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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 6h

We can't wait for Chicago and to spend an evening with old and new friends in the flash community! We've planned a 5-hour eventapalooza just to make sure you can stop by even if you have another off-site on Thursday.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On the one hand, his human loves him so much that she bought him another soft throw blanket for him to take naps on. It even has some very cute birds on it. Unfortunately, these birds are INEDIBLE!!! This makes him question his human’s generosity (and, frankly, her intelligence).

A tuxedo cat sits like a loaf on a throw blanket with a multicolored bird motif. He is giving the photographer an accusatory stare.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

French II is starting a food unit, so we’re starting with a quick review of common vocabulary. I should have timed my soliloquy this morning about the baguette. It might have been a bit much, but on the other hand, my students had follow-up questions 🤷‍♀️🥖

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you, @ellipsiszine.bsky.social, for showcasing historical flash! So happy this piece landed with you ❤️ Thanks, too, to my @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon group for your great feedback on the first draft!

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He’s pretty sure this is the most wonderful time of the year: open windows, fascinating smells from the outdoors, and his human woman repeatedly saying “Yankees,” which means it’s almost time to get snacks and watch tiny men run around in circles on TV. #caturday

A tuxedo cat sits on a multicolored blanket beside an open window. Outside, the sun is shining and the sky is blue. The cat looks over his shoulder at the photographer. He seems pleased with himself.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today in The Ekphrastic Review: prose and poetry responses to Madelyn Roldan’s painting Easy Way Out, including this one from me. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

How Medical Professionals Have Characterized My Left Ovary

Shy,
but in fairness, I too would hide
from ultrasound technicians if I had the chance.

Unremarkable,
which was in itself remarkable:
a healthy, normal ovary, surrounded
yet untouched by endometriosis.

Textbook, actually,
but I’ve seen the photo from the surgery,
and I wouldn’t shut it away inside a textbook.
It belongs on the cover of a magazine,
an ovarian supermodel, radiant and flawless.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She’s cozying up to me, but it’s unclear whether she wants to snuggle with me or to steal my Sharpies.

Three of a dilute tortoiseshell cat’s paws are visible, outstretched toward three Sharpie markers.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve also been a PTV volunteer for years. It takes a few minutes, can be done at any time of day, and gets voters’ attention. (How often do people receive handwritten mail these days?) I especially enjoy volunteering for special elections, where a small increase in turnout makes a difference.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wore a Yankees jersey today, and a student walked into my classroom in a Red Sox jersey. Him: OH, NO! Me: So we’re going to have beef, I see. What’s your story? Him: Most of my family lives in Boston. Me: I grew up in New York. Him: Well, you could have been a Mets fan. Me: EW! No, I could NOT!!!!!

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How I’ve been greeted upon my return from work the last couple of days 😻

A dilute tortoiseshell cat naps with her head leaning on her human’s forearm. She is also using a pink mouse pad as a body pillow.

A tuxedo cat is stretched out on his side on a gray and blue area rug with his white neck and belly fur exposed. He is in the middle of a happy roll.

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Come one, come all!

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Submission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congrats, Linda! You’ve been on a roll!

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

Promptember is coming. October 11th to November 2nd. An in-between sort of almost month of prompts, webinars, open mics. And Promptember is free. Yep. Zero dolares. This one is on us. Stay tuned for details.

Against a prairie landscape with horses dancing through the sky, the text reads "another mysterious, in-between month of live write-ins, workshops and prompts"
PROMPTEMBER
October 11 - November 2 2026

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Someday, hopefully decades from now, I’ll be on my deathbed and burst out laughing, and what I’ll be thinking about is the time some dude referred to a novel’s plot and characters as RAW DATA 😂

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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

did someone say Halloween 🎃👻💀??!

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎉 We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships! buff.ly/DeTJ9EL 📚 Venka, 2026 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Telugu) 📚 Cynthia Shin (Korean) 📚 @hammadrind.bsky.social (Urdu, Panjabi, Welsh, Persian, Arabic) 📚 Naomi Harris (Hittite) 📚 Piera Chen (Chinese)

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Join us on September 19 at 6PM EST to celebrate Travis Flatt's flash collection, Such Late Night Radio. For more information: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/106713...

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@smokelong.bsky.social 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...

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📣 The 2027 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! tinyurl.com/2rc443mz This program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/09/2026

Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social! *full sub call language in alt text and replies*

Choose Your Own Constraint!

Hey hey, HADders! Lexi Rosen, here. While you can normally find me honking over at Silly Goose Press, Aaron and Crow were kind enough to pass over the keys to the skull pile this week and I can't wait to hand some out! I am SO excited to read your very best, RULE FOLLOWING pieces. I'm interested in constraints, patterns, syllables, rhyme schemes — whatever rules you've decided to follow are fair game for this call. Prose and poetry are welcome, but know that I prefer flash fiction and poems that can stick to one-ish page, and let's limit page counts to 3-5ish. That said, I care way more about the rules you're choosing to follow than the ones I lay out for you. Pretty please with a cherry on top let me know on a separate page (the last page, if possible!) of your attached submission document what rules and parameters you've decided to set (ie, I didn't use the letter E throughout the piece, I only wrote in haiku, every third word is an onomatopoeia, I had to use the word canteloup at least twice, etc), and feel free to include something about why, if you wanna — I love a craft choice and would love even more to hear about your process.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hard same. I have a better sense of how much time a task will take when it’s in my own handwriting. If I decide to erase something, I want to ERASE it, not highlight it and make it go poof.

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(pt.1) Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press) September 19 at 6pm EST feat. Coleman Bigelow Linda M. Bayley Elissa Field Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mario Aliberto Liz Rosen Beth Sherman This will be live on ZOOM . bottlecap.press/products/suc...

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Such Late Night Radio, by Travis Flatt

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

X-R-A-Y subs will be open tuesday 9/1, at 7pm central thanks xray.submittable.com/submit

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wrapping up @smokelong.bsky.social’s #ArchiveChallenge with @abbymanzella.bsky.social’s “Intervals on the Beach at Dusk” in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Love the tension between the narrator’s theoretical knowledge and the stress that inhibits her music-making. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/seven...

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Issue Seventeen — Tiny Molecules

Issue 17 - Autumn 2023

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Such effective use of the collective point of view in "The Last Friendly’s in Cattaraugus County" by Kristen Zory King in @tinymolecules.bsky.social! #ArchiveChallenge (also, now I wish I still lived near a Friendly’s) www.tinymolecules.com/issues/eight...

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was driving this afternoon behind a Kia Soul with a bumper sticker reading "CAUTION! Max Capacity 16 Clowns," and it delighted me.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A good day to remind everyone that Dolly loved books. She gave millions upon millions of books to children. Folks who want to ban books and cut funding to libraries and book-related programs? We’re coming for you in the name of Dolly.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy:

Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses
Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines
(I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience)
Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success
TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Continuing @smokelong.bsky.social's #ArchiveChallenge with "Postcard from a Sepulchre" by Janet Jiahui Wu in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. The short sentences reflect the narrator's exhaustion, yet they are packed with memorable detail. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/eight...

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eight — Tiny Molecules

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Loved the collision between the supernatural and the mundane in this @travisflatt.bsky.social micro! #ArchiveChallenge "Good Talk" in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

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twenty-one — Tiny Molecules

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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

love taking your sweet time developing fiction worlds? then save this evergreen list of 150 magazines that pay, don’t charge fees, and are always open for fiction submissions.

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I got to see it in a theater a few weeks ago, and it’s lovely!

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excited to get these folks together in March! See you in Chicago, friends! #AWP27

Screenshot from AWP website. Pedagogical Uses of Translation

This panel brings together five educators in secondary schools and higher education, all practicing literary translators, who use works in translation to model the craft of creative writing, foster close reading through reading multiple translations of the same text, and nurture language acquisition in the world language classroom. Panelists will share examples of class activities and discuss their text selection process for a wide range of educational environments.
Speaker(s):
Moderator: Laura Nagle Presenter: Aruni Kashyap Presenter: Calvin Olsen Presenter: Jamie Banks Presenter: Maja Teref

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thank you so much, Lori! ❤️🤰

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Such effective use of repetition in this micro, replicating the relentlessness of the gossip the narrators heard. #ArchiveChallenge “Four Doors Down, It Poured” by Jeanine Skowronski in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/nine#...

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Loved “Pluck” by @alexandrammatthews.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social, which both honors the narrator’s memory of what it’s like to be 13 and acknowledges how her mother experienced that time in their lives. #ArchiveChallenge www.tinymolecules.com/issues/fifte...

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Issue Fifteen - Spring 2023 — Tiny Molecules

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Excited to see my people this fall!

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Loved “Revolution” by @mattleibel.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social: a micro in which the ending clarifies the beginning and practically demands a second reread. #ArchiveChallenge www.tinymolecules.com/issues/nine#...

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