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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 31, 2023

Our featured author this week is Smokey Finalist Pat Jameson.

Pat Jameson is a writer from Roanoke, VA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in BULL, X-R-A-Y, and Final Girl Bulletin Board. Find him on Twitter @jameson_pat.

https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-pat-jameson/

Smoke & Mirrors with Pat Jameson - SmokeLong Quarterly

I am in awe of how much of a life is portrayed in this flash. There’s the full spectrum of achievements, sins, beginnings, and endings. This story is particularly focused on endings. What inspired you to start at the end of this character’s life? Regarding inspiration, I’m not sure how conscious all of my decisions… Continue reading Smoke & Mirrors with Pat Jameson

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 17, 2023
Jasmine Sawers is teaching a one-week intensive for SmokeLong March 20-26 on "Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash". Jasmine is a talented workshop leader who gives GREAT feedback. https://www.smokelong.com/product/fairy-tale-folklore-myth-in-flash-a-one-week-intensive/
Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash - A One-Week Intensive - SmokeLong Quarterly

Folktales, myths, and fairy stories are often the blueprints through which we learn narrative as children—though their content is frequently dark and bloodthirsty. Let’s interrogate their rhetoric, musicality, and cultural insight (and impact) as we harness their sway over our imaginations with original fairy-tale flash of our own. — Jasmine Sawers You will work in… Continue reading Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash — A One-Week Intensive

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 26, 2023

Our featured author this week is Jack Bedrosian.

https://www.smokelong.com/stories/vacations/

vacations - SmokeLong Quarterly

It’s our anniversary and also my birthday and she is in the pine needles on her hands and knees. She scrapes up poop and clears her throat, her shoes only halfway on. “I will not let them fuck me,” she says. The house is a product of the modern American security state. Cameras provide complete… Continue reading vacations

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 23, 2023
This week our featured author is Amy Cipolla Barnes!
https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-amy-cipolla-barnes-2/
Smoke & Mirrors with Amy Cipolla Barnes - SmokeLong Quarterly

Your story feels like an elegy for faith. Your narrator doesn’t want to lose faith in her mother—she actively searches for a way to keep believing her mother’s lies. Of course, we know where that’s headed—the clash happens off-page, off-camera. How much of that inevitable fallout happens for you while you are writing? My writing… Continue reading Smoke & Mirrors with Amy Cipolla Barnes

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 17, 2023
Jasmine Sawers is teaching a one-week intensive for SmokeLong March 20-26 on "Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash". Jasmine is a talented workshop leader who gives GREAT feedback. https://www.smokelong.com/product/fairy-tale-folklore-myth-in-flash-a-one-week-intensive/
Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash - A One-Week Intensive - SmokeLong Quarterly

Folktales, myths, and fairy stories are often the blueprints through which we learn narrative as children—though their content is frequently dark and bloodthirsty. Let’s interrogate their rhetoric, musicality, and cultural insight (and impact) as we harness their sway over our imaginations with original fairy-tale flash of our own. — Jasmine Sawers You will work in… Continue reading Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth in Flash — A One-Week Intensive

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 15, 2023
Our featured author this week is Scott Pomfret, third-place winner in the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-scott-pomfret/
Smoke & Mirrors with Scott Pomfret - SmokeLong Quarterly

Your story’s narrative form—unfurling a long list of both concrete and abstract items of varying importance—creates a very interesting dual effect: On the one hand, the more consequential items (e.g., infidelity) end up partially obscured by the mundane ones, suggesting the former may not be quite as impactful as they first seemed. On the other… Continue reading Smoke & Mirrors with Scott Pomfret

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 10, 2023
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 9, 2023

I’m thinking indictments may come down soon in Fulton County, Georgia. The investigative grand jury’s report is finished there, per news reports.

DA Fani Willis, come through!

SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 4, 2023

The SmokeLong senior editors have been giving feedback to hundreds of writers over the last two years. Now, we are offering The SmokeLong Mentorship, a tailored, personalized program. Send us your questions at [email protected]. Check the mentorship out here:

https://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-quarterly-mentorship/

The SmokeLong Quarterly Mentorship - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Quarterly mentorship is for writers of the flash narrative as well as flash-adjacent writers looking to take the next step in their writing by establishing goals, deepening their understanding of the revision process, and learning how to be their own best editor. You can start whenever is right for you. In this six-week… Continue reading The SmokeLong Quarterly Mentorship

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SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 2, 2023
cole beauchampJan 1, 2023

Woohoo - 1st story published this year! And in the wonderful Sundial Magazine, with a tale of a preserved shark (British Museum, 1875) and the man who tended it. Original artwork by Yaleeza Patchett.

Huge thanks to Gwen Kirby & @smokelong #Afterglow for the inspiration.

https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/flash/attendant-for-scale

#historicalfiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #histfic

Sundial Magazine - Attendant for Scale

Attendant for Scale Words by Cole Beauchamp Art by Yaleeza Patchett

SmokeLong QuarterlyJan 2, 2023

Our featured author this week is the second-prize winner of The Smokey, Oyinkansola Sofela!

https://www.smokelong.com/stories/remembrance/

Remembrance - SmokeLong Quarterly

Ibo’s Landing? That’s the place where they bring the Ibos over in a slave ship and when they get here, they ain’t like it and so…they march right down in the river…back to Africa, but they ain’t able to get there. They gets drown. – Floyd White (1930) Ain’t you heard about them? [They] rose… Continue reading Remembrance

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