Issue Twenty-Six

September 2009

From the Editor

I am leaving SLQ after this issue to teach at and direct the MFA in Creative Writing program at Rosemont College, and that makes me think of how my association with SLQ began over five years ago when I first began my writing career at 38—with three rejections, one after another. I took these as… Continue reading Issue Twenty-Six

Continue Reading…

Cooped Alyson Foster(Read author interview)
My Girlfriend Leaves the Atmosphere Angi Becker Stevens(Read author interview)
Port of Spain Beverly A. Jackson(Read author interview)
So Long Ellen Parker(Read author interview)
Eye Foust(Read author interview)
They Marched Into Fields Jamie Iredell(Read author interview)
Nobody Like You Jeff Landon(Read author interview)
2 / 8 Joseph Young(Read author interview)
Prague Kathy Fish(Read author interview)
Blue-Suited Henchman, Kicked Into Shark Tank Kevin Wilson(Read author interview)
Quiet Things Lauren M. Spencer(Read author interview)
Arrows Lydia Copeland(Read author interview)
Pregnant With Peanut Butter Michael Czyzniejewski(Read author interview)
Ask for This Myfanwy Collins(Read author interview)
How to Disappear Completely Nadine Darling(Read author interview)
Office at Night Pamela Painter(Read author interview)
In Julie’s Place S. A. Tranter(Read author interview)
The Teaching Assistant and the Math Professor Shaindel Beers(Read author interview)
Record Albums Sherrie Flick(Read author interview)
Grendel Steven Douglas Gullion(Read author interview)
Little Girls Tara Laskowski(Read author interview)
First Husband Tiff Holland(Read author interview)
The Guitarist Will Donnelly(Read author interview)

Support SmokeLong Quarterly

Your donation helps writers, editors, reviewers, workshop leaders, and artists get paid for their work. If you’re enjoying what you read here, please consider donating to SmokeLong Quarterly today. We also give a portion of what we earn to the organizations on our "We Support" page.

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.

Learn more…