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Gabriel Houck

Gabriel Houck currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at Emory University. His first story collection, You or a Loved One, won the 2017 Orison Fiction Prize. His fiction appears in Glimmer Train, Mid American Review, The Sewanee Review, West Branch, The Cimarron Review and elsewhere, and his stories “When the Time Came” and “The Dot Matrix” were selected as distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Don’t Be Alarmed
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Gabriel Houck

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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.

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