@janelmanstout.bsky.social
Drumroll please… @smokelong.bsky.social
Announcing the outrageously good shortlist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025, aka The Smokey. Please feel free to celebrate but please do not identify your story as judging is still in progress. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Shortlist - SmokeLong Quarterly
Thank you to everyone who has sent work to The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, or as we affectionately call it The Smokey. Our team of 14 judges from seven countries around this troubled ...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Drumroll please… @smokelong.bsky.social
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Our featured author from the current issue of SmokeLong Quarterly this week is @sammatin.bsky.social⭐ Read Sam's interview by @sudhab.bsky.social here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
The text and audio of Sam's story, "People Of Color Monologue", is here: www.smokelong.com/stories/peop...
The text and audio of Sam's story, "People Of Color Monologue", is here: www.smokelong.com/stories/peop...
Smoke & Mirrors with Sam Matin - SmokeLong Quarterly
Nadiya is from Detroit while Ali is Arab and Persian and Areeba is Bangladeshi. How important was it for you to choose characters who might not come from the same geographic area or ethnicity but shar...
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February 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our featured author from the current issue of SmokeLong Quarterly this week is @sammatin.bsky.social⭐ Read Sam's interview by @sudhab.bsky.social here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
The text and audio of Sam's story, "People Of Color Monologue", is here: www.smokelong.com/stories/peop...
The text and audio of Sam's story, "People Of Color Monologue", is here: www.smokelong.com/stories/peop...
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Our month of Steve Almond masterclasses starts tomorrow! Brilliant openers, unforgettable characters, irresistible narrators, and the wrangling of time! Register for one or for all: www.writingco-lab.com/classes
February 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Our month of Steve Almond masterclasses starts tomorrow! Brilliant openers, unforgettable characters, irresistible narrators, and the wrangling of time! Register for one or for all: www.writingco-lab.com/classes
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Writers we're a little over 1/3 sold out for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/12/25!
Which means:
1. We still have tickets, but
2. They're going faster than usual so far, and
3. We've sold out the past 2 years in DC
Join us for a great day! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
Which means:
1. We still have tickets, but
2. They're going faster than usual so far, and
3. We've sold out the past 2 years in DC
Join us for a great day! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
The Barrelhouse Conference: Conversations and Connections, Practical Advice on Writing — Barrelhouse
Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at American University in Washington, DC on April 12, 2025.
www.barrelhousemag.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Writers we're a little over 1/3 sold out for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/12/25!
Which means:
1. We still have tickets, but
2. They're going faster than usual so far, and
3. We've sold out the past 2 years in DC
Join us for a great day! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
Which means:
1. We still have tickets, but
2. They're going faster than usual so far, and
3. We've sold out the past 2 years in DC
Join us for a great day! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
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If you've never had the joy of taking a writing class from @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social, you're in for a treat🙂
Join SmokeLong on Feb 22 at 11am NYC for "Physicality in Flash" with Dr. Finnian Burnett!
www.smokelong.com/product/phys...
www.smokelong.com/product/phys...
Physicality in Flash with Dr. Finnian Burnett - SmokeLong Quarterly
Flash fiction is most compelling when it’s alive. Writing about the human body, bringing in the visceral experience of our scars, pain and joy can heighten the tension in our flash stories. In this ge...
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February 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you've never had the joy of taking a writing class from @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social, you're in for a treat🙂
Congratulations to all the writers whose terrific micros made this list! Bravo! 🎉🎊
Announcing the long list for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 18, 2023 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to all the writers whose terrific micros made this list! Bravo! 🎉🎊
Time 4 you to submit
It’s 44 days till #TheMikey deadline. SmokeLong trivia: 4 is EIC @Christopher_All’s favorite number. Which makes 44 one of the best countdown days there is, for him. Here he is with a reminder of what we’re looking for in this all-tiny-star competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS6ulpl8dmc
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 - "The Mikey"
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September 28, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Time 4 you to submit
Just signed up for @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s Flash Collection &Flash Novella workshop at Cleaver Magazine. Can’t wait 🔥💥
September 21, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Just signed up for @writesofkathryn.bsky.social’s Flash Collection &Flash Novella workshop at Cleaver Magazine. Can’t wait 🔥💥
Galatea, Pygmalion, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social up @havehashad.com 🔥🔥
Thrilled to have a new story in @havehashad.com! Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social. This story was first born in a @smokelong.bsky.social Summer workshop, so thanks to @janelmanstout.bsky.social and Shasta Grant, and my awesome workshop mates.
www.havehashad.com
www.havehashad.com
September 21, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Galatea, Pygmalion, and @kimmagowan.bsky.social up @havehashad.com 🔥🔥
It’s here! 🎊🎉
Issue 81 is live. Read these 12 amazing stories, including five of the best from all those we loved in A SmokeLong Summer. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible. https://www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty-one/
September 18, 2023 at 7:07 PM
It’s here! 🎊🎉
A peak at tomorrow’s treat 🔥
It’s cover reveal time! The 12 wonderful stories of Issue 81 will be before your very eyes tomorrow, Monday 18th. What a treat we have in store for you.
September 17, 2023 at 7:41 PM
A peak at tomorrow’s treat 🔥
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Very excited to have new words out today as part of
@smokelong.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations. A craft essay about time in @saralippmann.bsky.social's #flashfiction "Wolf Cry":
www.smokelong.com/time-as-a-sn...
@smokelong.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations. A craft essay about time in @saralippmann.bsky.social's #flashfiction "Wolf Cry":
www.smokelong.com/time-as-a-sn...
Time as a snowstorm: An exploration of time in 'Wolf Cry' by Sara Lippmann - SmokeLong Quarterly
The following review is part of SmokeLong’s 20th-anniversary series looking back at beloved narratives in our archive. If you write reviews and you want to celebrate a particular narrative from the ...
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September 12, 2023 at 10:39 AM
Very excited to have new words out today as part of
@smokelong.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations. A craft essay about time in @saralippmann.bsky.social's #flashfiction "Wolf Cry":
www.smokelong.com/time-as-a-sn...
@smokelong.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations. A craft essay about time in @saralippmann.bsky.social's #flashfiction "Wolf Cry":
www.smokelong.com/time-as-a-sn...
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Writers! Join us at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23 for a great day talking craft/publishing, meeting w editors, and supporting some great litmags and presses! More than half your $75 reg fee goes directly to those presses! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
Barrelhouse Conference Conversations and Connections — Barrelhouse
Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by
Barrelhouse in person at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA on September
23, 2023.
www.barrelhousemag.com
September 12, 2023 at 11:44 PM
Writers! Join us at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23 for a great day talking craft/publishing, meeting w editors, and supporting some great litmags and presses! More than half your $75 reg fee goes directly to those presses! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
Cicadas are clumsy flyers who fly up to 500 feet. This one visited me yesterday. I live on the 25th floor of a high rise. Surely a sign if he can do this I can finish writing my story collection.
September 7, 2023 at 4:27 PM
Cicadas are clumsy flyers who fly up to 500 feet. This one visited me yesterday. I live on the 25th floor of a high rise. Surely a sign if he can do this I can finish writing my story collection.
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Seems like a good night to sign up for the
@barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23! Registration is $75, spots are limited. Gonna be a great day nerding out about writing/publishing with other writer/editor nerds of all kinds. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference/
@barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23! Registration is $75, spots are limited. Gonna be a great day nerding out about writing/publishing with other writer/editor nerds of all kinds. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference/
Barrelhouse Conference Conversations and Connections — Barrelhouse
Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by
Barrelhouse in person at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA on September
23, 2023.
www.barrelhousemag.com
September 5, 2023 at 12:11 AM
Seems like a good night to sign up for the
@barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23! Registration is $75, spots are limited. Gonna be a great day nerding out about writing/publishing with other writer/editor nerds of all kinds. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference/
@barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in Philly on 9/23! Registration is $75, spots are limited. Gonna be a great day nerding out about writing/publishing with other writer/editor nerds of all kinds. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference/
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Have you ever re-read a flash fiction piece because of its imagery, atmosphere, or just to linger over the lines?
Join me for my SmokeLong Afterglow module, where we'll read and unpick some fab flash, and then produce prose that POPS! 🫧
And do check out the rest of the programme, here:
Join me for my SmokeLong Afterglow module, where we'll read and unpick some fab flash, and then produce prose that POPS! 🫧
And do check out the rest of the programme, here:
Summer should be SmokeLong-er. Until Oct 1, book a three-pack of Afterglow events and receive a link to enter up to 4 micros in The Mikey for free! Check them out: https://www.smokelong.com/afterglow-2023-the-summer-is-not-enough/
https://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-grand-micro-competition-2023/
https://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-grand-micro-competition-2023/
Afterglow 2023 - The Summer is not Enough - SmokeLong Quarterly
This fall SmokeLong is offering a series of events combining webinars, peer-review workshopping, and feedback from the webinar presenters for those of you who want to extend the summer into the autumn...
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September 4, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Have you ever re-read a flash fiction piece because of its imagery, atmosphere, or just to linger over the lines?
Join me for my SmokeLong Afterglow module, where we'll read and unpick some fab flash, and then produce prose that POPS! 🫧
And do check out the rest of the programme, here:
Join me for my SmokeLong Afterglow module, where we'll read and unpick some fab flash, and then produce prose that POPS! 🫧
And do check out the rest of the programme, here:
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Familiar with the SmokeLong Workshop Prize? If you've published anything that began in any SmokeLong workshop, your work is eligible. Deadline in November. Entry is free. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize - SmokeLong Quarterly
SmokeLong began offering workshops in person in 2019. We toured the UK–London, Norwich, Birmingham, and Manchester (which is definitely NOT in the Midlands)–and we had the best time. Then COVID ca...
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September 2, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Familiar with the SmokeLong Workshop Prize? If you've published anything that began in any SmokeLong workshop, your work is eligible. Deadline in November. Entry is free. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
Watching Teletubbies, singing the Hallelujah Chorus, and drinking rosé with my daughter and 2 and 5 yr. old granddaughters (wine adults only). Just your typical long weekend.
September 5, 2023 at 12:22 AM
Watching Teletubbies, singing the Hallelujah Chorus, and drinking rosé with my daughter and 2 and 5 yr. old granddaughters (wine adults only). Just your typical long weekend.
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Someone actually just booked a FOUR-pack because they couldn't decide on just three. If you want to do more than three, just email us and we'll work out a price. editor@smokelong.com
Ahh, the summer workshop. SO many stories. So much fun. And now it's AFTERGLOW! 8 AWESOME modules, each with live webinar, 5-day peer workshop and story critique from the presenter. AND Until Oct 1, get a link to enter up to 4 micros in The Mikey for free when you book a 3-pack!
September 4, 2023 at 3:43 PM
Someone actually just booked a FOUR-pack because they couldn't decide on just three. If you want to do more than three, just email us and we'll work out a price. editor@smokelong.com
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Starting in 2 days!
4 weeks, #SFF #writing #Onlineclass
Read and write your own fantastical stories, at your own pace.
writers.com/course/specu...
4 weeks, #SFF #writing #Onlineclass
Read and write your own fantastical stories, at your own pace.
writers.com/course/specu...
Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, Fantasy, & More | Writers.com
Speculative fiction isn't just warp drives and magic wands; it's anything that makes us question reality. Learn how to wield the fantastic in your fiction.
writers.com
September 4, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Starting in 2 days!
4 weeks, #SFF #writing #Onlineclass
Read and write your own fantastical stories, at your own pace.
writers.com/course/specu...
4 weeks, #SFF #writing #Onlineclass
Read and write your own fantastical stories, at your own pace.
writers.com/course/specu...
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Each of these shiny gems of flash wisdom is also available as a live webinar-only option for $29, or you can book all 8 webinars-only at the respectable discount of $185. Afterglow. Keeping the hot writing-person summer alive a bit longer. www.smokelong.com/product/afte...
September 4, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Each of these shiny gems of flash wisdom is also available as a live webinar-only option for $29, or you can book all 8 webinars-only at the respectable discount of $185. Afterglow. Keeping the hot writing-person summer alive a bit longer. www.smokelong.com/product/afte...
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Join @shorterbc.bsky.social to discuss @sfreligh.bsky.social's A Brief Natural History of Women on September 19th at 7:30 PM! Sarah will be coming by for a Q&A!
RSVP: abriefnaturalhistoryofwomen.eventbrite.com
RSVP: abriefnaturalhistoryofwomen.eventbrite.com
September 3, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Join @shorterbc.bsky.social to discuss @sfreligh.bsky.social's A Brief Natural History of Women on September 19th at 7:30 PM! Sarah will be coming by for a Q&A!
RSVP: abriefnaturalhistoryofwomen.eventbrite.com
RSVP: abriefnaturalhistoryofwomen.eventbrite.com
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I've had a lovely day working on feedback reports for a novella & a novel. Would love to have more novel(la) editing projects to work on in the autumn. If this sounds like it might be useful for you, get in touch. Details here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/novel-editing
#writers #histfic #fantasy #flash
#writers #histfic #fantasy #flash
August 31, 2023 at 3:27 PM
I've had a lovely day working on feedback reports for a novella & a novel. Would love to have more novel(la) editing projects to work on in the autumn. If this sounds like it might be useful for you, get in touch. Details here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/novel-editing
#writers #histfic #fantasy #flash
#writers #histfic #fantasy #flash
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Free online writing workshops: there's enough in the Crow Collective Tip Jar to cover 3 workshops. If you can really use a free writing workshop spot, please get in touch, I will provide one. No questions asked. crowcollectiveworkshops.com/contact/
#WritingCommunity #Flash #FlashLit #Writers
#WritingCommunity #Flash #FlashLit #Writers
August 31, 2023 at 11:42 AM
Free online writing workshops: there's enough in the Crow Collective Tip Jar to cover 3 workshops. If you can really use a free writing workshop spot, please get in touch, I will provide one. No questions asked. crowcollectiveworkshops.com/contact/
#WritingCommunity #Flash #FlashLit #Writers
#WritingCommunity #Flash #FlashLit #Writers