News: Interviews

An Interview with Tony Huang, Guest Editor and Translator for Chinese

Tony, thank you so much for choosing a story in Chinese for SmokeLong Quarterly‘s Global Flash Series. What kind of story will you be looking for? I’m honored to...

June 3, 2019 Continue reading…

Wild Life: An Interview with Kathy Fish

by Josh Denslow Over the last 10 years Kathy Fish has done more than probably anyone to influence the direction of flash fiction. She’s a popular and sought-after workshop...

February 18, 2019 Continue reading…

Flashgiving Winner: Ellipsis Zine

For the month of November, we asked our readers to nominate other flash-focused journals that they thought were doing great work. In exchange, we would pick one to award...

December 19, 2018 Continue reading…

Social Media and Politics in Kenya: An Interview with John O. Ndavula

For the last few months, the SmokeLong team have had the pleasure of having John O. Ndavula on staff as our Kiswahili editor and translator. The story he chose...

October 22, 2018 Continue reading…

Cool Stuff Writers Do: An Interview with Container

Doug Luman and Jenni B. Baker’s Container is a literary project for artists interested in nontraditional storytelling.  Container tells stories on lunchboxes and Rolodexes, on View Masters and with...

May 18, 2018 Continue reading…

Cool Stuff Writers Do: Our Associate Editor Is Going to Be on Jeopardy!

SmokeLong Associate Editor and resident trivia buff Meghan Carlton Phillips will be appearing as a contestant on the beloved game show Jeopardy! this Friday, April 21, 2017. Will she...

April 19, 2017 Continue reading…

Review and Q&A: ‘Exposure’ Reveals All

According to Webster’s Dictionary, there are generally three commonly used meanings for the word “Exposure:” “the fact or condition of being affected by something or experiencing something: the condition...

November 2, 2016 Continue reading…

Interview with Rose Metal Press: Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest

Rose Metal Press is an independent publisher of hybrid genres, including flash fiction collections and novellas-in-flash. For the past 11 years, Rose Metal Press (RMP) has held their annual...

October 19, 2016 Continue reading…

Cool Stuff Writers Do: Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series

Most are familiar with the typical poetry reading scene: a dark bar, an uplit stage, maybe some jazz and finger snaps at the end of some emotionally wrought yet...

October 12, 2016 Continue reading…

Cool Stuff Writers Do: Aymar and Alkimist

What’s cooler than flash fiction? Reading it out loud and pairing it with music. Writer E.A. Aymar, a past guest editor here at SmokeLong, and Kimberly Venetz (DJ Alkimist)...

October 5, 2016 Continue reading…

Cool Stuff Writers Do: The Tool Project

Writing prompts are nothing new, but they can always be helpful in sparking the imagination and generating new content. SmokeLong editor Tara Laskowski recently stumbled across a casual Facebook...

June 21, 2016 Continue reading…

“Catch These Little Gifts”: Flash Interviews with Dan Nielsen, Robert Scotellaro, and Nancy Stohlman

  by Jonathan Cardew Like a shot of whiskey, or a plunge into cold water, or a breeze on a hot summer’s day, good flash recalibrates the senses. It...

May 6, 2016 Continue reading…

On the Continuum of Art and Science: An Interview with the Winner of Africa’s Etisalat Prize for Flash Fiction

The Etisalat Prize for Literature is a pan-African award that strives to nurture emerging writers on the continent and support the African publishing industry. Although the prize began with...

April 15, 2016 Continue reading…

Kathy Fish Fellowship 2016: An Interview with Shasta Grant

We’re so excited for you to get to know our 2016 Kathy Fish Fellow, Shasta Grant. Recently, we took a little time to ask her about her writing habits,...

January 28, 2016 Continue reading…

“Process as Photosynthesis”: An Interview with Mary Rickert

This past month, SmokeLong‘s associate content editor, Annie Bilancini, had the pleasure of talking form and inspiration with Mary Rickert, whose newest short story collection You Have Never Been...

November 19, 2015 Continue reading…

Review and Q&A: ‘The Family Arcana’ Deals Out a Full House

by Tara Laskowski Here’s a genius idea: take a creepy gothic story about a family living in a possibly haunted house and break it up and put the pieces...

October 15, 2015 Continue reading…

“You can just read it. You should just read it.” An Interview with SLQ’s Former Fish Fellows

This week on the SmokeLong Blog, in honor of the 2016 Kathy Fish Fellowship, we’re catching up with former SLQ Fish Fellows Tara Laskowski, Adam Peterson, Megan Giddings, Beth...

August 28, 2015 Continue reading…

SLQ interviews editor Robert Shapard about international flash fiction

What was the goal behind Flash Fiction International? Did you have any expectations starting out? Our publisher wanted us to do a new international book, based on a successful...

April 20, 2015 Continue reading…

Interview with Rose Metal Press—Novellas-in-Flash

SmokeLong Quarterly loves short-form work, and when a new anthology that features innovative shorter work is published, talking to its editors is a priority. SLQ’s interviews editor Karen Craigo...

March 31, 2015 Continue reading…