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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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4d
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. 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 December and January fo...
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It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January, and we're sending out invitations today to join the onboarding small group for December. Come write with us! We are with 100% certainly absolutely not a cult. 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 December and January fo...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
It's time to nominate your favorite literary journals for Chill Subs' Best Lit Mag Awards 2025! Send five journals all the love! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Yay!!!!! What a great journal. Congratulations, Allison!
allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social · 1d
such a dream publication for me!!!
@riverteeth.bsky.social 💕

I read this essay at the @smokelong.bsky.social AWP reading this past year

riverteethjournal.com/print-journal/
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Yay!!!! Congratulations, Johannah!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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BIO: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half-moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming at @smokelong.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social…
Mizuki
Mizuki is a writer of literary and speculative fiction exploring the thresholds between body and spirit, memory and forgetting, the natural and the surreal.
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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this @aimee-bender.bsky.social flash shared in @smokelong.bsky.social’s fitness prompt this week has me feeling some kind of way. give “Organs” a read if you haven’t yet. haunting and gorgeous on so many levels.

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Organs - SmokeLong Quarterly
Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs. You cannot safely empty them slowly, explains the doctor, as they hook hi...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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allisonfieldbell.bsky.social
Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕

Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social

Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more

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We Write Our Obsessions: An Interview with ALLISON FIELD BELL | Fractured
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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iamagnat.bsky.social
Join us...*not a cult*. Lovely to meet other writers.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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We are writing with abandon. Promptember. Sign up and start writing with us next week. It's free. This one's on us. 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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November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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smokelong.bsky.social
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. 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 December and January fo...
www.smokelong.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Congratulations, Laura!
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
smokelong.bsky.social
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. 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 December and January fo...
www.smokelong.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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smokelong.bsky.social
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
smokelong.bsky.social
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
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taniahershman.bsky.social
Honoured to be this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social flash fiction judge! Send me your word-shapes of 250 words & under, the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules! bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit... #flashfiction
Screenshot of the Meet the Judges page from the Bridport Prize with a black and white photograph of a woman with very short hair grinning, and the following text: "Tania Hershman Flash Fiction Judge Line Break Tania Hershman is a queer writer of odd things, the author of three collections of short stories and flash fiction, four books of poetry and two hybrid books. Tania’s creative-non-fiction hybrid book on Time is forthcoming from Guillemot Press. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of First-Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty, offers monthly writing prompts/provocations/exercises through Unbox Your Words – Give Yourself Permission to Play on Substack, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics.  www.taniahershman.com Instagram: @tania_hershman_writes “What I am always looking for is a voice that grabs me right from the first words so that I have no choice but to carry on reading. This might be a character, or a narrator, but what I want is freshness of language. No need for long fancy words or complicated plots, just write what only you can write in the way you want to write it. And send me the pieces you think only you might love, that might be “too strange” or “not quite enough…” There are no rules!” Tania Hershman, Flash Fiction Judge What I wish someone had told me when I was starting out: That everyone does it differently, this writing thing. That there definitely isn’t “one way” to write, and that each writer probably has more than one way. You find what works for you, and no-one else can tell you what you “should” or “shouldn’t” do. There are no rules! When I’m stuck, this is what helps me move forward: I don’t ever think of myself as “stuck”, I call it a “creative pause”, and for me that really is how it feels. I don’t write every day, sometimes a few weeks will go by. I let it be, I don’t feel bad about it. I feed myself – by reading, watching TV, films, going for a walk. "
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Counting is hard!
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 8d
I don't want to alarm anyone, but it's now just TWO WEEKS until entries open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026!!!

However, if you count like @smokelong.bsky.social (this is a thing apparently), it may also be 13 days, 71 elephants or 0.035 rotations around the sun...
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 24d
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Yay!!!! Congratulations, Liz!
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Congratulations, Belinda!!
belindarowe.bsky.social Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social · 9d
We Are Dingo Pack
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Huge thanks to Amanda Saint at @retreatwest.bsky.social for publishing my story & @smokelong.bsky.social editors where this story began, including SLF crew who provided feedback. Honoured to be in such GREAT company in the Threshold Edition!
We Are Dingo Pack
A Flash Fiction by Belinda Rowe
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November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
smokelong.bsky.social
Yay!!!!
tracieadams.bsky.social Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 9d
Y’all!

“Our Lives in Pieces” is a FINALIST for the 2025 IAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS!

Many thanks to the judges and to all my @smokelong.bsky.social groupies who helped me so much. At 58, it was my first published book, and I hope to keep on rolling…💃🏼
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
smokelong.bsky.social
And that's a wrap. Thank you to all who entered The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. Now we have a ton of micros to read. We'll have a long list soon. Stay tuned!
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
smokelong.bsky.social
20 minutes left! Deadline: midnight ET. 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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November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
smokelong.bsky.social
One hour. That's 60 minutes. That's enough time to get your killer micros in. Get on this and get it done. Midnight ET. 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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November 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
smokelong.bsky.social
You kind of officially have like 1.5 hours to get your micro in. The Mikey awards at least $2500 in prize money to great work under 250 words. 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...
www.smokelong.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM