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SmokeLong Quarterly

SmokeLong Quarterly has been dedicated to publishing the best flash narratives since 2003.

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Issue Eighty-Seven

December 2024

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you and so much to ask. These are troubling times, but you will have noticed this. What can an independent online journal do to resist rising fascism choking the arts and putting people at risk? In my last letter from the editor I mentioned the Kennedy Center, and now… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Eighty-Seven

SmokeLong Fitness--The Community Workshop

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The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.

 

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Issue Seventy-Five

I have so much to tell you. First, we have nine gems to share with you in issue 75, and I’m sending out of big hug to the ‘we’: the 26 readers/editors who give so much of their time to make sure SmokeLong runs smoothly, the interviewers, the artists, and the web designer who is… Continue reading Issue Seventy-Five

Featuring stories by: Rebecca BernardEmma BrankinA. J. BermudezMelissa Llanes BrownleeCorey FarrenkopfEliot LiCandice MayDeesha PhilyawLucy Zhang

Gill O’Halloran

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

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