SmokeLong Quarterly

SmokeLong Quarterly is a quarterly online literary magazine which publishes flash fiction and interviews with its authors. Its first issue was published on September 15, 2003. Over the course of its first twenty-four issues, SmokeLong has published 343 authors
Since 2007, SmokeLong has also provided the Kathy Fish Fellowship, an annual award of $500.00 to one writer previously unpublished in the magazine. Winners to date were Beth Thomas (2007), Stefanie Freele (2008), and Tara Laskowski (2009).
Authors
These include:
* Steve Almond
* Mark Budman
* Dan Chaon
* Stuart Dybek
* Ben Ehrenreich
* Pia Z Ehrhardt
* Stephen Elliott
* Sherrie Flick
* Larry Fondation
* Natalie Goldberg
* Tod Goldberg
* Liesl Jobson
* Roy Kesey
* W.P. Kinsella
* Dorianne Laux
* Peter Mehlman
* Bruce Holland Rogers
* Melanie Rae Thon
* Ray Vukcevich
* Katharine Weber
Notable stories
*No One Left to Care About the Fat Man by Rusty Barnes included in Breaking it Down (ISBN 1934513032)
*Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon included in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (ISBN 0982084005)
*The Arrival by Nathan Leslie included in Reverse Negative (ISBN 0977616282)
*Bounty by Tricia Louvar included in Best of the Web 2009 (ISBN 0981589979)
*The Attraction of Asphalt by Stefani Nellen included in Best of the Web 2008 (ISBN 0979312345)
*Miracle by Chad Simpson included in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (ISBN 0982084005)
*The Sky Is a Well by Claudia Smith included in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (ISBN 0978984838)
*Flights by Jim Tomlinson included in Things Kept, Things Left Behind (ISBN 0877459916)
Awards
Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2004
:Instructions for a Son upon Finding Something of his Father's by Robert S. Jersak, Not the Real Jesus Christ by Bob Thurber
Million Writers Award Notable Story 2008
:Lobster Girl by Alicia Gifford
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2008
:Holiday Inn by Kim Chinquee, Starfish by Jeff Landon, Tiny Bones by Kuzhali Manickavel, Red Brick by Darlin' Neal, Prow by Claudia Smith, Night Birds by Craig Terlson
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2009
:Disease Relics by Blake Butler, The Sway of Trains by Lydia Copeland, Tenderoni by Kathy Fish, The Last Stop by Jenny Halper, Cadet by Tiff Holland, Tuesday by Lindsay Hunter, Slam by Liesl Jobson, Fatback by Jeff Landon, Medicinal by Girija Tropp, Real Estate by Bonnie ZoBell
Stories first published in SmokeLong have also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
 
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