SmokeLong Quarterly (@smokelong.bsky.social)

@danbillyc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:02 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

"...Monpere builds a constellation of sixty stories that continually shift between the microscopic and the immense, the domestic and the cosmic."

I love this phenomenal review by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social on @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's brilliant collection! 💙💙💙

@kcmeadbrewer.com Oct 10, 2026, 7:55 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Join me for some spooky writing fun on Halloween Eve 🦇⚡️ we'll be talking about how horror contributes to every genre & how to capitalize on each deliciously bloody drop of it in your stories

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:34 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Gill O'Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social reviews Claudia Monpere's stunning @claudiamonpere.bsky.social collection The Periodic Family at SmokeLong. Out soon! SmokeLong book celebration on Oct 18! More info soon! www.smokelong.com/review-claud...

On a beige and blue watercolor background: The Periodic Family, stories, Claudia Monpere. A curvy trail runs vertically along the right side with various constellations of families seeming to walk along it.

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:34 PM

Gill O'Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social reviews Claudia Monpere's stunning @claudiamonpere.bsky.social collection The Periodic Family at SmokeLong. Out soon! SmokeLong book celebration on Oct 18! More info soon! www.smokelong.com/review-claud...

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:54 AM

Congratulations and much success to our Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominees 2027!

@kcmeadbrewer.com Oct 9, 2026, 1:09 AMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Come join me for a night of exploring all things disturbing, eerie, & uncanny in your prose! 🦇⚡️

@maeganpoland.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:28 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

This will be great! Sign up for a workshop with @kcmeadbrewer.com !

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:45 PM

If you're participating in Promptember or you're in SmokeLong Fitness, this webinar/workshop with K.C. Mead-Brewer is on us! But even if you're not participating, you can still come! www.smokelong.com/product/trou...

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:19 PM

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@elissafield.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 11:22 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Check out my installment in @smokelong.bsky.social’s series introducing Submission Editors sharing insights from reading the queue. www.smokelong.com/meet-our-sub...
#flashfiction #elissafield

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:45 PM

"Do not ever doubt that we are here, reading the queue, cheering for you." Meet our submissions editors. This week, @elissafield.bsky.social Elissa Field. www.smokelong.com/meet-our-sub...

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:16 PM

The malicious ads are back on our website. Please don't click on the blue ad bars. We did not, nor would we ever, include ads in our posts. Our webmaster is working on this now.

@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:13 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Come learn with me and Sara Burge and Adele Williams and Joel Coltharp. Contact me at [email protected] if you have questions!

@aniking.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 11:57 AMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

@kplumhoff.bsky.social is one of my favorite writers, and you can’t go wrong with anything of hers, but I’ve always thought this one at @smokelong.bsky.social was ruin your life good:

www.smokelong.com/stories/good...

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 11:10 AM

Yay!!!

@bathflashaward.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:31 AMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Final day to enter our 34th Award! £1460 in prizes Judge @jmgatford.bsky.social Double and triple entries reduced. Up to 300 words. Thankyou to all the last minuters!
Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

@heyflashvillage.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:02 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

We've posted the Zoom links to the Promptember events in The Village, and we'll be sending out the invitation to join The Village to those of you who've booked. So many! We're excited. smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/prompt...

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:17 PM

Yay!!!

@smokelong.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:00 PMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

Please help us celebrate these publications reported to us in September by our previous and current workshop participants! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

@smokelong.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 6:29 AMReposted by @smokelong.bsky.social

"...how being in the world often feels to me." Nicola Caroli is our featured author this week. Read Ashley Jones' interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...