Yay!!! What an exceptional collection!

I'm thrilled! I love Madrid, and I can't wait to reconsider how we write about time. And of course lots of rioja.

PSA! A SmokeLong Summer 26 dates!! May 28th-Sep 1st! Onboarding May 28th-June 2nd, Three-task-a-week peer-review workshop June 3rd-Aug 4th, then cool down with one task a week until Sep 1st. More live events than ever this year! Mark your calendars! More info soon! Summer just got longer.

Smoke Signals with Holly Mitchell - SmokeLong Quarterly This story is such a perfect image of gay panic, and it encapsulates the insecurity of youth and self-discovery. Was there a particular moment or image that inspired this story? It started with the ph...

Holly Mitchell is our featured author this week. Read America Marvel's interview with the author, in which Mitchell talks about narrative structure, in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Hey, flash writers. We've started a FREE space for the flash community. We're SmokeLong, but we're also all of us. The Village will be a space for exchange, for info, for celebration beyond the noise of social media. Head over to @heyflashvillage.bsky.social for an invitation.

Issue Ninety-One - SmokeLong Quarterly

New @smokelong.bsky.social! So many fantastic flashes—and interviews, too!

Blue sky background with origami birds flying in formation. text in the old twitter logo font: "flash in the feed". SLQ logo.

It's time for another #FlashInTheFeed. Let's fill our dumpster-fire social media feeds with art for the next three days. Share a great flash narrative by a writer you don't know with this hashtag and we'll give away a copy of Shasta Grant's debut novel, When We Were Feral, to seven people at random.

It's here! So long in the works. We can't wait to share this issue with you. It's grand.

Background graphic in shades of green with circles and stars. Text overlay: The SmokeLong Quarterly Pushcart Prize nominations:“Good” by Audrey Obuobisa-Darko; “Savior” by Seth Gleckman; “Organs” by Aimee Bender; “Pigeon-Toed” by Claire Guo; “Grave” by CJ Scruton; “Between Chamisa and Rengyō” by Mizuki Yamamoto.

ICYMI (because we can't find it), our Pushcart nominations for December were: “Good” by Audrey Obuobisa-Darko; “Savior” by Seth Gleckman; “Organs” by Aimee Bender; “Pigeon-Toed” by Claire Guo; “Grave” by CJ Scruton; “Between Chamisa and Rengyō” by Mizuki Yamamoto.

Hey, everyone! Please do try to get there as early as possible!

We'd love to see you! We're getting there at around 4:30 to hang out, eat and drink before the reading, so even if you have obligations later, please stop by and say hello!

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026

Preorder alert! Snag your copy of @joelhans.com's The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of @mooncitypress.bsky.social's 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award!

www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

Always love karaoke with you!

The image shows an otter with a unicorn horn and Christopher Allen's "where to find me" info for AWP: the panel "Lightning Strikes Twice" on Saturday at 1:45pm and the SmokeLong reading on Thursday evening at Old Major.

Thank you, Helen Rye, for making a graphic for me. She'll also be leading me around at AWP! Watch for us. If you see us wandering aimlessly around the bookfair, stop us and say hi!

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026! - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is now an annual competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by ...

We're reading for the 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Prize pot: $4700. Be sure to read the previous years' issues before you enter. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I need someone to plan AWP for me. Just tell me where to go. Shove me in to one Uber after another. I'll be uploading my Find Me at AWP post soon, as soon as someone tells me.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

Thank you so much, Matt!

3 Doors Down - Here Without You (Official Music Video) YouTube video by 3DoorsDownVEVO

Oh no. We never know how long we have. youtu.be/kPBzTxZQG5Q?...

Thank you so much, Claudia!

Thank you, Patricia!

Thank you, Timothy!

Yay!!!!

Breaking News — Ghost Parachute Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news. A child turned memory turned muted turned into a body, f...

Sadly, this is timeless. New work by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

Thank you, Cole! And the art by Kaylan Stedman Friedman is wow.