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Margo A. Mertz

@MargoMertz

I write short. There, I said it.

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Must read.

Introducing this week's featured author! Ani King's story "Family Night" won the fiction prize in the competition for A SmokeLong Summer 2024. You can read their craft interview here: smokelong.com/interviews/smo…

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Look what I got!!! @SherriFlick @ SmokeLong Quarterly Orders yours from WhiteWhale Bookstore whitewhalebookstore.com

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Send it in inside an electronic envelope

Got a story under 250 words? Fiction/CNF/hybrid/unpublished/previously published/new and shiny/forgotten in a sock drawer? #TheMikey is for you. All finalists published in December issue +$100. Top prize $1,000; 2nd $500; 3rd $300. Put it an electronic envelope and send it.

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I'll be teaching a webinar/class called What Flash Can Be? for @SmokeLong on September 28! I'd love to have you take part! smokelong.com/product/septem…


♥️#Smokelong I STARTED calling both my dog and husband Sweetie Pie the same year my husband found my lover’s cashmere sock🧦 I’d stuffed it in my coat pocket after tugging at it slithered like a snake down my pant leg 🦵 quotes in Sweetie Pie🦮

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Join us. Serious writers/riders only!

It’s sign-up time if you want to join SmokeLong Fitness in September! Here’s an effortlessly cool and stylish video to help convince you it’s absolutely the right choice: youtu.be/GgttFmw97tg?si…

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My all time favorite flash is Ethel and Harry on the Last day by Kathy Fish in Wildlife, read in SmokeLong Fitness. I love everything! The title, Ethel’s first line, all the domestic discord, and the frankfurter macaroni Jello surprise that no one touched. ♥️

I have many favorite pieces of flash, this one, in @SmokeLong is among the top smokelong.com/stories/lobste…



Calling all tiny gems...

#TheMikey 2024 is open! The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest is open to stories up to 250 words including those previously published. Closes November 15. (Our general submissions are also open). Send us your tiny gems. We can't wait to read them. smokelong.com/the-smokelong-…

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"I’m thirteen wearing my sister’s Happiness is a State of Mind t-shirt scooped from her bedroom floor, and a belt she’ll later wrap around my neck and threaten to tighten loop by loop." "Sibling Rivalry" by Kelly Pedro 100wordstory.org/sibling-rivalr… #flashfiction #100wordstory


Look what came in the mail on my birthday!

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You won’t want to miss it.

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Join us next week!

Reading this to get ready for @ShorterBC - NEXT TUESDAY! @RoseMetalPress has an ebook available so you can get a copy, read it, then come discuss it with us online! No need to wait for shipping - get it now and join us! rb.gy/6n33en

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Amazing. How does she do this? #kimmagowan

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this 90 min sesh Feb 3

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” —Kierkegaard Less than a month until this generative workshop with Sara Lippmann, weaving the past into the present in flash narratives. Sign up now! smokelong.com/product/februa…

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Congratulations to Suzy Eynon on Bluesky and The Bureau of Fearless Ideas (chosen by Suzy). They'll both receive $100! Happy holidays from SmokeLong!

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, competition/submission fees, membership, critiques, books—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like and share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose.

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