Issue Forty
June 2013
From the Editor
Much good fiction is about the journey, the quest—where the characters often learn more from the process itself than they do once they get where they were going in the first place. SmokeLong Quarterly has itself had a significant journey. With this issue, the 40th issue, SmokeLong has been around for 10 years. Ten years!… Continue reading Issue Forty
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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.