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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

"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...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

Yay!

LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 15h

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…

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 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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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1d

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:

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#Writing #WritingCommunity

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Yay!!!!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Yay!!!!

Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 3d

PSA. We've just discovered that the art we used for issue 89 was used by another journal a couple of months before our issue came out. Out of respect for this journal, we are replacing the cover art on issue 89. Please stand by.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 5d

Have you responded to our questionnaire? We're considering what we can do to serve our community better, so please help us with your comments--especially if you are a flash writer. fx4n25ehm8e.typeform.com/to/A78qM4SM

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

Yay!!!!

Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social · 7d

Check out the gorgeousness in Unbroken Journal
@ambidextrouslit.bsky.social. 'The River Burst its Banks' was born in @sagetyrtle.bsky.social 's amazing Loop and Spiral Workshop as a part of @smokelong.bsky.social A SmokeLong Summer. Thanks to Sage and everyone!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 7d

In October we're going to explore the collision of the odd and the ordinary, and on October 25th, you can join us and Sage Tyrtle for the 2-hour webinar "Speculative Fiction as Metaphor"! Or book SmokeLong Fitness today and get this webinar at no extra charge! www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 8d

Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 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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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 9d

This @jjlofflin.bsky.social story from @smokelong.bsky.social is a wild ride. “the way he wrestled with the tiger, how he thrashed first one arm and then the other, made his disguise fall away. It wasn’t much of a disguise if I’m honest.” www.smokelong.com/stories/on-o...

On Our Way to the Circus - SmokeLong Quarterly

We saw a man getting mauled by a tiger. The man was our father. My brother Johnny and I didn’t recognize him at first, not because of the profusion of blood, but because the man, our father, had grown...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 11d

Need more community? Writing in isolation? Our first October writing task goes live on October 6th, so you have a few days to think. We'd love to get all the new members in by Oct 1st so that we can do some onboarding before Oct 6th. Come write with us. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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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 · 9d

Good to know! Hahahahah.

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