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Smoke Signals with Colette Love Hilliard - SmokeLong Quarterly
You use a list-style Q&A format between the narrator and a hairdresser. What drew you to this structure, and how did it shape the piece? When I think about it, I’m drawn to structures that create a co...
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"I’m drawn to structures that create a contrast between tone and mood, so a list felt like a natural choice. It allowed me to explore a sad, messy topic through a neutral lens and gave me some much-needed distance" @colettelh.bsky.social, this week's featured author www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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We made a numbered list of everyone who shared our FlashGiving posts across social media (thank you!) and generated a random number, which was 38, which means that Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social is the winner of our 2025 FlashGiving draw! Please email [email protected], Gill.🙂
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We made a numbered list of everyone who shared our FlashGiving posts across social media (thank you!) and generated a random number, which was 38, which means that Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social is the winner of our 2025 FlashGiving draw! Please email [email protected], Gill.🙂
We made a numbered list of everyone who shared our FlashGiving posts across social media (thank you!) and generated a random number, which was 38, which means that Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social is the winner of our 2025 FlashGiving draw! Please email [email protected], Gill.🙂
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We made a numbered list of everyone who shared our FlashGiving posts across social media (thank you!) and generated a random number, which was 38, which means that Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social is the winner of our 2025 FlashGiving draw! Please email [email protected], Gill.🙂
Stay tuned for our FlashGiving Winner announcement later today!
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Stay tuned for our FlashGiving Winner announcement later today!
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It's time to nominate your favorite literary journals for Chill Subs' Best Lit Mag Awards 2025! Send five journals all the love! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's time to nominate your favorite literary journals for Chill Subs' Best Lit Mag Awards 2025! Send five journals all the love! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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How to Respond When Your Hairdresser Asks if You Have Any Children - SmokeLong Quarterly
No. This should end the conversation, though you might feel like a jerk for not expanding on your answer. It can come across as harsh and rude, and you don’t want to make her uncomfortable. You can so...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"I’m drawn to structures that create a contrast between tone and mood, so a list felt like a natural choice. It allowed me to explore a sad, messy topic through a neutral lens and gave me some much-needed distance" @colettelh.bsky.social, this week's featured author www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Colette Love Hilliard - SmokeLong Quarterly
You use a list-style Q&A format between the narrator and a hairdresser. What drew you to this structure, and how did it shape the piece? When I think about it, I’m drawn to structures that create a co...
www.smokelong.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I’m drawn to structures that create a contrast between tone and mood, so a list felt like a natural choice. It allowed me to explore a sad, messy topic through a neutral lens and gave me some much-needed distance" @colettelh.bsky.social, this week's featured author www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
"I’m drawn to structures that create a contrast between tone and mood, so a list felt like a natural choice. It allowed me to explore a sad, messy topic through a neutral lens and gave me some much-needed distance" @colettelh.bsky.social, this week's featured author www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke Signals with Colette Love Hilliard - SmokeLong Quarterly
You use a list-style Q&A format between the narrator and a hairdresser. What drew you to this structure, and how did it shape the piece? When I think about it, I’m drawn to structures that create a co...
www.smokelong.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I’m drawn to structures that create a contrast between tone and mood, so a list felt like a natural choice. It allowed me to explore a sad, messy topic through a neutral lens and gave me some much-needed distance" @colettelh.bsky.social, this week's featured author www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
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It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January fo...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FlashGiving! Today is the last day to get your name in the hat to possibly win $200 holiday $$. Just like/share this post or the original one. We'll choose a winner randomly tonight and announce tomorrow! Be sure to tag @smokelong.bsky.social to let us know you've entered!
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January, and we're sending out invitations today to join the onboarding small group for December. Come write with us! We are with 100% certainly absolutely not a cult. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January fo...
www.smokelong.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January, and we're sending out invitations today to join the onboarding small group for December. Come write with us! We are with 100% certainly absolutely not a cult. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
It's time to nominate your favorite literary journals for Chill Subs' Best Lit Mag Awards 2025! Send five journals all the love! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Best Lit Mag Awards - Chill Subs
Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.
www.chillsubs.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's time to nominate your favorite literary journals for Chill Subs' Best Lit Mag Awards 2025! Send five journals all the love! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Yay!!!!! What a great journal. Congratulations, Allison!
such a dream publication for me!!!
@riverteeth.bsky.social 💕
I read this essay at the @smokelong.bsky.social AWP reading this past year
riverteethjournal.com/print-journal/
@riverteeth.bsky.social 💕
I read this essay at the @smokelong.bsky.social AWP reading this past year
riverteethjournal.com/print-journal/
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Yay!!!!! What a great journal. Congratulations, Allison!
Yay!!!! Congratulations, Johannah!
Got a quirky micro up at Citywide Lunch today. This ☕️ coffee related piece was brewed during @smokelong.bsky.social October fitness….
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“Not Where You Eat” by Johannah Simon.
I won’t date a barista because you don’t shit where you eat and I literally eat breakfast every day at my local Starbucks. That’s why I avoid flirting with any coffee-adjacent workers. Even the cut…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Yay!!!! Congratulations, Johannah!
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BIO: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half-moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming at @smokelong.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social…
Mizuki
Mizuki is a writer of literary and speculative fiction exploring the thresholds between body and spirit, memory and forgetting, the natural and the surreal.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
BIO: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half-moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming at @smokelong.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @lostballoon.bsky.social…
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this @aimee-bender.bsky.social flash shared in @smokelong.bsky.social’s fitness prompt this week has me feeling some kind of way. give “Organs” a read if you haven’t yet. haunting and gorgeous on so many levels.
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www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...
Organs - SmokeLong Quarterly
Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs. You cannot safely empty them slowly, explains the doctor, as they hook hi...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this @aimee-bender.bsky.social flash shared in @smokelong.bsky.social’s fitness prompt this week has me feeling some kind of way. give “Organs” a read if you haven’t yet. haunting and gorgeous on so many levels.
www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...
www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...
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Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕
Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more
fracturedlit.com/we-write-our...
Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more
fracturedlit.com/we-write-our...
We Write Our Obsessions: An Interview with ALLISON FIELD BELL | Fractured
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕
Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more
fracturedlit.com/we-write-our...
Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more
fracturedlit.com/we-write-our...
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Join us...*not a cult*. Lovely to meet other writers.
We are writing with abandon. Promptember. Sign up and start writing with us next week. It's free. This one's on us. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us...*not a cult*. Lovely to meet other writers.
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It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
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We are writing with abandon. Promptember. Sign up and start writing with us next week. It's free. This one's on us. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Ready for Promptember 2025? - SmokeLong Quarterly
Join the SmokeLong community for Promptember, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live write-in events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Participate in o...
www.smokelong.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We are writing with abandon. Promptember. Sign up and start writing with us next week. It's free. This one's on us. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Congratulations, Laura!
Thrilled to share my new story in @thesunlightpress.bsky.social! I started it in @mauricenow.bsky.social’s workshop this summer @kenyonreview.bsky.social and expanded it in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. Thanks to workshop friends for encouragement and to @kelliborges2.bsky.social for choosing it!
Resistance - The Sunlight Press
We close the week with the third place winner in our 2025 Fall Flash Fiction Contest - "Resistance" by Laura Nagle.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congratulations, Laura!
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
Try SmokeLong Fitness - SmokeLong Quarterly
Are you curious about the community workshop of SmokeLong Fitness but don’t know if you can commit to a year without a peek behind the curtain? You can try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January fo...
www.smokelong.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's sign-up time to try SmokeLong Fitness in December and January! We'd love to get new particitrousers in by November 24 to do some onboarding since the first December writing task goes live on December 1st. Come write with us. We're not a cult. We promise. www.smokelong.com/product/try-...
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⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
⚡️Fast Flash Review: Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee. A stunning read. Plus, Melissa writes in Hawaiian Pidgin Creole & English, this book is a masterclass on authentic own voice writing. Unmissable.
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
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The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
Santa Clara University Students Read the Queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This week students from Claudia Monpere’s flash fiction course read our submission queue! Here is our interview with the students: Who are you? We’re a mix of creative writing minors and business and...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...
Santa Clara University Students Read the Queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly
This week students from Claudia Monpere’s flash fiction course read our submission queue! Here is our interview with the students: Who are you? We’re a mix of creative writing minors and business and...
www.smokelong.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The students of Claudia Monpere's flash fiction course are reading and discussing the SmokeLong queue this week! www.smokelong.com/santa-clara-...