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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-Five

September 2024

From the Editor

Art is political, and it always has been. Nothing new here but plenty to see. In the United States—as I’m sure you’ve noticed even if you live in Botswana, Belgium, or Belize— we’re in the middle of a close race for the Presidency between an intelligent, empathetic person and a narcissistic sociopath who tried to… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Eighty-Five

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Draft Done! Now What?
with Sara Lippmann

Huzzah, draft done! But the end, of course, is just the beginning. In this lively 90-minute webinar, we’ll discuss various approaches to revision. How to dig deeper into our intentions? How do we unearth those intentions if they’re murky in the first place? What warrants expansion, compression, or belongs on the cutting room floor? Honoring… Continue reading Draft Done! Now What?
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Issue Twenty-Six

I am leaving SLQ after this issue to teach at and direct the MFA in Creative Writing program at Rosemont College, and that makes me think of how my association with SLQ began over five years ago when I first began my writing career at 38—with three rejections, one after another. I took these as… Continue reading Issue Twenty-Six

Featuring stories by: Alyson FosterAngi Becker StevensBeverly A. JacksonEllen ParkerFoustJamie IredellJeff LandonJoseph YoungJoseph YoungKathy FishKevin WilsonLauren M. SpencerLydia CopelandMichael CzyzniejewskiMyfanwy CollinsNadine DarlingPamela PainterS. A. TranterShaindel BeersSherrie FlickSteven Douglas GullionTara LaskowskiTiff HollandWill Donnelly

Allison Field Bell

Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Prose at the University of  Utah, and she has an MFA in Fiction from New Mexico State University.  She is the author of the poetry chapbook, WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY, forthcoming 2025 from Finishing Line Press and the creative nonfiction chapbook, EDGE OF THE SEA, forthcoming 2025 from Cutbank. Allison’s prose appears or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Gettysburg  Review, The Adroit Journal, New Orleans Review, West Branch, and  elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review,  Passages North, Palette Poetry, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review,  and elsewhere.

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