Issue Sixty-Three

March 2019

From the Editor

So much is happening in our immensely tiny flash world right now: workshops on- and off- line, retreats, festivals, competitions, and best-of anthologies for just about any species of flash you can think of. We might just be experiencing a Copernican Revolution in flash fiction—and it is so exciting. Not a day scrolls by on… Continue reading Issue Sixty-Three

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Hatched Nicole Rivas(Read author interview)
A Map of Woebegone Places Elaine Chiew(Read author interview)
In November 2017 S.L. Bailey(Read author interview)
Airplane Mode Raven Leilani(Read author interview)
Ursa Minor Amie Souza Reilly(Read author interview)
Bone Didi Wood(Read author interview)
Comatose Fatima Alharthi(Read author interview)
Helicopter Parent MFC Feeley(Read author interview)
Viva Forever L.W. Nicholson(Read author interview)
Useful Information Kim Magowan(Read author interview)
Easter Egg Surprise Venita Blackburn(Read author interview)
What Wasn’t Swallowed Was Exhaled Tucker Leighty-Phillips(Read author interview)
Not Louise Sutton Strother(Read author interview)
Emma Jane Watson in a Drawer Natalie Teal McAllister(Read author interview)
Lion’s Tooth Kate Finegan(Read author interview)
From Your Jerry Kevin Sterne(Read author interview)
The Strings Between Us James Braun(Read author interview)
Space Junk Tom DeBeauchamp(Read author interview)
Blank Shoshana Surek(Read author interview)

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We’re doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writing task each day, peer review in small groups, 3 webinars, a reading and interview with Michelle Ross and the editors of 100 Word Story, and 3 competitions with cash prizes.

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