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SmokeLong Quarterly

SmokeLong Quarterly has been dedicated to publishing the best flash narratives since 2003.

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Issue Eighty-Seven

December 2024

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you and so much to ask. These are troubling times, but you will have noticed this. What can an independent online journal do to resist rising fascism choking the arts and putting people at risk? In my last letter from the editor I mentioned the Kennedy Center, and now… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Eighty-Seven

SmokeLong Fitness--The Community Workshop

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The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.

 

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Issue Forty-Nine

There are still a few weeks left to submit to the 2016 Kathy Fish Fellowship. You are eligible if you are over 18, haven’t been published by SmokeLong before, and don’t have a chapbook or a book-length work published or under contract to be published. There’s a $500 prize on the line, thanks to our… Continue reading Issue Forty-Nine

Featuring stories by: Amy Sayre BaptistaMaggie SuJames KennedyCaitlin K. ClarkAsher KelseyGarrett AshleyDaniel DiFrancoMichael CredicoT.E. CowellVi Khi NaoJessica PlanteScott FentonJeff BakkensenMichelle RossSharmini AphroditeBenito M. Vergara, Jr.Elaine ChiewChad Simpson

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Author

Wafa-e-fatima

Wafa-e-fatima is a Holden Scholar and MFA candidate at Warren Wilson. She studied creative writing at the University of Houston, where she was a Mellon Foundation Fellow and earned a minor in Creative Writing. She also holds a J.D. and an L.L.M. from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives on the Gulf Coast with her two neurotic cockatiels and is currently at work on a short story collection.

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