I have a new micro up at Ghost Parachute for their 9th anniversary! Amazing lineup in the full issue. 🪂
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Smoke Signals with Aimee Bender - SmokeLong Quarterly
You have three threads woven together here—the story of your father, of the taxed sump pump, and of Joni Mitchell making music—and it’s all seamless and brilliant. Are you on the lookout for events li...
"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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Noodle moon
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👉🏻This Friday, September 26! 7pm at La Roche University I’ll read from and discuss my memoir-in-essays, HOMING: INSTINCTS OF A RUSTBELT FEMINIST - free - fun 🏠 @univnebpress.bsky.social #booksky #cnf #essays #pittsburgh #supportartists
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I’m reading next Tuesday, September 23, at Upper St. Clair Township Library! Free, fun. 🐻 🏠 6:30 #essays #flashfiction #booksky
Registration: twpusc.libcal.com/event/153306...
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List of award nominations with purple Monarch butterfly logo top centre and SmokeLong Quarterly logo top left. Text: Monarch Queer Literary Awards Nominations: Fiction: Man Spelt Backwards by Chi Pham; People of Color Monologue by Sam Mainz. Non-fiction: strangers breathe air into you by jj peña. Hybrid: Yes by Allison Field Bell; Best Western by C Ray Borck.
Announcing our nominations for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @seaheye.bsky.social, Sam Mainz, @jjpena.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, and C Ray Borck
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✨ New SmokeLong issue! We've got CNF by AIMEE BENDER and an incredible assortment of flash writers!! ✨
15.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
PSA! We're reading for the March issue now. Our September issue goes live on Monday.
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🎉
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Cover Reveal! September 15th! Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! Ten killer flash by ten amazing writers. And we're thrilled to feature new CNF by Aimee Bender, our first featured author in the SmokeLong Master Series. Cover art by Mario Loprete.
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Thank you for posting about Homing! 🩷
05.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Homing’s one-year birthday! 🎂 Thanks to everyone who has supported this collection, especially @univnebpress.bsky.social 🎉 #essays #cnf #memoir #rustbelt #booksky #americanlivesseries #bookbirthday
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Thursday! (Tomorrow!) 8pm
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PSA! Our Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller call ends at midnight ET tonight (still looking for that creepy story that's amazing at the line level), our free-submissions window opens tomorrow, we'll be announcing the winners of our summer workshop competitions soon, and we think you're pretty.
15.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight! Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel. Free but registration is required. Reading from the essay collection and the new story collection. Fun! #booksky #essays #flashfiction 🐻🩷 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social
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Today! There's still time to request the Zoom link. www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...
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Me too!
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Congratulations and much success to our Best of the Net Nominees!
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It was so tasty 🩷
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This biscuit sandwich (is mine)
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Columbus, Ohians!—I’ll be reading from I Have Not Considered Consequences at Gramercy Books on August 7, in discussion with OSU’s Jim Phelan - 7pm - Free but registration is required, link below 🐻🩷 - Hope to see you there! #booksky @autumnhousepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/authoredit...
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#truth
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This vat of homemade mac n cheese
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Tonight!
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Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
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Author of THE MISSION 🛰️ and THE OUTSIDE CATS 🇦🇶 (forthcoming). Words for the New Yorker, &c. Ask me how to get involved in animal rescue. 🔗 https://davidwbrown.com 📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere.
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