The Wix website manager always enjoins me, at the top of each new blog post, to 'write a catchy title', so I thought I would, for once....

It’s my editor’s choice week this week, and man, am I nerdily excited about it. We get anything from about 90-250 submissions a week, and...

SmokeLong is travelling! The SmokeLong on the Road blog series will be featuring video interviews with as many of its editors and...

It’s February, and I’ve finally accepted that the New Year is over and 2019 is definitely here. It’s been cold for approximately 400 days...

A few weeks ago someone posted in a Facebook writers’ group about a flash fiction competition which had published guidelines which...

What wonderful stories we received in this contest. There were nearly 300 entries. I read every one of them, most of them at least twice...

One of the happiest things that’s happened to me in approximately ever was being asked, this summer, to join the editorial team of the...

I’m honoured – and right now, a tiny bit emotional – to be judging the Autumn round of this terrific flash fiction competition with...

I’m so excited to be guest editing at my all-time favourite literary journal this week. SmokeLong has always been my go-to place to find...