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Congratulations to all winners of Best Small Fictions 2025, including Ani King, and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu with their SmokeLong stories and all the participants of SmokeLong Fitness. medium.com/the-coil/annou…

We are looking for submissions editors. If you've been published by SmokeLong already and would like to read for the journal, hit us up. smokelong.com/work-with-us

Kicking off A SmokeLong Summer 25 today! We can't wait to start two months of intensive fun, peer-review workshopping, webinars, readings, panel discussions, competitions, and more. Welcome to all 200 particitrousers!

I had so much fun talking with Tim and Art from tiffininnwritingworkshop for this podcast episode—check it out! Includes shoutouts to SmokeLong Quarterly & Not Quite Write & HAD and so many others. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tif…

It's a bit late to join the peer-review workshop of A SmokeLong Summer 25, but you can still join in the live events (all also recorded)! smokelong.com/product/a-smok…

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live. axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-…

Now’s the time for public discussions about how to maximize the benefits and limit the harms of this powerful new technology. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/tec…

Last chance to book! Tomorrow! June 1st. smokelong.com/product/micro-…

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06…

I have a new speculative, climate story out with Inkfish Magazine. I hope you check it out! As always, thank you also to SmokeLong Quarterly for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to Ingrid Jendrzejewski who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story out. tinyurl.com/what-moon-woul…

When the Pres calls in the National Guard to oppress peaceful protestors, when ABC News feels compelled to fire a reporter for speaking truth to power, when the Pres cuts funding of scientific research bc he doesn’t like the politics of universities, it’s called dictatorship!

Congratulations, Beth!

thank you!