Gill O’Halloran lives happily in London but sometimes escapes to wilder places. Her poetry book, ‘This Seven-Year-Old Walks Into a Bar’ was in the 2009 Small-Press Poetry Awards’ top 20 individual collections. She has fiction in Bath Flash Fiction Anthologies 2024 and 2025, and in Oxford Flash Fiction’s Transformations Anthology. Other work has appeared online in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Underbelly Press, and Thin Skin. She won first place in the Propelling Pencil Autumn 24 Flash Competition and is Editors’ Choice Award winner for National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025. @quickasaflash.bsky.social
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.