SmokeLong Quarterly

Dear Friends,

Cha-cha-cha-cha-changes…

I’ve got some very exciting SmokeLong news to announce. First, we are working on a long-awaited redesign of our web site, which will give us a new look and feel. Though we will continue to feature everything SmokeLong is ‘famous’ for—author interviews, artwork, archives and all-year, all-the-time open submissions—we hope to also make our stories and issues more easy to read, our interviews easier to find, and our authors and guest editors front and center. So look for that later this year!

We also have some staff changes to report. Sadly, our long-time editor Beth Cox Thomas has retired from staff to allow for some much-needed writing time. We will miss her dearly, but hope to see some amazing stories, books and other successes coming her way soon.

We are thrilled to bring aboard our newest staff member, Erin Fitzgerald. Erin is a fantastic editor and writer and we are thrilled to have her. Check her stories out in places such as PANK, Hobart, Salt Hill, and Wigleaf. She lives in western Connecticut.

We also welcome our two new Interview Editors—Michael Czyzniejewski (whose last name I WILL learn to spell) and Karen Craigo. If you’ve ever read one of Mike’s SLQ interviews, you will know why we are beyond belief thrilled about this. Check out the latest one with Matthew Fogarty in this issue! Karen and Mike will be making sure our author interviews are insightful and hilarious.

So enough about us—here is Issue 44 for you! It’s a good, eclectic bunch this go-around—featuring Farrah Fawcett, post-apocalyptic adultery, ghosts, Easy Rider, punk rockers and masturbating truck drivers, among other things.

Thanks to all our writers, artists and editors for continuing to make this all possible.

Love,

Tara Laskowski
Senior Editor, SmokeLong Quarterly