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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5h

Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. 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 November and December 2...

www.smokelong.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5h

Curious about the workshop community of SmokeLong Fitness? You can give it a test drive in Nov/Dec. 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 November and December 2...

www.smokelong.com

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Do you shop at Kroger? If so, consider taking a moment to make Sundress Publications your community partner with organization code VQ983. www.kroger.com/signin?redir...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, Sarp!

Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · 1d

Got a new one-sentence story that has first given seed in a hospital waiting room, then progressed in the SmokeLong Fitness (@smokelong.bsky.social), and found its final shape on Complete Sentence (@completesentence.bsky.social) today. Hope you enjoy.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 4d

"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."

@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing

www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

This week's story (with accompanying audio reading by the author) is "The Promise" by Mary Ann McGuigan: www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

The Promise - SmokeLong Quarterly

The envelope in the mail from Daddy had twenty dollars in it and a sentence scribbled on a cocktail napkin that still bore the impression of his glass. He wanted another visit. It was late February. C...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Previously published and unpublished micros considered, fiction, nonfiction, anything in between. Send us that stunning micro published in 2002 that disappeared when the journal went defunct. Or send something new. Deadline Nov 15 www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

"I’ve employed the reflective voice in some memoir pieces, but often I find that when my “present self” enters the picture, events can get reinterpreted and their significance diluted. I strive instead to keep the blinders on." This week's author, Mary Ann McGuigan: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Mary Ann McGuigan - SmokeLong Quarterly

I love the title of this essay—“The Promise.” Of course, we don’t know if this promise is kept or broken. Were you ever tempted to answer this, or was it important to you to leave this particular ques...

www.smokelong.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

❤️❤️❤️

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations, Christina 🎉

Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote a ghost story in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop
and it's published in the fall issue of The Citron Review just in time for spooky season!

Read my flash piece about a cranky teenager ghost & grief here: citronreview.com/2025/10/05/g...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

This week's story (with accompanying audio reading by the author) is "The Promise" by Mary Ann McGuigan: www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

The Promise - SmokeLong Quarterly

The envelope in the mail from Daddy had twenty dollars in it and a sentence scribbled on a cocktail napkin that still bore the impression of his glass. He wanted another visit. It was late February. C...

www.smokelong.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d

"I’ve employed the reflective voice in some memoir pieces, but often I find that when my “present self” enters the picture, events can get reinterpreted and their significance diluted. I strive instead to keep the blinders on." This week's author, Mary Ann McGuigan: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Mary Ann McGuigan - SmokeLong Quarterly

I love the title of this essay—“The Promise.” Of course, we don’t know if this promise is kept or broken. Were you ever tempted to answer this, or was it important to you to leave this particular ques...

www.smokelong.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure, but maybe this one (with incredible original art): www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

The Dead Are Not Hungry - SmokeLong Quarterly

The beekeeper’s zombie-daughter wears a single red ribbon in her hair. He cooks a meal and she stands in the window blank-staring. Her fingers trace on the window, but she can’t know to draw, to make ...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5d

Look what came in the mail today! If you're in SmokeLong Fitness, Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee is our featured collection in our December reading group (discount code is in the workshop). Support Melissa and Santa Fe Writers Project! Buy books! www.sfwp.com/books

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5d

Yay!

LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 5d

ooooh! my #flash #fiction of empowerment just dropped today on #EmergeLiteraryJournal!
@smokelong.bsky.social fam 🙏for your early support in workshop🤗

looking for a lil’ happy ending in these trying times? check it out 👇

emergeliteraryjournal.com/judgment-day/

Judgment Day

by LM Fontanes Olivia knows the cat is judging her. Now that Matt took off with his dog and six Stop & Shop bags crammed with possessions, it’s pretty clear the cat blames her for the sho…

emergeliteraryjournal.com

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 7d

Do it! The SmokeLong Fellowship not only helped improve my writing, but it also made my hair glossier and my skin better*!

*some statements may not be factual.

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

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...

www.smokelong.com

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 6d

Love #FlashFiction? Love #SpeculativeFiction? Join me for this @smokelong.bsky.social #WritingWorkshop and I'll give you the tools to write speculative fiction as metaphor, one of my FAVOURITE THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE:

www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

#Writing #WritingCommunity

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 6d

Join SmokeLong for a mysterious month between November and December we’ve christened Promptember! We’ll be meeting several times a week online with live write-in and open mic events at various times to suit participants around this spinning globe, 100% free.
www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 6d

Yay!!!!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 6d

Join SmokeLong for a mysterious month between November and December we’ve christened Promptember! We’ll be meeting several times a week online with live write-in and open mic events at various times to suit participants around this spinning globe, 100% free.
www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

Here is the updated cover art for issue 89. The previous cover art (above) has been removed from the site out of respect for the literary journal who used it first a few weeks before our issue came out. We just became aware of this last night.

A person apparently sitting on the edge of a high-rise building, legs hanging over the side.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

a woman in a blue robe is laying on a bed next to a small white dog

ALT: a woman in a blue robe is laying on a bed next to a small white dog

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

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...

www.smokelong.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

Here is the updated cover art for issue 89. The previous cover art (above) has been removed from the site out of respect for the literary journal who used it first a few weeks before our issue came out. We just became aware of this last night.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

Yay!!!!

Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social · 8d

So excited to share my new story out today in @fictivedream.bsky.social !! Thanks to editor Laura Black for selecting this story, and thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social for their workshop where this was born!🍂 🍁 🍂

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 8d

"So, this lady’s looking at me with more desperation than I’ve ever seen in someone’s eyes..." Divine Intervention by Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/10/05/d...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

Of course we won't get the $200 we paid for the art back, but we don't see any other option here. And we do understand that everyone's just trying to make a living. #losingsleep

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