Tom Jackson is Marketing Manager and an Associate Editor for Night Train. His latest fiction will appear in an upcoming issue of Monkeybicycle. His short film One-Track Mind recently won the People’s Choice Prize at the Black Earth Film Festival in Illinois. He is an copywriter/creative director/photographer for an in-house ad agency and has served as a film/theater reviewer, illustrator and humor columnist for a Central Illinois daily newspaper. He will be making his second appearance on Jordan Rosenfeld’s “Word by Word” show on California NPR affiliate KRCB in January. He wrote and shot pictures for the Seminary Street feature in Night Train Issue III, and his interview with Robert Hellenga appears in Night Train Issue IV. He will interview Garrison Keillor for Night Train Issue V.
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.