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Paul Rousseau

Paul Rousseau is a disabled writer represented by Darhansoff & Verrill literary agency. His debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR is available from HarperCollins. Paul’s work has also appeared in Catapult, New Delta Review, CRAFT, Writer’s Digest, SmokeLong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Wigleaf, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsweek, among others, and has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2024, the Wigleaf Top 50, winner of the SmokeLong Summer CNF Competition 2024, as well as nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Convergence
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Paul Rousseau

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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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