Sarah Fawn Montgomery will be joining us on September 12th at 10am ET to lead the 90-minute online workshop "Discovering Disabled Forms and Structures," and you can come even if you're not in SmokeLong Fitness. www.smokelong.com/september-on...

Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Congratulations to @lkardos.bsky.social who has won The SmokeLong Summer Blurb Challenge! $200! Our next challenge is The Archive Challenge. If you're participating in A SmokeLong Summer 26, be sure to choose your journal by midnight ET tonight! #blurbchallenge

SmokeLong is thrilled to nominate 2 authors for the PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! L.A. Strycker and Ryne Ryne! L.A. Strycker won The Smokey, and Ryne Ryne's story is forthcoming in September!

Come and hear Amy Hempel read and talk about her work! Support rescue dogs in the NYC area through www.everylastonerescue.org with your ticket! What a day. Sunday July 26, Noon NYC online.

This Sunday July 26, a special 90-minute live interview and reading with Amy Hempel! Included with A SmokeLong Summer/$19 tickets available to anyone via link: www.smokelong.com/product/smok... Proceeds to NYC dog rescue, Every Last One www.everylastonerescue.org. Noon NYC online. Don't miss this.

Delighted to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net Anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social: Non-fiction: "Organs" by Aimee Bender; "How To Mourn Your Mother" by Suzanne Biro Fiction: "Jigger" by John Dufresne; "On Trees and Treefrogs" by L.A. Strycker Art: Cover art, Issue 92 by Martins Deep

Congratulations to Claire Y. Guo and L.F. Khouri for their SmokeLong stories selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2026, and to all our friends and SLQ family in the top 50 and long list.

"When the hurt becomes too heavy to speak into existence, Star Trek takes its place." Brett Hymel reviews Finnian Burnett's must-read novella-in-flash, Redshirts Sometimes Survive. www.smokelong.com/read-short-a...

Issue 92 of SmokeLong Quarterly is live! Featuring the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 and the winners of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. All of it is gold. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety...

It's cover reveal time! Issue 92 is out on Monday June 15. Including the winners and finalists of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and the SmokeLong Workshop Prize. Cover art by Martins Deep.

The winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 is L.A. Strycker and the story "On Trees and Treefrogs"! Congratulations also to our 2nd and 3rd place winners and finalists! We can't wait to share your stellar work on June 15th! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Ellen Garard has won second place in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 for the story "Fruit of Our Body!" Stay tuned for the first-place winner soon! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Announcing the third place winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, Kate Catinella for the story "Small Something"! Second and First places coming later today! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

We've planned a party. Come dance with us! The registration deadline for A SmokeLong Summer 26 is tomorrow! May 23rd! www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction Long List is Live! Congratulations to everyone on the list and to everyone who entered this year! Anonymous judging ongoing! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

"...characters with blindspots..." Our featured author this week is Margaret Dunn. Read Courtney Leigh Burton's interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

VERY EXCITED to welcome shiny new Submissions Editors Shareen Murayama and Lisa Muschinski to the SmokeLong team. You can read a little about them on our masthead: www.smokelong.com/masthead/

THE SMOKEY 2026 ENDS TONIGHT, SUNDAY MAY 10, MIDNIGHT ET! Just a few hours left!

It's deadline weekend for the Smokey! Midnight ET this Sunday is the absolute last second to send your 1000-words-or-fewer entry to this year's award contest.

The finalists will make up the June issue of SmokeLong Quarterly. Ends this Sunday May 10, midnight NYC.

Ending Sunday!

Join Christopher Allen on May 30th for another installment of Elements of Flash! www.smokelong.com/product/may-...

We've reached that time, once again, when our legendary math skills really begin to shine. According to our countdown: today, April 29, there are 10 days left to enter this year's Smokey, our contest ending midnight ET, May 10. So we'll just have a really long guitar solo in the middle or something.

Honorable Mentions were: 100-word Jacqueline Goyette Christina Tudor Colleen Addison 200-word Didi Wood Shira Musicant Emily Rinkema Amy Allen 400-word Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mandy Lange Joyce Barton

The winners of the 2026 March Micro Marathon competitions are here! This year's Marathoners drafted over 2,000 stories in just 24 days. They all deserve medals. 100-word story: Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 250-word story: Joyce Barton 400-word story: Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social

Now only 11 days to send your entry to the $2,500-first-prize SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026. Ends midnight ET on May 10. The final countdown starts tomorrow.

12 days to enter. Maybe you’re even now revising the story that will win the $2,500 first prize in this year’s Smokey. Don’t forget the deadline is midnight ET on May 10. 1,000 words or smaller.

"...telling deeply personal stories feels more accessible, more possible in the second person because I can write as an observer." Roberta Holland is our featured author this week. Read Genevieve Richards' interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...