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Kelly Pedro
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Winner CRAFT '24 Flash Prose Prize • Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Prize, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Cleaver, Flash Frog, Fictive Dream, Moon City Review, Tahoma Literary Review, JMWW ++• SmokeLong Fellow '24
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It's always a bummer to make it onto a shortlist and not make it all the way through, but I'm genuinely so excited for everyone on this list. I can't wait to read what I know will be some of my new favourite flash! Thanks for all your work @smokelong.bsky.social editors — and Fellows! #FlashFiction
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Winners. First Place: “Between Chamisa and Rengyō” by Mizuki Yamagen Second Place: “Man Spelt Backwards” by Chi Pham Third Place: “Special Occasion Italian Restaurant” by Valerie Fox Finalists: “Ms. Pac-Man in the Maze” by Sarah Chin “National Bird” by Jesse Ackles “Savior” by Seth Gleckman “(They Long To Be) Close to You” by Binh Do “Wild Gazelle” by Glenn Orgias “Zombie Duck” by Sara Hills
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Thrilled that my story "Inheritance" will be in this anthology of Portuguese Canadian writers, coming out June 2025 with Arquipélago Press. Order it from your favourite indie bookstore!

#CanadianWriters #Writing #WritingCommunity #PortugueseWriters
A blue book cover on the left titled, HERE AND ELSEWHERE: An Anthology of Portuguese Canadian writers. On the right are a list of contributing authors: Kelly Pedro, Paul Serralheiro, Irene Marques, Richard Simas, Robert Piva Fielding, Sonja Pinto, paulo da costa, Esmeralda Cabral, Emanuel Melo, Sonia Nicholson, Humberto da Silva, José Avelino Gilles, Corbett Lourenco.
April 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Book mail is the best mail. Thank you @rosemetalpress.bsky.social and CRAFT Literary!
Four craft books on a couch: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Flash Nonfiction, a novellas in flash.
April 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Um, yeah, so this happened! Thanks @megpokrass.bsky.social for choosing my weird flash about grief as one of the winners of the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize. "Pareidolia" will be published April 11 with my craft essay about how this story came to be (hint: it was in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness)!
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The next meeting of @waterlooregionwws.bsky.social is Sunday! Your work deserves to be out in the world. Join us as we share information about open submission calls. Set aside time to submit your creative work this month. We'd love to see you March 23, 1-3 at the Visitor Information Centre.
Submit and come to our next meeting. March 23, 1-3 pm. Visitor Information Centre, 10 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo. Bring a submission-ready story or query letter, and a laptop.
March 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I'm launching a Waterloo Region chapter of Women Who Submit. If you're a woman or non-binary writer living in Waterloo Region with the goal of publishing more stories in 2025, join the newest chapter of Women Who Submit @waterlooregionwws.bsky.social. Our first meeting is Jan. 19! Details 👇
Women Who Submit Waterloo Region Chapter Launch. When: Jan. 19, 1-3 p.m. Where: Visitor Information Centre, 10 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo. IG: @WaterlooRegion_WWS. Bluesky: @WaterlooRegionWWS
January 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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One of the best parts of being a writer is celebrating with other writers. More than a year ago, I was in a coffee shop talking to Adelle Purdham about her forthcoming memoir-in-essays and now it's here! #BookLaunched #BookCookies #WritingCommunity
Cover of a book I DON'T DO DISABILITY AND OTHER LIES I'VE TOLD MYSELF next to a cookie with the same book cover and a yellow star cookie.
November 20, 2024 at 1:12 PM