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We recommend querying after the time the market suggests to query. ... SmokeLong Quarterly – publishes flash fiction quarterly online. We might even like it if Smokelong doesn't. Terri Muuss (Write to Save Someone) has had poetry appear in numerous journals including Paterson Literary Review, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Apercus Quarterly, Atticus Review, Stirring, Long Island Quarterly, and Red River Review. A compelling array of short stories presents sixty tales, each under two thousand words, that represent a variety of genres and perspectives in works by Tobias Wolff, Sam Shepard, Aimee Bender, Jorge Luis Arzola, and other notable writers ... and Some cool perks – they find original artwork to go with your story and include author interviews in each issue. Dear Arthur, Thank you for your submission of “afterglow” to SmokeLong Quarterly. /temz/ Review – publishes fiction (flash, short and long-form up to 10,000 words) and poetry (submit up to 8 pieces) quarterly online. About smokelong Our Mission: SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether writtenwidely published authors, or those new to the craft. ACCEPTED WORKS. Nancy, Gay and Brandon will be guest editing for SLQ for the next three weeks, so treat them kindly. We gave the story careful consideration, and though we are not accepting it for publication, we hope you find a better fit for it elsewhere. ... SmokeLong Quarterly – publishes flash fiction quarterly online. There are, but I can’t talk about them yet. ), I’m running the workshop that started it all (beginning in 2013!) Class limit: 12. Send up to four poems at a time. Description. They pay $25 per story upon publication. Runner-Up, 2016 Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split Lip Press/Judge Sara Lippmann The Offing is a home for new and emerging writers. Also publishes a weekly newsletter. Shannon McLeod’s debut novella, Whimsy (174 pages; Long Day Press), was released on March 23. Email. 10-day response time. 2-day acceptance from Starward Shadows Quarterly on August 5. She is the author of Over Exposed (JB Stillwater, 2013) and the one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll. Sign In. The Green-Eyed Monster: Jealousy in the Time of Quarantine by Nancy Stohlman guesting on Jane Friedman. KIM MAGOWAN lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. Flash Fiction Online. What’s next for you and Smokelong? Questions: kkulpa@cleavermagazine.com. Time is of the essence in Jemimah Wei’s flash fiction piece, “In Just Thirty Minutes.”. This guide is a must for anyone in the field of short fiction who teaches, writes, and is interested in its genesis and practice. The most common submission tip paid: USD $4.00. Ekphrastic Challenge Responses: Istvan Farkas. McLeod’s narrative threads a series of distinct scenes that measure her main character’s capacity No. Novelette 7,500 – 15,000. SOLD OUT–Stay tuned for future workshops! Angry Nights is about a world where betrayal can become a part of the structure of everyday experience. Found inside"Hot damn, this is a powerhouse debut. Leigh Camacho Rourks deserves a hallowed space on the shelf between Flannery O'Connor and Donald Ray Pollock. Luis Jaramillo wrote The Doctor’s Wife in response to a friend’s request for a poem. About smokelong Our Mission: SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether writtenwidely published authors, or those new to the craft. Her fiction has been published in Atticus Review, Cleaver, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart, Smokelong Quarterly, … We accept submissions through submittable—submit HERE. This fall we are hosting our first annual prize for comedy in flash! 92. News from SmokeLong Contributors and Staff: Foust’s story collection Sins of Omission will be released this May (2015) by Tidal Press. The statistics in this section are compiled from submission reports sent to us through our submission tracker. Wigleaf: (very) short fiction Submission Statistics. Response Time. I find this uneven balance when I am submitting work where I’ve either spent a lot of time reading a journal and realized that there’s no way my work stacks up. In Whiskey, Etc., it's the particulars that draw you closer-the stained coffee cups, curled-up dogs, wood-burning stoves and canoes snug in their sheds-to a muddled loneliness housed behind crystalline windows. Like a tantalizing secret traded between strangers in an elevator. I'm also working on another essay inspired by Smokelong Quarterly's Flash in the Classroom essay series, about teaching Kara Vernor's Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song in my freshman comp classes.--Jess D. Taylor Reasonable response times (if a journal’s average response time was over 60 days, they didn’t make the cut). Novel > 40,000. (24.9 % of reports specified whether they gave a tip; of those, 47.9 % gave tips.) We gave your work careful consideration. Kirsten Casey is a California Poet in the Schools and the Poet Laureate of Nevada County. Dear Arthur, Thank you for your submission of ‘Dialing Islands’ to SmokeLong Quarterly. Found insideFrom a woman grappling with the end of her marriage to her porn addicted husband, to a retired Hell's Angel, to a heroin addicted escort getting a second chance at the high life, these stories explore a vast range of experiences, voices, ... SmokeLong Quarterly is my favourite literary magazine. 93. Good People, Cool Things Podcast: Flash Fiction and Jazz Lounge Metal with Nancy Stohlman. "Each of the stories in Ryan Werner's Shake Away These Constant Days ends with a sentence that's a fist to the ribs. The collection builds into repeated shots to the soft part of your guts, a beautiful pummeling. We try to respond with feedback within 14 days, and we would appreciate a brief note letting us know you received our message and feedback. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge of eighty-four of the world's best very short ... Rejection from SmokeLong Quarterly: open submissions. We try to respond with feedback within 14 days, and we would appreciate a brief note letting … Congratulations, Tara Campbell! Jon Chaiim McConnell was one of the founding Split Lip FAM members, so it's with sadness and admiration that we look back upon his tenure as Split Lip's first Fiction Editor. Sensitive and unruly, sincere and absurd, Stefanie Freele's Feeding Strays is a collection of fifty short stories, both slipstream and modern, about children, family, relationships, and oysters. I have rambled on at elegiac length about it being my Flash Fiction Holy Grail 420 times before… so I will simply add that being published in SmokeLong for a second time is a 2019 career highlight. 25. This is part of an intermittent series of interviews with the artists who illustrate the wonderful stories we publish. An awe at what can transpire in so few words. Consider the success of Every Day Fiction, Smokelong Quarterly, and Flash Fiction Online. Comstock Review. Submitting authors should wait for a response before submitting again; they do not accept multiple submissions. Poets & Writers Live is an initiative developed in response to interviews and discussions with writers from all over the country. It would also mean faster response time to writers (acceptance or rejection), and who doesn’t like that idea? Call for Magazine submissions accepting pieces of any genre. See if editors list an estimated response time on their website. There’s an allure to its brevity. Filter options: In fact, Smokelong was in competition as the standard name for flash fiction — fiction you can read during the length of a cigarette. SmokeLong Quarterly was established in 2003 by our founder Dave Clapper. By the end of Build Your Best Writing Life, you'll know how to harness the simple techniques that can help you win your inner creative battles, finish projects you can be proud to share with the world, and work with focus to turn your ... In the overwhelming majority of cases, you will receive a response through Submittable marked DECLINED, and the editors' comments will be included in the response. He writes about pro wrestling for Bleacher Report and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, daughter and dog. Found insideThrough their eyes we experience both the depths and heights of humanity: hate and discrimination, sacrifice and redemption. This is the third in Fondation's series of "LA Stories." SmokeLong Quarterly – publishes flash fiction quarterly online. Jaramillo compromised by writing a prose poem. Make us smile. We are dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Christopher Allen. Belonging . It may take a couple of months for a response. Response Timeline. This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. Will they take reprints? My great passion, perhaps even bigger than creating my own art or writing my prose poems and small stories, is to invite others into the paintings I love. SmokeLong Weekly for August 9, 2021: Eating Stale Biscuits in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean by Yume Kitasei. Artist Spotlight: Carrie Wells. It may be important to you how long magazines take to respond. Dark, enigmatic, and sometimes comic, the stories in Partners and Strangers unite intimate anxieties with public dangers. LAURA VAN DEN BERG is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, and the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction … Submit your flash fiction of 1,000 words or your piece of fiction or narrative nonfiction of up to 7,000 words. Published in DC and Las Vegas. I’ve always been enamored by flash fiction. She also earned the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Readers' Favorite International Bronze Medal for Supernatural Suspense, and is a Gothic Readers Book Club Award Winner in Outstanding Fiction. "When the sun was above the treeline, and the hunter returned to the cabin, they were ready for him. NATALIE TEAL MCALLISTER is a fiction writer by night, marketing director by day, based in Kansas City. She earned a BA in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She can be found on Twitter at @LoriSambolBrody and her website is lorisambolbrody.wordpress. Novella 15,000 – 40,000. SmokeLong Quarterly. Found insideFrom the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. While I’m actively working to not end the majority of my fiction in this way, this idea lends itself so well to flash. Found insideWise, tough, heart-breaking, funny, this compulsive love story is about facing your demons. Dear Arthur, Thank you for your submission of “The Price of Chivalry” to SmokeLong Quarterly. SmokeLong Quarterly accepts submissions year-round, and they usually respond to submissions within six weeks. Good People, Cool Things Podcast: Flash Fiction and Jazz Lounge Metal with Nancy Stohlman. Payment: A flat rate of $100 for flash-length stories; $200 for short fiction. Found inside'My name is Laddy Merridew. Fiction. As always, go by the guidelines of each particular publication. The slowest markets can take a year or more to hear back from. Yes, we want this. Disaffected suburbanite Henry Walker is on a one-man mission to clean up his town. But is he a popular hero or an enemy of the people? Background Noise charts a young man¿s descent from dreams of stardom to fantasies of revenge. Will they take multiple submissions? Tara Laskowski and Beth Thomas, senior eds. When the great wave breaks over the little town, Junko is lying flat on her futon, and so it pulls her and the futon through the window and out to sea, along with a complete English tea set and a tin of biscuits that grandma never ate. Matthew Barrett holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and his stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, River Teeth, The Minnesota Review, The Maine Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Wigleaf, among others.He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and son and teaches English at his undergraduate alma mater, … RESPONSE TIME. Found insideA new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro. All of the stories in this book are exceptionally short, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. Dear ---, Thank you for taking part in SmokeLong Quarterly's --- flash fiction competition. Found insideLightly, an impossibly good-looking star quarterback from an elite Virginia college, drags along an unlikely sidekick-the immensely unpopular and overweight Santana Montana-to a remote Costa Rican fishing village in search of a unifying ... Monday, September 13, 2010. Presents short stories that feature rural and working-class characters trying to cope with life in post-industrial America. A brief bio is highly recommended. SmokeLong Quarterly . Feral A hunter is overcome by a vengeful snake and bear. Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction Workshop July 27-31, 2020. Her short fiction has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Tin House Flash Fridays, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. They are not provided by the publication's editors/staff or by Duotrope's admins. Unflinching in the face of apocalypse and unblinking before the complicated gaze of parental love, Matt Bell's CATACLYSM BABY is a powerful chronicle of our last days, and of the tentative graces that might fill the hours of our dusk. It was a follow-up to an email that’d been sent the night prior, at 9PM; the sender had gotten my number from a mutual acquaintance and hoped I didn’t mind. The Fifth Di... presents science fiction, fantasy, and horror for your reading enjoyment. This issue includes an all-night dance marathon to live forever; an unusual customer complaint; stone dolls; and a machine whisperer. Her compelling short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Eunoia Review, and MoonPark Review, and she won an Honorable Mention from both SmokeLong Quarterly and Glimmer Train.Having graduated with an … Like the work of George Saunders crossed with Richard Linklater, NOT EVERYONE IS SPECIAL is a collection of slacker fabulist stories that are at once speculative, hilarious, and poignant. Authors of flash fiction may submit one story at a time, 1,000 words or fewer. Submissions. They've published the reader statistics for October over at Smokelong Quarterly and my story, Two minute silence, topped the list.I'm staggered and delighted. Found insideWith a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower brings to life the silent histories and harsh realities of those living on the margins. The matriarch dominates these award-winning stories in Lisa Blower’s debut collection. Rejection from SmokeLong Quarterly. View recent responses from this market. Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Estimated Response: 28 days Market Response Data. * 95. Yes. AFTERBURNA Workshop in the Art of Flash RevisionTaught by Cleaver Flash Editor Kathryn Kulpa. Smokelong Quarterly: An Interview with Nancy Stohlman by April Bradley com. Found insideNow Duncan distills his remarkable powers of observation into this unique collection of short stories and essays. We accept submissions through submittable—submit HERE. Over time, she became part of their routine, the landscape of their memory. They didn't take the essay, but that's okay because I enjoyed working on it and feel good about what I crafted. Shasta Grant is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home (Split Lip Press, 2017). She won the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest and the 2016 SmokeLong Quarterly Kathy Fish Fellowship. She has received residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project and was selected as a 2020 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow. Sign in with Facebook. This price does not include a back-and-forth with the editor. Smokelong Quarterly: An Interview with Nancy Stohlman by April Bradley The term "smoke-long" comes from the Chinese, who noted that reading a piece of flash takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette. While these stories did not make it into the [next] issue, the next story you write may slay us. Rattle conducts a monthly Ekphrastic Challenge in which you write a poem in response to a visual art/photography provided by the magazine. SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web. We pay $50/story, upon publication in the quarterly issue. ... SMOKELONG QUARTERLY. 2020 Fiction $25.99; 306 pages Simon & Schuster ISBN: 978-1-9821-3246-0 . The editors will try to make a decision within 14 days. We gave your work careful consideration. In “A Bee Story,” published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Nicole VanderLinden… Below, art editor Ashley Inguanta chats with Carrie Wells. Submissions. Thanks again for trusting us with your work. Best, Editors SmokeLong Quarterly … This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. - Artwork: Please query • Editorial Calendars: - Read year round - Simultaneous submissions allowed, if notified Please inform us immediately if your work has been accepted somewhere else for publication. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you will receive a response through Submittable marked DECLINED, and the editors' comments will be included in the response. Pay: $100-$200. Themes of family, home, memory and disconnectedness dance with a quiet power through these 42 short-short stories about people playing the cards life has dealt them the best they can. What I am saying is that this is a tour de force, a fait accompli. 12 August 2019. When we asked what Poets & Writers could do to support their writing practice, time and again writers expressed a desire for … Rejection from SmokeLong Quarterly. We encourage you to try us again--either for the [next] issue or in the future. The other day, I woke up to a text message from someone I’d never spoken to before. Going Short receives a starred Kirkus Review. Cole would still be blogging about trees if she could figure out the new wordpress format. 3-day form rejection from SmokeLong Quarterly on August 5. About smokelong Our Mission: SmokeLong Quarterly is dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web on a quarterly basis, whether writtenwidely published authors, or those new to the craft. Welcome Our New Staff Editors! 9. $200. Rejection from SmokeLong Quarterly. SmokeLong Quarterly ... 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