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Love this piece from @ironbrewer.bsky.social

We are excited to announce our new author, Ani King! Ani's debut book, FAMILY NIGHT, a collection of flash fiction filled with magical realism, will be released in Fall 2026. Join us in welcoming Ani to MJP! @aniking.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social #flashfiction #debutauthor #magicalrealism

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Promote Your Uniqueness

One of the greatest things about you, author, is that you are one-of-a-kind. There is no one else like you on this planet, and there is no one who does things quite like you do.

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Had a look at some illustrations for an as-yet-unannounced 2027 title. Will be worth the added cost as well as the extra layout work. IMO you should just sign up for the book club so you get all the books.

Our very own @ironbrewer.bsky.social will be reading next week at the Valley Art Center for Ekphrastacy ‘25 🎨✍️🎙️

See you there?

gas guzzler ghazal corey miller issue 4 // poetry Gas Guzzler Ghazalby Corey Miller Get in the truck, let’s pick up some faithfully lost hitchhikers & guzzle gasoline.Every god consumes ethanol alcohol. Weedwhackers/humans ru…

Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️🪾☠️

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I have a new poem out if you have a minute to spare 💚

I have a new poem coming soon!

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

If the bill passes this week, it will give ICE enough money to become, by 2029, the nation's largest federal interior law enforcement agency with enough funding to become the nation's largest jailer.

Take note.

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

"She could answer by telling the truth: “My body wants to be a mother, to feed everyone and be depended upon. To not be like my sister, who sits and waits for results.” She would say it in that I’ve-unfucked-God-for-smiting-my-womb sort of way."

Excellent unnerving piece by @ironbrewer.bsky.social

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, David!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Thank you, Bill!!

Thanks, Max!!

Huge honor to be in Smokelong! 💚

Stanchion Magazine Issue 18 | Stanchion This is a pre-order for Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine. Expected to be published and shipped directly to you in April 2025.The issue will be approximately 90 elegantly uncoated pages full of short sto...

Completely knocked out that one of my longer short stories, "All the Small Things," will be included in Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine (@stanchion.bsky.social) next month. They're taking discounted pre-orders if you're so inclined: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Congrats to all the other writers in this issue as well. I’m making my way through the stories now!

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

Absolutely thrilled to have a story published with Smokelong Quarterly! Thank you so much to all of the editors!

You can read or listen to it here: www.smokelong.com/stories/miss-texas-consi...

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

"She looks for me amidst the audience; I’m her dam, her full-length mirror, her coach to keep her in check."

This extraordinary piece of writing by @ironbrewer.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.smokelong.com/stories/miss...

Thank you so much for sharing, Dan!!

Black background with rainbow-like rays of light type graphic expanding from top to bottom of page, in pale blue, pale pink, and white stripes, overlaid with three big pop-art lightning flash bolts in the same colours. Centre of the page is a pop-art style text graphic saying Art Is Political. Text overlay: SmokeLong Issue 87, March 2025. SLQ Logo. Cover art: SmokeLong. There are pop-art speech bubbles and pull-outs which say: Featuring the winners of the SmokeLong Workhop Prize and Stories by C Ray Borck, Rebecca Fishow, Gill O'Halloran, Wafa-e-fatima, Corey Miller, Shira Musicant, Beth Sherman, and Haley Sim.

⚡📢❗BIG NEWS KLAXON❗🔊⚡ Issue 87, which includes the winners of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize, goes live on Monday. ⭐⚡⭐

Creative Practice with Beth Gilstrap How to Keep Making Art When All You Want to Do is Cry on the Shower Floor

I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

This is still the greatest email ever.

Congrats, Dan!!

In addition to helping vulnerable people and orgs, something else you can instead of screaming is to put a wrench in this administration’s plans every chance you get. A few ideas: