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August 9th! Master Series Reading and Interview with Aimee Bender

August 6, 2025

This event has passed, but you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel

We are excited to invite you to an interview and reading with Aimee Bender, the author of the collections The Girl in the Flammable SkirtWillful Creatures, and The Color Master; and the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeAn Invisible Sign of My Own, and most recently The Butterfly Lampshade. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages.

This event is open to the public, but everyone needs to request the Zoom link through the shop if they are not in SmokeLong Fitness. Alternatively, if you have trusted friends who want to attend, you can give them the Zoom link, or you can direct them to the SmokeLong Shop. It’s free! And we’ll be giving away lots of books.

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A SmokeLong Summer 26!

A SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer.

As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop in small groups of around 15 writers, drafting to 3 writing tasks each week. Our peer-review workshop is all in writing, so you can participate from anywhere, anytime. This summer our writing tasks will be generative and thematically leaning towards community. Our theme this year: “The Global Flash Village”. Writing doesn’t have a be a game of Solitaire; it can be a team sport.

Our participants often say their writing has dramatically increased in community. A SmokeLong Summer 26 will take you around the world, introducing you to writers from every corner of our beautiful planet.