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The Vice President of the United States is a fascist.

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

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.

Our competitions always introduce us to new talent. Chi Pham's story "Man Spelt Backwards" is the author's first published story. We are THRILLED to be the first. And we have nominated the story for PEN America's Robert J. Dau Short Story Award for Emerging Writers. @seaheye.bsky.social‬

thank you :))) so honored to have placed alongside your STUNNING flash !!

AAAA haha thank you :) i have done nothing but read and fall deeper in love with flash in those 4 years and am so glad that you enjoyed my piece !

you are far too kind :)) and i am beyond lucky that you guys saw something worth recognizing in my piece!

The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Winners - SmokeLong Quarterly I know I probably say this every year, but narrowing down the top 25 entries to the group of stories we’d eventually end up publishing was such a difficult task. Once an entry reached the second stage...

The results are in! The winners of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025 are...
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