A SmokeLong Summer 2022 - Special Issue

A SmokeLong Summer 2022 — Special Issue

September 2022

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. This summer we began the celebrations toward our 20th year publishing SmokeLong Quarterly, kicking it off with a three-month superworkshop hosting 300 participants: 250 in the main peer-review workshop, 35 who received only the writing tasks in their email, and around 15 who participated only in one or… Continue reading A SmokeLong Summer 2022 — Special Issue

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Smokelong Quarterly A SmokeLong Summer 2022 — Special Issue

Go Back Rebecca Fishow(Read author interview)
Orca Dawn Miller(Read author interview)
Mother Warns Us of Men Shareen K. Murayama(Read author interview)
sweat trails Erin Vachon(Read author interview)
My mother is an abandoned Kmart Amy Cipolla Barnes(Read author interview)
My Mother’s Breakup Story Annette Pearson(Read author interview)
Pepper Sauce Shea Stripling(Read author interview)
Strawberry Eyes Anahita Vieira(Read author interview)
Class Reunion Morgan Harlow(Read author interview)
The Tale We Told Christine H. Chen(Read author interview)
Looking Forward To Sharing Laughter And Fun Times Eliot Li(Read author interview)
Hurt Me Sara Hills(Read author interview)
21 Allen Drive Diane Gottlieb(Read author interview)
Another Problem Eels Don’t Need Elissa Field(Read author interview)
House of My Soon-to-Be Ex Claudia Monpere(Read author interview)
Alexandria Bay, 1976 Andrew Graham Martin(Read author interview)
When the Fire Goes Out Emily Roth(Read author interview)
Performance evaluation
of my ex-lover, Pearl L Swartz(Read author interview)

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest

Deadline November 15th!

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.

The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.

Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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