When Margo takes off her shirt, we all know what’s coming. Margo, who we all say has the best tits in the senior class, has a shot of tequila in one hand and the shirt in the other. It’s a flimsy litt...

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

Discover 10 days of talks, panels, and performances that celebrate stories in every form. Filter by language, genre, or programme type \u2013 and make the most of your SG Culture Pass with eligible ev...

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

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...

This is a very tightly controlled yet evocative story. Did you find it difficult to keep the word count so low, or does it come more easily to you? Actually, it comes easily to me as I’m primarily a p...

This week, students from Professor Abby Manzella’s Flash Non/Fiction Workshop at Truman State University read our submission queue. The students are Regan Bohanan, Cristyn Chauvenne, John Chua, LJ Joh...

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

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...

To love and be loved by a doll was an immeasurable gift, and Eddie was twice blessed. He had been sleeping with Simone here and there, a congenial sort of fling, for about a year.  She wasn’t one to l...

For one night only, we dare the wildness of Evan’s room and smoke the last of his weed while listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Uprising on repeat, my head against the speaker, Sam’s head on my ...

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...

Alt: Three fluffy cats looking through a window overlooking the sea. A gentle breeze is tickling the curtains.

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

For one night only, we dare the wildness of Evan’s room and smoke the last of his weed while listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Uprising on repeat, my head against the speaker, Sam’s head on my ...

We’re doing it again! Promptember, an in-between almost month squished into the crannies of autumn, is an intense addition to the mensal calendar. It’s special. During the almost month of Promptember,...

We’re doing it again! Promptember, an in-between almost month squished into the crannies of autumn, is an intense addition to the mensal calendar. It’s special. During the almost month of Promptember,...

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...

My therapist Leo says, “So how are the warts?” and I look down at my hand, the three little discs of salicylic acid on my pinky and ring finger, and tell him the medicine’s working, they’re slowly mel...