokelong.com/stories/subm...
www.smokelong.com/stories/subm...
Just a couple days left to start in January! We're already letting new particitrousers into the workshop. Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February fo...
www.smokelong.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just a couple days left to start in January! We're already letting new particitrousers into the workshop. Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Join us on January 24th at 10am ET as Erin Vachon takes us to new poetic places. Flash that leans poetic. Let's do this. If you're in SmokeLong Fitness, this webinar/workshop is included. www.smokelong.com/product/narr...
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Join us on January 24th at 10am ET as Erin Vachon takes us to new poetic places. Flash that leans poetic. Let's do this. If you're in SmokeLong Fitness, this webinar/workshop is included. www.smokelong.com/product/narr...
Do you live in or near Singapore? SmokeLong will be there on Jan 16! Come read with us, or just come and say hello. Sign up to read with the Google form in the comments!
December 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Do you live in or near Singapore? SmokeLong will be there on Jan 16! Come read with us, or just come and say hello. Sign up to read with the Google form in the comments!