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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thinking about starting SmokeLong Fitness in October? You can register now annually or monthly. SmokeLong Fitness has made flash writers 83% more adorable since 2022, and we are absolutely not a cult. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

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SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

last call for your weird queer environmental justice novellas! we close at the end of this month. (you can also send us stuff that isn't weird or queer but I'm less likely to be the one to edit it if we do buy it). full guidelines here: reckoning.press/submit/novel...

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Are you an aspiring writer ready to learn more about craft? I'm teaching Intro to Prose Fiction in the @uofguelph.bsky.social's School of Continuing Studies' this Fall. I prioritize welcoming and enthusiastic environments and I'd loved you to join us. courses.scs.uoguelph.ca/search/publi...

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7000025 Introduction to Prose Fiction

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our 2026 Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! Our judge this year is Kirti Bhadresa! Prize: $2000 + Publication! Deadline: Sept. 1, 2026 Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic... #callforauthors #submissionsopen #canlit #fiction #callforfiction #litmag

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a must-attend for anyone leading workshops or teaching creative writing.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PSA: We are going to start reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest on August 1st! Previously published and unpublished micros 250 words or fewer, fiction, CNF, micros that lean poetic considered. Opens Aug 1st, closes Nov 15. Grand prize $1000! Details soon!

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"I wanted death to be a beautiful, positive surprise, because why not?" Mamie Willoughby Pound is our featured author this week. Read Amy Marques' interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

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Smoke Signals with Mamie Willoughby Pound - SmokeLong Quarterly

I love the title! It has length (which can be a fun twist in flash or micros) and humor. It sets a stage for a story where there could be multiple meanings and layers of meaning and interpretation. Wo...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Appropriated trauma" - Murray Dunsmore is our featured author this week. Read Chey Dugan's interview with the author at SmokeLong, and then don't miss "Sutures," which was a finalist in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

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Smoke Signals with Murray Dunsmore - SmokeLong Quarterly

“Everyone always eventually leaves”—a belief the narrator holds that prevents him from forming deep connections. Though not an experience unique to him, his fear brings about a dissociative nature. Wh...

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"‘What about Sara?’ I remembered to ask one afternoon. ‘Doesn’t she mind you being gone so long?’ His whole face changed, then, and I thought that once he looked at me like that." So much packed into this micro by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/06/29/m...

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Microfiction #63

In those final days by Laura Besley it was my ex-husband who cared for me. I like to think he did it for the children’s sake and not for some sort of praise or morbid fascination. (In our final day…

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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

'After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a mannequin.' Tender & propulsive piece by @kellypedro.bsky.social #flashfiction It Doesn’t Budge citronreview.com/2026/06/30/i...

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It Doesn’t Budge

by Kelly Pedro After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a manne…

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I have loved and admired @thecitronreview.bsky.social for years and so I'm absolutely delighted to find my flash in its latest issue! Like so much of my flash, this story started in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop (write about an object for sale on FB Marketplace) citronreview.com/2026/06/30/i...

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It Doesn’t Budge

by Kelly Pedro After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a manne…

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Registration is now open to begin SmokeLong Fitness August 1st. You can book annually, monthly, or Try SmokeLong Fitness for two months. All options are in the SmokeLong Shop. www.smokelong.com/shop/

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Shop - SmokeLong Quarterly

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Writers in Europe! Our EIC will be leading a workshop on bending time in flash. And Madrid is the best.

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"In my third year of teaching, the janitor discovers a portal to another world in the third stall of the girls’ bathroom and I am diagnosed with cancer. Which would you like to know about more?" Read "Portal"by Asher Kelsey in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/f...

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Flash Fiction: Portal by Asher Kelsey

The thing about portals is this: you don’t know what’s on the other side.

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"—freezing diamonds with our motor-control impaired our feet trudging unsteady through the fresh snow still laughing—" Brilliant flash by @damicandrea.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social!

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Still floored by this honour. Thank you to The Writers' Union of Canada, jurors & readers! Like many of my stories, this winning story started in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop 3 years ago! It's not flash anymore. Read the press release here: writersunion.ca/news/kelly-p...

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Kelly Pedro’s “Terceira Rift” Wins $2,500 Prize — The Writers’ Union of Canada’s 33rd Annual Short Prose Competition | The Writers' Union of Canada

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This was such a great conversation. If you missed it the first time around, it's available now for your viewing pleasure.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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...

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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...

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Here are some literary journals opening or closing for submissions sometime in June—some are open now or will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary & dates are tentative. I think these are all no-fee. There are more resources out there, including on this platform. Wish y’all well.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Such a useful resource - thanks Shome. I may even find the energy / time / will / desire to send out a submission at some point in June... ... or maybe not 🙃 And to add to this, the @welkinpress.bsky.social will be open for entries to the new genre prize! 🥳🥳 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

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The Welkin Genre Prize

A competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole universe...

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My adult neighbour is learning to ride a bike on our street and it's taking everything I have not to stop marking assignments in the yard and run after them cheering "Go! Go! You got this!" Never stop learning new things.

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I've decided that when I'm grading student assignments, I need to be surrounded by candy. I've also decided that this is completely reasonable. If you need me, I'll be at Bulk Barn.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Some news! Hermit Crab Flash Fiction Workshop Sunday, 9/27, 2026 1–5pm (ET) Online $80 In this highly generative four-hour writing workshop, you’ll write three flash using found forms. Lots of feedback, lots of work, lots of fun! Click here for the sign-up info: www.cherylpappas.net/events

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Workshops & Readings — Cheryl Pappas

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

🌟 Mark your calendars! 🌟 JMWW is reopening flash submissions June 1! We cap at 40 submissions/reading period so don't delay. I'd love to see (or not "see" since we read anonymously 😅) your work in the queue.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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...

A poster tacked onto a bulletin board with the wording The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction LONG LIST. At the center of the image is an old-fashioned polaroid camera.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Do you know about The Village? It's a free space for flash writers to connect away from the noise of social media.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Summer is coming! Book by May 23rd. Bring a friend for no extra dollars. This year A SmokeLong Summer is longer and fuller than ever. Did we say you need to book by May 23rd? Yes, we did. www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

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A SmokeLong Summer 26 - SmokeLong Quarterly

A SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer. As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop i...

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Mounds of clothes grow taller in the basket while she reads Ms. magazines. I find her in the pantry reading The Feminine Mystique, the pages dog-eared in perfect triangles while the potatoes in the oven burn." Gorgeous writing by @dawnwriter.bsky.social by @jmwwjournal.bsky.social shorturl.at/7Rt0O

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Flash Fiction: Inside Out by Dawn Miller

“Won’t they just wrinkle while we sleep?” I ask, and my mother gives me a sad look that scoops out my heart.

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Or the toilet flooding upwards towards the second floor as you pass by on your way to the kitchen." Michael Mirolla plays with the fluidity of time so well in "The Debuts." Read it now in HELD Magazine.

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The Debuts - Flash — HELD Magazine

I’m never sure if it’s just coincidence but things start to happen the moment you show up at the house with your debut poetry collection in one arm and latest baby in the other. As usual, although…

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Dark hair and chubby cheeks. Stained shirt and tiny jeans. Pink bucket hat and doll hair clenched between her baby teeth." I love the details in this flash by Isabella Maingat. Read "eglinton west to lakeshore east" in HELD Magazine. heldmagazine.ca/transit/proj...

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eglinton west to lakeshore east - Flash — HELD Magazine

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My goretastic story The Butcher of Mazdin has been shared online by @sluggerfiction.bsky.social I think of it as set in a Conan-style world, but it features a disabled pauper instead of a beefcake barbarian. sluggerfiction.com/the-butcher-...

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The Butcher of Mazdin by Shantell Powell

Art by Kit Carter The Butcher of Mazdin towers high atop his pedestal, a bronze monument huge enough to empty all the mines in the region. Every seven years, we throng to his feet in the heat of th…

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Shoutin' from the tower at the De Young Museum: jump over to @stanchion.bsky.social and get @tcboudreau.bsky.social 's collection!

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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Brandon Nadeau's "The Call of the Void" from Issue 178! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/the-ca... #readersofbluesky #fiction #amreading #callofthevoid

Excerpt of Brandon Nadeau's short story "The Call of the Void," published on The New Quarterly website.

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"One by one the black lines fly by like an 8mm vintage movie reel, turning my stare out the angled window of the Jeep into a trance." The HELD Magazine relaunch is complete with our "Transit" issue now published, featuring 3 incredible flashes. heldmagazine.ca/transit/proj...

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Decompression — HELD Magazine

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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Seeking a Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor (or two)! Associate CNF Editors Wanted! JMWW applications are open until June 14th.

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Seeking a Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor (or two)!

Associate CNF Editors Wanted! JMWW applications are open until June 14th.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

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Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"I’m no scientist, but I was heartbroken, and I thought that if I went to the most remote place I knew, if I stared my loneliness straight in the eye, it might cure me of it forever." This @sandrakhalil.bsky.social flash is SO GOOD. Don't miss it! www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/moos...

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Moose Parts by Sandra Carlson Khalil | Hippocampus Magazine

"There’s an island in the middle of Lake Superior that’s home to moose and wolves. I spent a week there once..." -- from Moose Parts by Sandra Carlson Khalil

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