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Sherrie Flick

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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 · May 12

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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The image is the newspaper spread including the text of the review in the link plus a photo of Sherrie Flick and cover of I Have Not Considered Consequences. The book cover is pink and purple and has a woman and bear dancing together and Sherrie is wearing a yellow sweater and gray and black tee, leaning against a stone wall.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

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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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 4d

I have a new micro up at Ghost Parachute for their 9th anniversary! Amazing lineup in the full issue. 🪂

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 7d

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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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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 9d

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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 14d

"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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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 13d

Noodle moon

Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 14d

👉🏻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

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 18d

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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 21d

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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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 23d

✨ New SmokeLong issue! We've got CNF by AIMEE BENDER and an incredible assortment of flash writers!! ✨

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 25d

PSA! We're reading for the March issue now. Our September issue goes live on Monday.

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · 26d

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 28d

Cover Reveal! September 15th! Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! Ten killer flash by ten amazing writers. And we're thrilled to feature new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in the SmokeLong Master Series. Cover art by Mario Loprete.

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you for posting about Homing! 🩷

Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s Homing’s one-year birthday! 🎂 Thanks to everyone who has supported this collection, especially @univnebpress.bsky.social 🎉 #essays #cnf #memoir #rustbelt #booksky #americanlivesseries #bookbirthday

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thursday! (Tomorrow!) 8pm

Autumn House Press @autumnhousepress.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out @sherrieflick.bsky.social tomorrow, August 28th, in discussion with Christina Fisanick and Damian Dressick for the WANA LIVE! podcast. Sherrie will be reading from her newest short story collection I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES! 🐻🎙️

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WANA LIVE! Reading Series featuring Sherrie Flick

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 15

PSA! Our Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller call ends at midnight ET tonight (still looking for that creepy story that's amazing at the line level), our free-submissions window opens tomorrow, we'll be announcing the winners of our summer workshop competitions soon, and we think you're pretty.

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 12

Tonight! Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel. Free but registration is required. Reading from the essay collection and the new story collection. Fun! #booksky #essays #flashfiction 🐻🩷 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today! There's still time to request the Zoom link. www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me too!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations and much success to our Best of the Net Nominees!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 3

It was so tasty 🩷

Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 3

This biscuit sandwich (is mine)

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · Aug 2

Today's listing of the day is: The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

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Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Columbus, Ohians!—I’ll be reading from I Have Not Considered Consequences at Gramercy Books on August 7, in discussion with OSU’s Jim Phelan - 7pm - Free but registration is required, link below 🐻🩷 - Hope to see you there! #booksky @autumnhousepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/authoredit...

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