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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-Eight The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025

June 2025

From the Editor

I have so much to tell you. First of all, Happy Pride. SmokeLong is thrilled to announce The SmokeLong Quarterly Trans Writer Fellowship (spring 2026) in cooperation with SAFTA. The deadline to apply for this fellowship/residency is September 1st, 2025. Find out more HERE but read my letter first! It’s short! You can find the… Continue reading New Front (continue reading)

Smokelong Quarterly Issue Eighty-Eight The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025

SmokeLong Fitness--The Community Workshop

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The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.

 

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Elements of Flash

Flash writers approach the page–both drafting and editing–differently from writers of longer narrative forms. If you’re new to flash, you can now view the recorded version of “Elements of Flash” with Christopher Allen, the publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. This 45-minute version of the workshop–without breakout rooms and timed writing slots–covers foundational aspects of… Continue reading Elements of Flash

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Issue Forty

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

Featuring stories by: Adam PetersonAhimaaz RajeshBen BlackChristopher JamesElissa CahnFrances BadgettJason ShultsJon Chaiim McConnellJoseph MichaelsJules ArcherKelle GroomLeslie Jill PattersonMatt SailorMegan GiddingsRon CarlsonSherrie FlickSteve AlmondTerence LaneVenita BlackburnWilliam Yarbrough

Chi Pham

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Chi Pham

Chi Pham is a writer from Houston, Texas and Đồng Nai, Vietnam. He studies English and cognitive sciences at Rice University, where he won the 2025 Susan Wood Prize in Poetry. He serves as Arts and Entertainment Assistant Editor at The Rice Thresher.

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