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Thank you to our 2025 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows!

Posted on July 1, 2025

More than 15 years ago, SmokeLong began supporting emerging writers. Then, The Kathy Fish Fellowship awarded one writer each year guaranteed publication of four stories. This worked well only on occasion. While we have continuously offered a fellowship for emerging writers since then, we’ve made changes. Around 10 years ago we changed the name to… Continue reading Thank you to our 2025 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows!

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — June 2025

Posted on June 30, 2025

An Interview with Kristi Ferguson

Posted on June 26, 2025

The Archive Challenge — Win $400!

Posted on June 23, 2025

An Interview with Pegah Ouji

Posted on June 19, 2025

An Interview with Frances Gapper

Posted on June 12, 2025

Dear Sarah Fawn: A Review of Abbreviate, a Collection to be Read with the Smallest Versions of Ourselves

Posted on June 10, 2025

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Winners

Posted on June 8, 2025

An Interview with Nora Nadjarian

Posted on June 5, 2025

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – May 2025

Posted on May 31, 2025

An Interview with
Dawn Tasaka Steffler

Posted on May 29, 2025

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Shortlist

Posted on May 25, 2025

An Interview with
Sandra Carlson Khalil

Posted on May 22, 2025

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction – The Long List

Posted on May 19, 2025

An Interview with Sara Hills

Posted on May 15, 2025

Reopening General Submissions

Posted on May 11, 2025

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025

Posted on May 9, 2025

An Interview with Savera Zachariah

Posted on May 8, 2025

A SmokeLong Summer 25 – FAQ

Posted on May 5, 2025

An Interview with Barbara Diggs

Posted on May 1, 2025

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – April 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) — FAQ

Posted on April 30, 2025

Review: Gloria Frym’s
Lies & More Lies

Posted on April 29, 2025

Atoms and Embryos:
On Susan Holcomb’s Wolfbaby

Posted on April 26, 2025

An Interview with Marijean Oldham

Posted on April 24, 2025

An Interview with Shira Musicant

Posted on April 20, 2025

An Interview with Sudha Balagopal

Posted on April 10, 2025

An Interview with Dawn Miller

Posted on April 3, 2025

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – March 2025

Posted on March 29, 2025

An Interview with
Nora Esme Wagner

Posted on March 27, 2025

An Interview with Allison Field Bell

Posted on March 20, 2025

Review: Inside the House Inside by Rosalind Goldsmith

Posted on March 18, 2025

An Interview with Linda M. Bayley

Posted on March 13, 2025

Review: It All Felt Impossible by Tom McAllister

Posted on March 11, 2025

An Interview with Glenn Orgias

Posted on March 6, 2025

SmokeLong Workshop Celebration—February 2025

Posted on March 1, 2025

An Interview with Ann Yuan

Posted on February 27, 2025

An Interview with Travis Flatt

Posted on February 20, 2025

The March Micro Marathon 25 — Deadline to Book Feb 28!

Posted on February 16, 2025

An Interview with Jessica Klimesh

Posted on February 13, 2025

An Interview with Farriz Mashudi

Posted on February 6, 2025

An Interview with
Kathryn Silver-Hajo

Posted on January 30, 2025

SmokeLong Celebration — January 2025

Posted on January 29, 2025

An Interview with Emily Rinkema

Posted on January 23, 2025

Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller — A SmokeLong Themed Call for Submissions

Posted on January 17, 2025

An Interview with Fiona McKay

Posted on January 16, 2025

An Interview with Ani King

Posted on January 9, 2025

URGENT – This Review Will Disappear: Thoughts on Diana Oropeza’s An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance

Posted on January 8, 2025

An Interview with Kim Magowan

Posted on January 2, 2025

“You Keep Rick-rolling Me”: On Avitus B. Carle’s These Worn Bodies and the End of the World

Posted on December 28, 2024

The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows 2025

Posted on December 27, 2024

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize – Long List

Posted on December 10, 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Finalists

Posted on December 5, 2024

SmokeLong Celebration — November 2024

Posted on December 1, 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Shortlist

Posted on November 29, 2024

On Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight

Posted on November 25, 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Long List

Posted on November 20, 2024

SmokeLong Celebration
— October 2024

Posted on November 4, 2024

FlashGiving 2024

Posted on November 2, 2024

“This is the Meaning of my Life”: On Bare Ana and Other Stories by Robert Shapard

Posted on October 15, 2024

SmokeLong Celebration — September 2024

Posted on October 5, 2024

The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship 2025

Posted on September 29, 2024

Truman State University Students Read the Queue!

Posted on September 16, 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest Open for Entries!

Posted on September 16, 2024

SmokeLong on the Road —
Fall 2024

Posted on September 11, 2024

Celebration — August!

Posted on September 5, 2024

Five from the Archive –
Dreams in Flash

Posted on August 24, 2024

A Review of Paul Rousseau’s Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir

Posted on August 7, 2024

Celebration May – July!

Posted on July 30, 2024

Thank You to SmokeLong Fellow Pegah Ouji

Posted on July 7, 2024

Thank you to SmokeLong Fellow Chey Dugan

Posted on July 2, 2024

Review: Joseph Young’s The Thing I Was Trying to Tell You

Posted on June 29, 2024

Thank You to SmokeLong Fellow Kelly Pedro

Posted on June 25, 2024

Thank you to SmokeLong Fellow Dawn Miller

Posted on June 16, 2024

Review: Pineville Trace
by Wes Blake

Posted on June 12, 2024

Issue 84 Launch Party!

Posted on June 9, 2024

The Winners and Finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2024

Posted on June 1, 2024

Celebrating Small Presses — The Virtual Bookfair of A SmokeLong Summer 24

Posted on May 17, 2024

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Shortlist

Posted on May 10, 2024

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Long List

Posted on May 6, 2024

A SmokeLong Summer — 2024

Posted on April 9, 2024

Book Review: Ruined a Little When We Are Born by Tara Isabel Zambrano

Posted on April 2, 2024

Introducing SmokeLong In-N-Out

Posted on April 1, 2024

Interview with Jude Higgins, Cofounder of The UK Flash Fiction Festival

Posted on February 10, 2024

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2024 — Q&A

Posted on January 31, 2024

Five from the Archive:
Endings in Flash

Posted on January 21, 2024

Interview with The SmokeLong Workshop Prize Winner,
Claudia Monpere

Posted on January 18, 2024

Feedback from SmokeLong Editors

Posted on January 2, 2024

A Visceral Scroll through the SmokeLong Quarterly Barbie Catalog

Posted on December 27, 2023

Introducing The SmokeLong Fellows Jan-June 2024!

Posted on December 22, 2023

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize — The Finalists

Posted on December 18, 2023

The Smokey Winter Fête

Posted on December 6, 2023

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition — The Finalists

Posted on December 2, 2023

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition — The Shortlist

Posted on November 21, 2023

The Music of Flash —
December Webinar

Posted on November 20, 2023

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition — Long List

Posted on November 17, 2023

Interview: Amy Cipolla Barnes, Author of Child Craft

Posted on October 31, 2023

Interview: Diane Gottlieb, Curator of the Anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness

Posted on October 24, 2023

American University Students
Read the Queue!

Posted on October 16, 2023

FlashGiving 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023

More Today than Yesterday: A Review of Joseph Lucido’s “The Horrors”

Posted on September 26, 2023

Best of the Net 2024 —
SmokeLong’s Nominations

Posted on September 18, 2023

Time as a snowstorm: An exploration of time in ‘Wolf Cry’ by Sara Lippmann

Posted on September 12, 2023

Five from the Archive –
Using Songs in Flash

Posted on September 4, 2023

Flash from the Past: “One Degree of Safety” by Andrew Gretes

Posted on August 29, 2023

New Journal Series:
The Dawn Review

Posted on August 22, 2023

Flash Fiction America Reading — The SmokeLong Authors

Posted on August 20, 2023

Review: Jennifer Fliss’s
As If She Had a Say

Posted on August 15, 2023

Tara Campbell’s “Where the Words Go”: Progressive Images of a Progressive Disease

Posted on August 9, 2023

Interview: Luke Rolfes’ Impossible Naked Life

Posted on August 5, 2023

New Journal Series: Hotazel Review, an African Journal

Posted on August 1, 2023

Book Review: Attention Seekers: Short Stories by Emma Brankin

Posted on July 25, 2023

Flash in the Classroom–
Where’s the Heat?

Posted on July 17, 2023

Review: Small, Burning Things
by Cathy Ulrich

Posted on July 9, 2023

New Journal Series: Laconic, the Romanian Flash Fiction Journal

Posted on July 4, 2023

On the Imaginative Possibilities of Flash Fiction

Posted on June 25, 2023

Announcing the SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellows July-December 2023!

Posted on June 19, 2023

Book Review: Three Can Keep a Secret — Flash Fiction by Western Australian Writers

Posted on June 7, 2023

The SmokeLong Workshop Prize

Posted on May 8, 2023

Countdown to A SmokeLong Summer 2023!

Posted on May 4, 2023

Elements of Flash — For the Flash Curious — May 13!

Posted on April 17, 2023

Madison College Students Read the Queue!

Posted on April 10, 2023

Plotting in Miniature – An Excerpt from Grant Faulkner’s The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story

Posted on April 7, 2023

Review: Ben Berman’s
Writing While Parenting

Posted on March 25, 2023

Review: Maybe This is What I Deserve by Tucker Leighty-Phillips

Posted on February 25, 2023

“She Kept Coming Back”: An Interview with Megan Pillow, our Issue 80 guest editor

Posted on February 15, 2023

The SmokeLong April Intensive — Going There: Sex and Intimacy in Flash

Posted on February 13, 2023

Review: Everything’s Changing by Chelsea Stickle

Posted on February 5, 2023

The SmokeLong / Loose Cannons Reading and Improv Off-Site Event at AWP

Posted on January 30, 2023

The End is Near
The Beginning is too

Posted on December 29, 2022

The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writer — The January-June 2023 Fellows!

Posted on December 22, 2022

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Shortlist!

Posted on December 7, 2022

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Long List

Posted on December 1, 2022

“The Pursuit”: An Interview with Denne Michele Norris, our Issue 78 Guest Editor!

Posted on November 16, 2022

Review: Because We Were Christian Girls by Virgie Townsend

Posted on November 4, 2022

The January Intensive 2023

Posted on November 3, 2022

FAQs about the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Posted on October 25, 2022

Review: Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore

Posted on October 6, 2022

Book Review: Aaron Angello’s The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications

Posted on August 3, 2022

Because I Wanted to Engage and Challenge my Students

Posted on June 27, 2022

Readers in Residence — Issue 77

Posted on May 20, 2022

“Baby Shoes”: Anatomy of A Six-Word Story

Posted on May 2, 2022

Amsterdam University College Reads the Queue Again!

Posted on April 27, 2022

Book Review: One Person Away from You: Stories by Andrew Bertaina

Posted on April 5, 2022

Last Day to Enter The Springy!

Posted on April 1, 2022

Review: Michelle Ross’s They Kept Running

Posted on March 21, 2022

“How to catch interest with just a title” — An Interview with Students from Young Harris College

Posted on March 14, 2022

Readers in Residence — Issue 76

Posted on February 15, 2022

Review: How Far I’ve Come by Kim Magowan

Posted on February 13, 2022

Readers in Residence Wrap Up — Issue 75

Posted on February 11, 2022

Review: Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

Posted on January 30, 2022

The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting: An Interview with Veronica Montes

Posted on January 23, 2022

SmokeLong April Intensive

Posted on January 16, 2022

Meg Pokrass and Grant Faulkner Talk About Sex and Death in Flash Fiction

Posted on January 16, 2022

Morsels of Purple: An Interview with Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

Posted on January 9, 2022

Review: The Predatory Animal Ball by Jennifer Fliss

Posted on December 31, 2021

Other Sub-Categories of Novella-in-Flash/Novel-in-Flash (contd.)

Posted on December 26, 2021

Other Sub-Categories of Novella-in-Flash/Novel-in-Flash

Posted on December 19, 2021

How to Spot a Novella-in-Flash at 100 Yards

Posted on December 12, 2021

The SmokeLong Quarterly Comedy Prize 2021– The Shortlist!

Posted on December 5, 2021

Readers in Residence — Issue 75

Posted on December 2, 2021

The SmokeLong Quarterly Comedy Prize — The Long List

Posted on December 1, 2021

Thank you to our Issue 74 Readers in Residence!

Posted on November 30, 2021

The SmokeLong Winter Workshop

Posted on November 15, 2021

Creative Writing Students Reading the Queue!

Posted on November 1, 2021

Five from the Archive — Writing from a Child’s Point of View

Posted on October 31, 2021

Freedom, hope, fly, happiness. by Nazia Baqizada

Posted on October 30, 2021

Two Micros by Arzu Naqizada

Posted on October 29, 2021

Eritrea by the Window by Nura Ahmed Faloul

Posted on October 28, 2021

You Are Remembered by Dareen Yousef

Posted on October 27, 2021

Freedom Is Having Wings To Fly by Wahida Amiri

Posted on October 12, 2021

Adventurous Journey by Sadia Ramazani

Posted on October 5, 2021

The Other Dark Face of Life by Kinaz Mohammed Abdo

Posted on October 3, 2021

Rosary With White Pearl Beads by Maryam M.

Posted on October 1, 2021

Waiting for the Spring by Arozo Wakili

Posted on September 29, 2021

The Struggle No-one Should Go Through by Marofa Sharifi

Posted on September 27, 2021

The SmokeLong Fall Intensive!

Posted on September 15, 2021

Readers in Residence — Issue 74

Posted on September 11, 2021

Reader-in-Residence Wrap-Up — Issue 73

Posted on September 7, 2021

The SmokeLong Fall Workshop!

Posted on July 28, 2021

“Not Alone”: An Interview with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Posted on July 27, 2021

Five from the Archive: Repetition in Flash

Posted on July 20, 2021

Success by Shukriya Alizada

Posted on July 6, 2021

The SmokeLong Quarterly Comedy Prize 2021

Posted on July 4, 2021

Review: Fables of the Deconstruction by Damian Dressick

Posted on July 3, 2021

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — Results

Posted on June 21, 2021

Five From the Archive: Sex in Flash

Posted on June 20, 2021

Readers in Residence — Issue 73

Posted on June 15, 2021

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — The Finalists!

Posted on June 13, 2021

A Review of handwringers by Sarah Mintz

Posted on June 8, 2021

Thank you to our Issue 72 Readers in Residence

Posted on June 7, 2021

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — Shortlist

Posted on May 31, 2021

Summer with SmokeLong: A Flash Workshop to Build Worlds

Posted on May 25, 2021

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest — Long List

Posted on May 24, 2021

Reader-in-Residence Wrap Up — Alice Franklin

Posted on May 12, 2021

Review: Tomorrow Music by Pete Stevens

Posted on May 10, 2021

Snow Warming by Bita Mohammaddoust

Posted on April 26, 2021

The Grand Micro Contest–Not long left to enter!

Posted on April 20, 2021

My Pen and I Talked about You by Farzana Alizada

Posted on April 18, 2021

SmokeLong Flash Intensive Workshop — May 31-June 20!

Posted on April 15, 2021

SmokeLong en Español: Una Entrevista con María Alejandra Barrios

Posted on April 12, 2021

‘Action over Despair’: The Roshan Learning Center

Posted on April 5, 2021

Some Very Important News

Posted on April 1, 2021

The Springy!

Posted on April 1, 2021

Five from the Archive – Food in Flash

Posted on March 29, 2021

Amsterdam University College Takes Over The Queue!

Posted on March 21, 2021

Readers in Residence — Issue 72

Posted on March 13, 2021

Reader-in-Residence Wrap Up — Nod Ghosh

Posted on March 10, 2021

Reader-in-Residence Wrap Up — Clementine E. Burnley

Posted on March 9, 2021

Reader-in-Residence Wrap Up — Jiksun Cheung

Posted on March 8, 2021

“Desire and disconnect”: An Interview with Sara Lippmann

Posted on March 1, 2021

Taller de Cuentos Breves: Lo Elemental

Posted on February 25, 2021

Five from the Archive — Naturalism

Posted on February 22, 2021

Elements of Flash: A SmokeLong Intro to the Flash Narrative

Posted on February 20, 2021

The SmokeLong Online Flash Workshop – April 5-May 23!

Posted on February 8, 2021

Book Review: Fabrications by Pamela Painter

Posted on February 1, 2021

B.A.S.S. 1998 by Karen Marron: On Textual Continuum and Palimpsest

Posted on January 25, 2021

Going Short: An Interview with Nancy Stohlman

Posted on January 18, 2021

Five From The Archive — Long Periods of Time in Flash

Posted on January 11, 2021

Review: Darien Hsu Gee’s Allegiance

Posted on December 28, 2020

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition

Posted on December 22, 2020

Readers in Residence — Issue Seventy-One

Posted on December 15, 2020

Review of Robert Scotellaro’s What Are the Chances?

Posted on December 14, 2020

Thank you to Alicia Bakewell, one of our Issue 70 Readers in Residence

Posted on December 10, 2020

Thank you to Zainab A. Omaki, one of our Issue 70 Readers in Residence

Posted on December 9, 2020

Thank you to Tim Craig, one of our Issue 70 Readers in Residence

Posted on December 8, 2020

Thank you to Jemimah Wei, one of our Issue 70 Readers in Residence

Posted on December 7, 2020

Santa SmokeLong

Posted on November 25, 2020

Congratulations to our Pushcart Nominees!

Posted on November 24, 2020

Going Full Deer: An Interview with Lara Ehrlich

Posted on November 23, 2020

Review: Brett Biebel’s 48 Blitz

Posted on November 16, 2020

The SmokeLong Flash Nonfiction Workshop Online Jan 4 – Feb 21

Posted on November 12, 2020

Fridge Flash: Peace by Maya Bolden

Posted on November 9, 2020

Five from the Archive:
Magical Realism

Posted on November 4, 2020

“A source of community and affirmation”: An Interview With Fall Quarterly Guest Editor Venita Blackburn

Posted on November 2, 2020

More Students Read the Queue!

Posted on October 26, 2020

Creative Writing Students Read the Queue!

Posted on October 19, 2020

SmokeLong Workshop Opportunities

Posted on October 14, 2020

Review: And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks

Posted on October 12, 2020

Five from the Archive: The Micro

Posted on October 10, 2020

Book Review: The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting by Veronica Montes

Posted on October 5, 2020

Review: Christopher Linforth’s Directory 

Posted on September 28, 2020

Readers in Residence — Issue 70

Posted on September 16, 2020

A Wrap-up from our Issue 69 Readers in Residence

Posted on September 15, 2020

Fridge Flash — Jolie’s Adventure in Mathematics Land

Posted on September 14, 2020

Review: The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

Posted on September 7, 2020

Five from the Archive — The Moment of Being

Posted on August 31, 2020

Elements of Flash: A SmokeLong Introduction to Flash

Posted on August 26, 2020

Fridge Flash — Milky by B. Bowers

Posted on August 24, 2020

Best of the Net Nominations!

Posted on August 17, 2020

Five From the Archive —
First-Person Plural POV

Posted on August 10, 2020

Review: Alice In Wonderland Syndrome by Meg Pokrass

Posted on August 3, 2020

A Moment of Truth

Posted on July 27, 2020

“Elements of Flash” — A SmokeLong Introduction for the Flash-Curious

Posted on July 24, 2020

Fridge Flash — Who Will Win the Race?

Posted on July 20, 2020

The SmokeLong Flash Fiction Workshop Online — September 7 – October 25

Posted on July 20, 2020

Review: Death, Desire, and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano

Posted on July 13, 2020

Fridge Flash — The Safety Boxes

Posted on July 6, 2020

Review: The Bitter Kind by Tara Lynn Masih and James Claffey

Posted on June 29, 2020

The SmokeLong Award for Flash Fiction — The Results

Posted on June 22, 2020

The SmokeLong Award for Flash Fiction — The Finalists

Posted on June 15, 2020

Readers in Residence — Issue 69

Posted on June 10, 2020

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction Shortlist

Posted on June 8, 2020

Elements of Flash — A SmokeLong Intro to Flash Fiction

Posted on June 6, 2020

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction Longlist

Posted on June 1, 2020

Why Flash Fiction?

Posted on May 25, 2020

The SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Workshops Online — July 6-Aug 23!

Posted on May 18, 2020

Artist Spotlight: Christina McPhee

Posted on May 11, 2020

Review: The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love by Chuck Augello

Posted on May 5, 2020

May the Fourth be With You — Reduced-fee entry day!

Posted on May 4, 2020

America’s First Curated Collection of Flash Fiction Artifacts

Posted on April 27, 2020

Review: 25 Trumbulls Road by Christopher Locke

Posted on April 20, 2020

Review: Little Feasts by Jules Archer

Posted on April 6, 2020

Review: This Is How He Learned To Love by Randall Brown

Posted on March 30, 2020

Flash, The Heart of a Story, and Index Cards

Posted on March 16, 2020

SLQ Contributors’ Books at AWP San Antonio

Posted on March 10, 2020

AWP Wrap Up and Micro Competition

Posted on March 9, 2020

AWP — Forecast for First-timers

Posted on March 2, 2020

The SmokeLong Flash Fiction Workshop Online — April 27-June 14

Posted on March 2, 2020

Review of The Best Small Fictions 2019

Posted on February 17, 2020

Review of Familial Disturbances by Mason Binkley

Posted on February 10, 2020

Strange Feasts and Where to Find Them – Twelve More Great Flash Fiction Novels / Novellas — Part III

Posted on February 3, 2020

The Solutions to Brian’s Problem: Teaching Flash Fiction to Incarcerated Writers

Posted on January 27, 2020

Strange Feasts and Where to Find Them – Twelve More Great Flash Fiction Novels / Novellas — Part II

Posted on January 20, 2020

Review: Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions by Sheila O’Connor

Posted on January 13, 2020

Strange Feasts and Where to Find Them – Twelve More Great Flash Fiction Novels / Novellas – Part I

Posted on January 6, 2020

The SmokeLong Flash Fiction Workshop — Online

Posted on January 5, 2020

The 2020 SmokeLong Nominations for The Best Small Fictions!

Posted on December 22, 2019

Congratulations to the SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship Finalists and Winner!

Posted on December 20, 2019

Review: Calls to Distant Places by Peter Jordan

Posted on December 9, 2019

SmokeLong’s Pushcart Nominations!

Posted on November 28, 2019

Review: Dustin M. Hoffman’s No Good for Digging

Posted on November 25, 2019

Review: Shine of the Ever by Claire Rudy Foster

Posted on November 18, 2019

SmokeLong Workshop at The Porch, Nashville

Posted on November 11, 2019

Review: the everrumble by Michelle Elvy

Posted on November 4, 2019

Get your name in to win! #flashgiving 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019

10 Stories from Our Archives to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

Posted on October 28, 2019

Fridge Flash: Der Goldenefisch / The Goldfish

Posted on October 21, 2019

Review: Tender Cuts by Jayne Martin

Posted on October 14, 2019

Flash in the Classroom: Contagion in the Flash Lab

Posted on October 7, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road – Catching up with Tania Hershman in Manchester, UK

Posted on September 30, 2019

Book Review: Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich

Posted on September 23, 2019

Book Review of All That Is Between Us by K.M. Elkes

Posted on September 9, 2019

Book Review: This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. by Jennifer Wortman

Posted on August 26, 2019

SmokeLong Workshops in Manchester and Birmingham, UK

Posted on August 19, 2019

An Interview with Guest Editor/Translator for Filipino, Kristine Ong Muslim

Posted on August 12, 2019

The SmokeLong Flash Fellowship for Emerging Writers is Open for Applications!

Posted on August 5, 2019

Fridge Flash: Powim 3 (for you)

Posted on July 29, 2019

A Review of Joseph Young’s Always Never Speaking: 50 Flash Fictions with Commentaries by the Author

Posted on July 22, 2019

Artist Spotlight — Peggy Reavey

Posted on July 15, 2019

A Review of David Carlin & Nicole Walker’s The After-Normal

Posted on July 8, 2019

SmokeLong Flash Fiction Workshop — London, July 6th

Posted on June 17, 2019

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

Posted on June 3, 2019

Review of Damhnait Monaghan’s The Neverlands

Posted on May 27, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road — Norwich (UK) Reading and Workshop

Posted on May 20, 2019

Book Review: The Middle Ground by Jeff Ewing

Posted on May 13, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road: Fairfax, VA Reading

Posted on May 6, 2019

Fridge Flash: Cold Bottom Bart and the Ship of Fire

Posted on May 1, 2019

A Book Review of The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb

Posted on April 29, 2019

SmokeLong Quarterly at AWP Portland — A Recap

Posted on April 22, 2019

Fridge Flash: The Grocery Alien

Posted on April 17, 2019

SmokeLong Flash Fiction Workshop in Norwich, England!

Posted on April 7, 2019

SmokeLong Flash Reading 2 at AWP in Portland

Posted on March 4, 2019

AWP SmokeLong Flash Reading 1

Posted on February 25, 2019

Wild Life: An Interview
with Kathy Fish

Posted on February 18, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road — A Video Interview with Helen Rye

Posted on February 11, 2019

A Review of Patrick Crerand’s The Paper Life They Lead

Posted on February 4, 2019

Nominations — The Best Small Fictions 2019

Posted on January 30, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road — Flash Reading in Singapore

Posted on January 28, 2019

Flash: The Literary Theory and Analysis Teacher’s Best Friend

Posted on January 21, 2019

SmokeLong on the Road: A Video Interview with Hananah Zaheer

Posted on January 14, 2019

A Review of Maria Romasco Moore’s Ghostographs: An Album

Posted on January 7, 2019

Muddy Boots by Tim Morriss

Posted on January 2, 2019

Losing and Finding in the Debris Field: A Review of In the Debris Field

Posted on December 23, 2018

Flashgiving Winner: Ellipsis Zine

Posted on December 19, 2018

Artist Spotlight: “Junk Artist” Chris Roberts

Posted on December 17, 2018

Book Review: Ben Berman’s Then Again

Posted on December 10, 2018

Flash in the Classroom: Winesburg to Las Perditas

Posted on December 3, 2018

2018 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Posted on November 30, 2018

Review: Christopher DeWan’s Hoopty Time Machines: Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups

Posted on November 26, 2018

Myth — Origin of the Blood Moon by Aravah Chaiken

Posted on November 19, 2018

Fridge Flash: Never Taste a Rainbow

Posted on November 15, 2018

Review: Stephanie Hutton’s Three Sisters of Stone

Posted on November 12, 2018

Artist Spotlight: The Unusual, Extraordinary Worlds of Cindy Fan

Posted on November 5, 2018

Nominate Your Favorite Journal for Our 2018 #FlashGiving Contest

Posted on November 5, 2018

Review: A Bright and Pleading Dagger by Nicole Rivas

Posted on October 29, 2018

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

Posted on October 22, 2018

Book Review: Sarah Layden’s The Story I Tell Myself About Myself

Posted on October 15, 2018

Flash in the Classroom: The Pleasure of Risk-taking

Posted on October 8, 2018

Book Review: Sophie Van Llewyn’s Bottled Goods

Posted on October 1, 2018

Nominations and More Nominations

Posted on September 17, 2018

Book Review: Dana Diehl’s TV Girls

Posted on September 10, 2018

Book Review: Mandy Huggins’ Brightly Coloured Horses

Posted on September 3, 2018

Book Review: Alligators at Night by Meg Pokrass

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Flash, Back: Langston Hughes’ The Simple Shorts

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2017 Kathy Fish Finalists Announced

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SmokeLong Quarterly’s 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominees: Round Two

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Fridge Flash: A Fox in Paris

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Flash, Back: The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

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The Deception of Flash

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Flash, Back: Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings”

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Interview with Rose Metal Press: Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest

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Organized Lightning

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News from Contributors and Staff

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Flexible Borders

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Flash, Back: Revisiting Jayne Anne Phillips

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The Temporal Art of Flash

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On the Mirror and the Echo

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Space Between

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Flash Fiction: A Flash Essay

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The Flash That Haunts Us

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Cool Stuff Writers Do: The Tool Project

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Interested in Everything

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Fridge Flash: Left Corner

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It Is Always a Sunday Afternoon in April

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The Expansiveness of Compressed Writing

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

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Idea of the Sprawl

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Framing Flash

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

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On Frayed Ends and Open Doors

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Artist Spotlight: Jessica Gawinski

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