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SmokeLong Staff Reads: March 23rd – April 5th
Dear Submitters, Readers, and Friends, For the next two weeks, all submissions are being considered for SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 48. SmokeLong Weekly and its awesome revolving door of Guest Editors is taking a two week hiatus. If you’re wondering what … Continue reading
Staff Reading Weeks
For the next three weeks, all SmokeLong submissions will be read by permanent staff editors and readers. Stories accepted will appear in SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 47 slated to come out in March 2015. Stories that have recently been selected from all staff … Continue reading
SmokeLong Toasts: Avital Gad-Cykman’s Flash Collection
Congratulations to former SLQ contributor Avital Gad-Cykman, whose collection Life In, Life Out, featuring the story “Fire. Water.” from SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 6, has been published by Matter Press for Compressed Creative Arts. From the publisher: “This spirited collection of … Continue reading
Rebecca King: Guest Editor for November 10th – November 16th
Rebecca King is a writer, editor, and podcast producer living in the Midwest. She is the founding editor of Origami Zoo Press and received her MFA from Chatham University. Her stories have appeared in many journals including Necessary Fiction, Smokelong … Continue reading
Moments of Grace ~ from Dani Shapiro
by Kathy Fish, reprinted with permission from her blog. Here, in Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, Dani Shapiro speaks of flawed, unpredictable, risk-taking, rule-breaking prose (my favorite kind): “These instances of creative daring are moments … Continue reading
Kickstarter Campaign for a New Web Design for Smokelong Quarterly
DIRECT LINK TO SMOKELONG AT KICKSTARTER to find out the prizes at each level! We publish cutting-edge flash fiction, and we need a web site that shows it off. Help bring our online presence into the next decade! Hey, did you … Continue reading
New England Flash Contest–Brattleboro Literary Festival
Is there any better place to be than New England in early Fall? SmokeLong Quarterly is teaming up with the Brattleboro Literary Festival to host a flash fiction contest and reading at the festival, held in early October in Brattleboro, … Continue reading
This Week’s Reader–Paula Benson
About: A legislative attorney and former law librarian, Paula Gail Benson’s short stories have been published in the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, Kings River Life, Mystery Times Ten 2013 (Buddhapuss Ink), and A Tall Ship, a Star, and Plunder (Dark Oak … Continue reading
This Week’s Reader: Megan Giddings
About: Megan Giddings is an MFA candidate at Indiana University. She received a 2013 Kathy Fish Fellowship and Writer’s Residency from SmokeLong Quarterly. Her work has been recently published or is forthcoming from NANO Fiction, The Masters Review: New Voices, Moon City Review, … Continue reading
This Week’s Guest Reader: Letitia Trent
About: Letitia Trent’s first novel, Echo Lake, will be published by Dark House Press/Curbside Splendor in 2014. Trent’s work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, The Black Warrior Review, Fence, Folio, The Journal, Mipoesias, Ootoliths, Blazevox, and many others. Her … Continue reading
