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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?
with Sara Lippmann

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Issue Thirty-Nine

March has been an exciting month, with Kathy Fish Fellowship applications and the Association of Writers and Writing Conference (AWP) in Boston. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our bookfair table at AWP. We had a great time seeing old friends and making new ones. And a wonderful end to the conference—at one of the… Continue reading Issue Thirty-Nine

Featuring stories by: Beth KonkoskiCara LongCarol Guess and Kelly MageeDaniel Wessler RiordanEmily RinkemaGabrielle HovendonGlenn ShaheenJames ZerndtJ.D. JahangirJennifer A. HowardKara VernorManuela SilvestreMark L. KeatsMatthew BrennanPeter KispertRachel LyonTammy PeacyTJ RivardTara Lynn MasihVincent Pagé

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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