SmokeLong Quarterly
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SmokeLong Quarterly
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Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. No Trump supporters.
- Any flash writers left here? We're getting mostly bots, and our reach has gone from thousands, sometimes 10s of thousands, per post to hundreds. Are you still here?
- WE HAVE BIG NEWS! "Beginning January 1, 2023 we will begin paying $100 per narrative. Submitting to and reading SmokeLong will always be free." —Christopher Allen. Read more here! smokelong.com/the-end-is-nea…
- It’s @Christopher_All’s birthday! Happy birthday to our much-loved editor-in-chief. Send him many otters. ❤️🦦
- HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, competition/submission fees, membership, critiques, books—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like and share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose.
- Also, we have BIG FAT NEWS. We are now a paying market!! From here on out, as long as funds permit, we will be able to pay our contributors $25/story.(smokelong.com/we-are-now-a-p…) Live footage from our editorial offices when we found out the news:
GIF - It's FLASHGIVING TIME AGAIN! Like this Tweet to win $200 in the books of your choice! RT to double your chances. RTs of RTs also eligible. Ends at midnight EST on Wednesday 23 so we can give the books on Thanksgiving. Share the flash love.
- OH OKAY we're too excited for further mysteriousness...Announcing the SMOKELONG QUARTERLY COMEDY PRIZE 2021! Open Aug 1. Word limit: 782. Font: visible. Entry $7 (free day for low-income writers). Previously published: eligible. Four stories win $400 each. smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…
- We are beyond thrilled to announce The Harry Ransom Center (@ransomcenter) at the University of Texas at Austin has established the first curated collection of flash fiction works in the United States. smokelong.com/americas-first…
- Drumroll, please...announcing THE SMOKELONG GRAND MICRO COMPETITION 2023. Its friends call it The Mikey. It pays a lot of cash for a small but beautiful number of words. Coming to your laptops in August. Get those tiny stories ready...
- We are OPEN for general submissions, which are always free. We accept flash fiction and CNF up to 1000 words. We pay $100/$150 with audio. Send us your words.
GIF - We’re so happy to be welcoming Amber Sparks as our guest editor for Issue 72. Send her your shiniest work. We’re looking for flash fiction/flash CNF. Issue 71 with guest ed Steve Edwards is being polished up ready for March. We’re excited for you to read what we’ve been reading.
- We are now open to flash cnf & hybrid narratives!!!!! As long as you stay under 1,000 words, we want your stories, no matter how you want to tell them.
