Sherrie Flick
@sherrieflick.bsky.social
Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ
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Sherrie Flick
@sherrieflick.bsky.social
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Great review of I Have Not Considered Consequences in the P-G 🌟 Big thanks to Jeffrey Condran for the close read. 🐻🩷
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Tonight! Austin! Bookwoman 7pm
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tonight! Austin! Bookwoman 7pm
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San Antonio! I’ll be reading with the amazing @sherrieflick.bsky.social at @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social on Saturday (6 PM)! We’d love to see you!
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
San Antonio! I’ll be reading with the amazing @sherrieflick.bsky.social at @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social on Saturday (6 PM)! We’d love to see you!
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Texas, check it out!
I’m Texas bound this Friday and Saturday, reading from my new story collection I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES in Austin and San Antonio! Come on out. It will be a fine time with Ramona Reeves and Andrew Porter 🌟 📕 🐻
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Texas, check it out!
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The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Saturday after this one is now this Saturday, because that’s how time goes. This means that as of midnight NYC tonight, Tuesday Nov 11, there will be 96 hours to enter the 250-word, $1,000-top-prize SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025. Please let this be right. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
I’m Texas bound this Friday and Saturday, reading from my new story collection I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES in Austin and San Antonio! Come on out. It will be a fine time with Ramona Reeves and Andrew Porter 🌟 📕 🐻
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
@thetwigbookshop.bsky.social
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
@thetwigbookshop.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m Texas bound this Friday and Saturday, reading from my new story collection I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES in Austin and San Antonio! Come on out. It will be a fine time with Ramona Reeves and Andrew Porter 🌟 📕 🐻
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
@thetwigbookshop.bsky.social
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
@thetwigbookshop.bsky.social
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Well. We know today is Monday. We know #TheMikey ends midnight NYC, Saturday Nov 15. We know there're 6, 5, or 4 days left, depending who's counting. We know we once confidently ran a contest countdown that ended two days before the deadline and had to style it out. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Well. We know today is Monday. We know #TheMikey ends midnight NYC, Saturday Nov 15. We know there're 6, 5, or 4 days left, depending who's counting. We know we once confidently ran a contest countdown that ended two days before the deadline and had to style it out. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
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One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?
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The editor who has control of the cursor right now thinks there are 10 days left to enter #TheMikey, because it’s open until midnight on November 15, so November 15 is totally one (1) day, no I won’t give it back
Okay so every year we fight about how countdowns work, so this time we're just doing a choose-your-own-countdown countdown where you do the math, because we can't. The comp ends the Saturday after this one. You're more likely to know how many days that is than us.
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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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November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The editor who has control of the cursor right now thinks there are 10 days left to enter #TheMikey, because it’s open until midnight on November 15, so November 15 is totally one (1) day, no I won’t give it back
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The 2026 CAAPP Book Prize is now open!
The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free.
This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.
The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free.
This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The 2026 CAAPP Book Prize is now open!
The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free.
This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.
The submission deadline is December 15th, 2025, and the winning manuscript will be published by AHP & receive a $3,000 prize. As always, submissions are free.
This year's final judge is Ladan Osman.
I’m heading to Texas in November!
At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I’m heading to Texas in November!
At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
At Bookwoman 11/14, Austin and The Twig Book Shop 11/15, San Antonio - in conversation with Ramona Reeves and reading with Andrew Porter 🐻 Would love to see you there! 📕
@autumnhousepress.bsky.social
Lemon tart for Beth 💛
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lemon tart for Beth 💛
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Time to celebrate the achievements of our amazing workshop participants again: www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – October 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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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Time to celebrate the achievements of our amazing workshop participants again: www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
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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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Join AHP author @sherrieflick.bsky.social for a reading from her story collection "I Have Not Considered Consequences" in Squirrel Hill this week! Q&A to follow 🐻🧡
Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill
When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill
When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
www.carnegielibrary.org/event/an-eve...
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Join AHP author @sherrieflick.bsky.social for a reading from her story collection "I Have Not Considered Consequences" in Squirrel Hill this week! Q&A to follow 🐻🧡
Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill
When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
www.carnegielibrary.org/event/an-eve...
Where: Carnegie Library in Squirrel Hill
When: Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
www.carnegielibrary.org/event/an-eve...
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Emerging writer? Write flash? Feeling isolated? We'd love to help you reach that next step. Apply for The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Emerging writer? Write flash? Feeling isolated? We'd love to help you reach that next step. Apply for The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
I have a new micro up at Ghost Parachute for their 9th anniversary! Amazing lineup in the full issue. 🪂
Read "Whatever" written by @sherrieflick.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr.
"Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool."
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"Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool."
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Whatever — Ghost Parachute
Don’s dad liked to say whatever when the kids were around. He thought it was cool—like the word “cool” used to be cool. Sammy asked for a Coke and Don’s dad said, “Whatever,” and Sammy didn’t know if ...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have a new micro up at Ghost Parachute for their 9th anniversary! Amazing lineup in the full issue. 🪂
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Congratulations to Daniel Garcia, past SmokeLong Fellow: lambdaliterary.org/2025/09/dani...
Daniel Garcia Wins the 2025 Denneny Prize for Editorial Excellence
Danie Garcia wins the 2025 Denneny Prize for Editorial Excellence! Read the announcement here.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Congratulations to Daniel Garcia, past SmokeLong Fellow: lambdaliterary.org/2025/09/dani...
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"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Aimee Bender - SmokeLong Quarterly
You have three threads woven together here—the story of your father, of the taxed sump pump, and of Joni Mitchell making music—and it’s all seamless and brilliant. Are you on the lookout for events li...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
👉🏻This Friday, September 26! 7pm at La Roche University I’ll read from and discuss my memoir-in-essays, HOMING: INSTINCTS OF A RUSTBELT FEMINIST - free - fun 🏠 @univnebpress.bsky.social #booksky #cnf #essays #pittsburgh #supportartists
September 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
👉🏻This Friday, September 26! 7pm at La Roche University I’ll read from and discuss my memoir-in-essays, HOMING: INSTINCTS OF A RUSTBELT FEMINIST - free - fun 🏠 @univnebpress.bsky.social #booksky #cnf #essays #pittsburgh #supportartists
I’m reading next Tuesday, September 23, at Upper St. Clair Township Library! Free, fun. 🐻 🏠 6:30 #essays #flashfiction #booksky
Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306...
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Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306...
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September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m reading next Tuesday, September 23, at Upper St. Clair Township Library! Free, fun. 🐻 🏠 6:30 #essays #flashfiction #booksky
Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306...
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Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306...
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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
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✨ New SmokeLong issue! We've got CNF by AIMEE BENDER and an incredible assortment of flash writers!! ✨
Issue 89 with new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in our Master Series, is live! Work by established writers and those new to the form rubbing elbows in this issue. All rare gems by writers from around the globe. So proud of everyone in this issue. www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
September 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
✨ New SmokeLong issue! We've got CNF by AIMEE BENDER and an incredible assortment of flash writers!! ✨
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PSA! We're reading for the March issue now. Our September issue goes live on Monday.
September 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
PSA! We're reading for the March issue now. Our September issue goes live on Monday.
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Happy first book birthday to HOMING by @sherrieflick.bsky.social!
HOMING is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt with essays braiding and unbraiding.
HOMING is a feminist anti-nostalgic intervention in writing about the Rustbelt with essays braiding and unbraiding.
Happy Book Birthday to Homing
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (Nebraska, 2024) by Sherrie Flick. About the Book: Homing traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the region’s before and its after.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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