Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉
@erinvachon.bsky.social
Senior Reviews Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor, Split/Lip Press
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Turn every Target into affordable housing. I don't think they'll be needing those buildings much longer.
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Turn every Target into affordable housing. I don't think they'll be needing those buildings much longer.
Think of all the Jesses and Célines meeting. 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Think of all the Jesses and Célines meeting. 🖤
I have adjusted my rubric for success after overhearing a group of femme students in the college halls today, talking about their group presentation:
No one wore sweatpants.
No one threw up.
No one cried.
WE DID AMAZING.
No one wore sweatpants.
No one threw up.
No one cried.
WE DID AMAZING.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I have adjusted my rubric for success after overhearing a group of femme students in the college halls today, talking about their group presentation:
No one wore sweatpants.
No one threw up.
No one cried.
WE DID AMAZING.
No one wore sweatpants.
No one threw up.
No one cried.
WE DID AMAZING.
I'm not going to justify the necessity of art anymore, it's pointless, tada, there. If you're looking for the utility of art for funding, no. I will not.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I'm not going to justify the necessity of art anymore, it's pointless, tada, there. If you're looking for the utility of art for funding, no. I will not.
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Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
Look, I’m not going to make it through the horrors without gallows humor, but I’ve learned the hard way that when someone punches down for laughs in front of you, the things they’ll actually do when you’re not looking are far worse.
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Look, I’m not going to make it through the horrors without gallows humor, but I’ve learned the hard way that when someone punches down for laughs in front of you, the things they’ll actually do when you’re not looking are far worse.
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I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I spent a lot of time today talking with folks or answering questions about my novella that’s coming out in February with @splitlippress.com and it’s really cool to see there might be readers out there who respond to this weird little creature. On presale now! www.splitlippress.com/krackles-las...
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The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza brings death toll since ceasefire to 280
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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Not only has the inequity in the arts never been been more extreme, but the sheer complicity of our country in outright violence—to immigrants, to our queer communities, to the disabled, to Palestine—is greater than our normalcy and awards.
These things beg for acknowledgment. They cry out.
These things beg for acknowledgment. They cry out.
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Not only has the inequity in the arts never been been more extreme, but the sheer complicity of our country in outright violence—to immigrants, to our queer communities, to the disabled, to Palestine—is greater than our normalcy and awards.
These things beg for acknowledgment. They cry out.
These things beg for acknowledgment. They cry out.
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literary couples t-shirt idea:
> MONSTER LOVES HIS LABYRINTH
> I'M HIS LABYRINTH
> MONSTER LOVES HIS LABYRINTH
> I'M HIS LABYRINTH
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
literary couples t-shirt idea:
> MONSTER LOVES HIS LABYRINTH
> I'M HIS LABYRINTH
> MONSTER LOVES HIS LABYRINTH
> I'M HIS LABYRINTH
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When you're writing a love scene and it's flowing really well (in more ways than one) and then you suddenly pause with your fingers poised over the keyboard and ask aloud "Where are his pants?"
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
When you're writing a love scene and it's flowing really well (in more ways than one) and then you suddenly pause with your fingers poised over the keyboard and ask aloud "Where are his pants?"
that depressive knife’s edge when being social could boost you up or make you completely crash out
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
that depressive knife’s edge when being social could boost you up or make you completely crash out
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it never occurred to me that the secret to becoming a wildly successful writer was to be a terrible writer
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
it never occurred to me that the secret to becoming a wildly successful writer was to be a terrible writer
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The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
Santa Clara University Students Read the Queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This week students from Claudia Monpere’s flash fiction course read our submission queue! Here is our interview with the students: Who are you? We’re a mix of creative writing minors and business and...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
If…if I’m nonbinary, do I drink both the original and female-focused, or neither? Will Guava Lava sway my gender?
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If…if I’m nonbinary, do I drink both the original and female-focused, or neither? Will Guava Lava sway my gender?
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We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption.
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We've never been so proud to be misaligned! Your support keeps us doing the thing this administration sees as a threat and a disruption.
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
We could do this forever. Stay the course with us by making a tax deductible donation at the link in our bio! 🔥
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Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Please help us welcome five new readers to our 2026 Short Story/Flash Fiction reading team! Joining returning readers Elena, Victoria, Kaleena, Aysha, and Kim (and SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social ), please say hello to Blake, Elaina, Allison, Nirica, and Gina!
Keep chewing on the way that pain can cleave you open like you’re the first to ever feel it, or wake you up to everyone who feels it, too. I know I’ve been both people at different points. Just trying to figure out how we all get through this collective mess, nbd.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Keep chewing on the way that pain can cleave you open like you’re the first to ever feel it, or wake you up to everyone who feels it, too. I know I’ve been both people at different points. Just trying to figure out how we all get through this collective mess, nbd.
I got a lot of stuff done this weekend, and my inbox feels like less of an avalanche, so I'm slightly suspicious.
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I got a lot of stuff done this weekend, and my inbox feels like less of an avalanche, so I'm slightly suspicious.
what else is there but this
Prince - The Beautiful Ones from Purple Rain HD
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November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
what else is there but this
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Keyword: “back,” as if the centre of literary fiction was masculinity’s rightful place all along. How deeply predictable and boring.
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Keyword: “back,” as if the centre of literary fiction was masculinity’s rightful place all along. How deeply predictable and boring.
I heard someone say recently they'd used a spirit box to communicate with a ghost, and the ghost said "I don't know–I just like moving stuff," which is the funniest possible thing a ghost could ever say. I cannot stop thinking about a ghost who picks shit up and puts stuff down for funzies.
Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I heard someone say recently they'd used a spirit box to communicate with a ghost, and the ghost said "I don't know–I just like moving stuff," which is the funniest possible thing a ghost could ever say. I cannot stop thinking about a ghost who picks shit up and puts stuff down for funzies.
I met a guy named James Hurley tonight, and regretfully, he could not answer my Twin Peaks questions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I met a guy named James Hurley tonight, and regretfully, he could not answer my Twin Peaks questions.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated