Adele Gallogly

Thanks for this opportunity, Matt!

Celebrating @tracieadams.bsky.social, a SmokeLong Quarterly workshop mate whose detailed feedback has taught me so much about flash — especially about revising with a focus on the emotional layers of characters.

A three-panel meme of Pingu, the stop-motion penguin, angrily gluing a pink heart to some glitter and sliding it into an envelope. The text reads " Mr Darcy writing his letter to Lizzy"

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CRAFT Dialogue Challenge 2025 - CRAFT CRAFT 2025 Dialogue Challenge May 22 – June 1, 2025 $500 Awarded Thank you to all who submitted work to the CRAFT 2025 Dialogue Challenge. We’re delighted to publish the winner in October 2025. Congra...

A lovely surprise to be longlisted in this unique dialogue-only flash story contest from CRAFT literary magazine. (Another case of submitting a story originally sparked in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop.) Congrats to the winners! www.craftliterary.com/craft-dialog...

Thank you, @100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my tiny sugary-but-not-sweet tale

YouTube video by SmokeLong Quarterly SLQ Master Series - Aimee Bender

You weren't able to join us yesterday for our interview and reading with Aimee Bender, our first Master Series guest? You can now watch the interview on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/DH71B3XUIx0?...

Those all sound so great! It’s a mix of scheduling and finances, but I’m hopeful about making something work later this year or early next. I’ve heard wonderful things, especially from fellow SmokeLong Fitness workshoppers.

I watched the “Unique Selling Points” workshop last week and really enjoyed it. I hope to find a way to do a live workshop one day, but I’m so thankful (esp. as a writer still so fresh to flash) to have these recorded options from an expert in the form. Thanks, Matt!

That’s great! In my experience, audio versions of flash fiction collections/books can be hard to find. Looking forward to this one.

What a beautiful issue! I purchased the digital copy and can’t wait to dig in. The file size was just a bit too big to be sent to my Kindle, so not sure if that’s adjustable for future — but it also looks lovely on my phone/laptop.

Sea Lake by Sandrina Dorigo — Five Minutes Out on the salt flats, I imagine being at the bottom of whatever sea was once here, megalodon and ribbons of sea grass above.

"In my eardrums waves thrum, roaring against the silence."

This brilliant piece of writing by @sandrinado.bsky.social in @fiveminutelit.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.fiveminutelit.com/sea-lake

Thanks to haikuniverse for sharing this little piece, inspired by my daughter’s harder/younger season of handling her dad working nights. haikuniverse.com

morning road trip clouds 🤍

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“Messaging” by @adelegallogly.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writing #flashfiction

Happy to be the daily story on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social for the second time. www.paragraphplanet.com

Great advice here. Since I started writing flash fiction, my phone and e-ink tablet have been especially helpful as I write & revise while busy with summer kid activities, traveling, etc. Scribbling “morning pages” first thing has been a good practice, too (and I’m not at all a morning person!) 🥱 ✍️

The Archive Challenge Winner! - SmokeLong Quarterly A few weeks ago I had a thought: How can we encourage flash writer-readers to deep-dive into the archives of online journals who’ve published flash for more than 10 years? So I decided to host a new c...

A winner of The Archive Challenge has been chosen randomly from the 27 writer-readers who finished the challenge posting daily for 2 weeks! Congratulations to Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social ! www.smokelong.com/the-archive-...

Last day of this wonderful challenge! Day 14 “To Brown Duck, Potters’ Mill Pond, Brynby Green, Lincolnshire LN12 0BX” by Philippa Bowe & Karen Walker—a delightful co-written flash about a unique correspondence. I read it on a cottage morning 🦆📬
newflashfiction.com/to-brown-duck/

@nffr.bsky.social

Loved reading this, Emily. And thanks for sharing your rejection journey, too. As a newbie to the submissions roller coaster it’s easy to feel like it never happens to anyone else, especially those at the top of their form. 🙃 Thankful for your work and wishing you the best with the next responses!

So great! A pleasure to read and share your work.

Mom’s new boyfriend is a liver fluke by Cole Beauchamp | Issue #33 He attached quickly (can I buy you a drink, let's hook up, sure I’ll meet your kid), slid into our house unnoticed (toothbrush here, pair of socks there) and two months on, here we are, host and Fasio...

Day 13 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge “Mom’s new boyfriend is a liver fluke” by Cole Beauchamp, visceral & amusing:

“This flat worm sucks nutrients from our fridge, sprawls on the sofa, pink and leaf-shaped, fattening and excreting eggs…”
newflashfiction.com/liver/

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She’s wonderful. I can’t wait to start in on one of her collections.

Tapped by Kim Magowan A week before Ruth’s daughter heads to college, she crawls into Ruth’s bed in the middle of the night. Shivering, Hannah describes her nightmare.

Day 12 @smokelong.bsky.social #archivechallenge “Tapped” by Kim Magowan, a flash story about a mother grappling with grief & change.

🌳 “It’s Ruth who should feel like a tree: rooted in San Francisco, alone. Her family one by one has left her.” 🌳
newflashfiction.com/kim-magowan/

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Let's Play Ball, Cecil by Dan Crawley A young boy entered the sunken ball court through the skinny entrance not far from the ancient pueblo ruins.

Day 11 @smokelong.bsky.social's #archivechallenge “Let’s Play Ball, Cecil” by Dan Crawley, a road trip story from his excellent novella-in-flash

“The boy leaned way over, shading the man’s tanned face covered in sweat, which now held a fixed grin”
newflashfiction.com/dan-crawley

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The Fortune You Seek Lies in a Different Cookie by Clare MacQueen Monday evenings, Ella takes the chopsticks to their favorite restaurant, orders her usual sweet and sour chicken.

Day 10 of @smokelong.bsky.social's flash journal #archivechallenge - “The Fortune You Seek Lies in a Different Cookie by Clare MacQueen,” a restless story of searching, searching, searching...

“Perhaps cookies can tell her why she’s alone.”

newflashfiction.com/clare-macque...

@nffr.bsky.social

Exactly! Well said. We’re working on “dialogue that counts” in the Smokelong Workshop right now, and this is definitely an example I’ll bookmark to return to/learn from.

Day 9 of @smokelong.bsky.social's #archivechallenge - “A Kiss At Last” by G.L. Morrison, a dialogue-heavy story about last kisses and Oreos and love, layered w/ tension & meaning:

"How can a moment be so ridiculous and serious at the same time?"
newflashfiction.com/g-l-morrison/

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Made time for this short,
tender novel over lunch today. Aiming to read a variety of books this summer, from microfiction to lengthy sagas.

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