We are! SmokeLong is 20 years old. One of the cool things at our year-long birthday party is the biennial SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest. It’s right over there, by the chocolate fountain. 20 days to go! smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

Yay!!!!!! Yay!!!!!! Yay!!!!!! This is great! Congratulations, Dawn!

“The deadline for the SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition aka #TheMikey with its chance to win $1,500/$500/$300/be a finalist for $100 and get published in the Dec issue of SLQ to joy and great acclaim, spooky panda” is the answer you’re looking for. smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

Our fave short stories for Decembrrrrr is out now! A whole bunch of wintery stories to help you through this most joyous and also unjoyous of seasons, featuring Janika Oza Quote 52 tiptreejen @StillSquirrel Jan Kaneen Elisabeth Ingram Wallace and Emily Devane bit.ly/3R9WWAV

It's so lovely when this happens. Flash can feel so fleeting. It's published then it's gone. So, why don't we all post our favourite story from the "past", tag the author to let them know, and maybe tag a couple of friends to keep things going? #RevisitAFavouriteFlash

Thrilled to come 3rd in the #WestWordPrize with my flash "Competition for Scarce Resources." I've been mulling on this story for ages. First wrote it on #SmokelongAfterglow Elizabeth Ingram Wallace in 2022, w feedback from Claudia Monpere Avitus B. Carle (she/her) westword.substack.com/p/competition-…

See all ten finalists of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize 2023 here! We'll be awarding this free-entry prize for published stories begun in a SmokeLong workshop again in 2025, so keep a list, workshoppers! smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

Check out my story “Eve, The Vegetarian” out today in BULLSHIT LIT. This one was born in a SmokeLong Quarterly workshop with the great guidance of Elisabeth Ingram Wallace. bullshitlit.com/blog/cbigelow #flashfiction #microfiction #adamandeve #gardenofeden #amwriting #writerscommunity

And we're off! The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction is open for entries! Grand prize $2500. 2nd prize $1000. 3rd prize $500. All finalists $100! smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

A thing I've found about my chronic illness is that I want people to know about it but I also don't want people to know about it. I certainly don't want pity & I don't want to be othered. But I've decided to be brave & share an essay on my website: mattkendrick.co.uk/under-the-weat… (1/10)

🐑I am very happy that my short story 'The Strange Sheep of Greshornish' will be published in April! I've been away from writing for a while, so I'm thrilled to return with some zombie sheep! Big congrats to Philip Wilson & huge thanks Glencairn Glass and Bloody Scotland🐏

This month's #Mondettes have been chosen by the stupendous Sharon Telfer 10x brilliant pieces of flash fiction 10x wonderful analyses of what makes the stories tick 3x fantastic prompts mondettes.substack.com/p/march-2024

ONE DAY LESS UNTIL THE DEADLINE FOR #THESMOKEY We are bad at dates/numbers in general so might approach the whole countdown like this until that also gets mathematically complex. What is un-complex, though, is that TIME RUNNETH SHORT. Much like that story we want you to submit...

We’re heading into the final bit of the final final countdown which basically means there is ALMOST NO TIME LEFT until the deadline for #TheSmokey, midnight NYC, April 30. Have you sent your entry? $2,500 top prize, 2nd & 3rd $1000/$500, finalists $100, published in SmokeLong ⭐️