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Text on a photographed background of mixed fruit. Text reads: Fruit queer literary journal. Submissions open for Writers of Colour, now until 30th November.

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️‍🌈

We’re now open for submissions until 30th November.

We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎

See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.

(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).

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Not saying I’m overtired but I just forgot I’d taken my contact lenses out and tried to remove my right cornea 👍

Around 25 days now!

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

University of Illinois Springfield students read the queue! - SmokeLong Quarterly This week, the students in Meg Cass’s “Creative Writing, Publishing & Community” class at the University of Illinois Springfield will be reading our submission queue! We asked their students a few que...

Meg Cass's "Creative Writing, Publishing & Community" class are reading the SmokeLong queue this week. If you're a creative writing teacher who'd love to give your students a look behind the curtain of a literary journal, let us know. www.smokelong.com/university-o...

Results Archive - Bridport Prize

Massive congratulations to contributor @jjpena.bsky.social for winning 2nd Prize in The Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, and to contributor @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, and SmokeLong Fitness Workshop member @adelegallogly.bsky.social, Highly Commended 🎉 bridportprize.org.uk/results/

Can’t he just take up fishing like a normal middle aged bloke

My 18-year-old Hoover finally died which means there's a NEW ONE arriving tomorrow and I'm currently listening to Babyshambles to prove I'm still rock'n'roll because I am unreasonably excited about this

We're holding a month-long write-in in the awkward time between November and December, and we'd love for you to join us. It's free. Tell your friends. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer...

Emerging writer? Write flash? Feeling isolated? We'd love to help you reach that next step. Apply for The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Bright yellow typewriter image on pale jade background. Text overlay:Join us for PROMPTEMBER, a mysterious intermonth happening between November and December of live, write-in, scribble-till-your- scribble-t hands-hurt events designed to light a fire under your writing life. Nov 8 to Dec 14. ABSOLUTELY FREE. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-promptember-2025. SmokeLong logo.

Join SmokeLong for a mysterious month between November and December we’ve christened Promptember! We’ll be meeting several times a week online with live write-in and open mic events at various times to suit participants around this spinning globe, 100% free.
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A person apparently sitting on the edge of a high-rise building, legs hanging over the side.

Here is the updated cover art for issue 89. The previous cover art (above) has been removed from the site out of respect for the literary journal who used it first a few weeks before our issue came out. We just became aware of this last night.

In October we're going to explore the collision of the odd and the ordinary, and on October 25th, you can join us and Sage Tyrtle for the 2-hour webinar "Speculative Fiction as Metaphor"! Or book SmokeLong Fitness today and get this webinar at no extra charge! www.smokelong.com/product/spec...

"We all need extremes to feel like ourselves." AJ O'Reilly, on their story "Code of the Mosh Pit". AJ is our featured author this week. Read their interview in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Was asked to look after two sausage dogs but I was lied to: these are clearly croissant dogs.

Not the sole reason, but a large part of why an increasing number of people see Reform as a "credible" party to vote for is because Starmer, and Labour in general, have done little else but tell people what a "credible force" with "legitimate concerns" Reform and it's supporters are. #r4today

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

Join SmokeLong for Promptember! This series of write-ins and open mics is free! Let's write! Donations will go to @sundresspub.bsky.social and their fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer...

Please tell all your emerging-writer friends! Deadline December 15th! The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship Jan-June 2026! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Organs - SmokeLong Quarterly Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs. You cannot safely empty them slowly, explains the doctor, as they hook hi...

This week's featured story is "Organs" by Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...

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...

Awesome to see the former ‘greatest country in the world’ is run by people who don’t know the difference between correlation and causation I mean I know these days that’s not the worst thing wrong with them but also when you’re *in charge of America* it is quite important

Awesome to see the former ‘greatest country in the world’ is run by people who don’t know the difference between correlation and causation I mean I know these days that’s not the worst thing wrong with them but also when you’re *in charge of America* it is quite important

(I mean, not just my job: everyone’s job, obvs, but this is MY ridiculous complaint space)

‘EU-wide data shows that sexual violence is committed by European nationals who are known to the woman…The problem is spelled M-E-N. Women’s rights organisations are rejecting your cynical weaponisation of our pain for your racist agenda. I have my voice. Don’t you DARE claim to represent it.’ AMEN

a man says it 's too much while standing in front of a window ALT: a man says it 's too much while standing in front of a window

Oh my GOD, there is so much brilliant writing in our journal submissions queue right now and it's basically making my job so freaking hard, you guys

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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