Issue Eighty-Four - The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Issue Eighty-Four — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

June 2024

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. I spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about why a journal hosts a competition at all–or conversely why everything isn’t a competition. I might never decide how I feel. The conversation, though, is an important one to have. I’d love to do an AWP panel on competitions:… Continue reading Issue Eighty-Four — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

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Smokelong Quarterly Issue Eighty-Four — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

Grocery Store Mama Shayla Frandsen(Read author interview)
Octopus Heart Latifa Ayad(Read author interview)
Strong Female Character Goes by Her Last Name Only Stephanie Yu(Read author interview)
American Monster Natalie Warther(Read author interview)
Hair On My Chest Caroline Bock(Read author interview)
Pompeii Sandra Carlson Khalil(Read author interview)
Sarah draws little moustaches Brendan Todt(Read author interview)
Bird Watching Sara Kaplan-Cunningham(Read author interview)
And At Christmas I’ll Visit the Nursing Home, Pretend An Elderly Couple Are My Grandparents Jo Withers(Read author interview)
Illusion Museum SL Syarief(Read author interview)
The Maze Denise Napoli Long(Read author interview)
Ambrosia H.J. Shepard(Read author interview)

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