Kelly Pedro

Kelly Pedro

@kellypedro.bsky.social

Winner TWUC '26 Short Prose, CRAFT '24 Flash prizes • Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Award, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Moon City Review, TLR, FracturedLit, The Fiddlehead+ • Associate Flash Editor jmww

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Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

Still floored by this honour. Thank you to The Writers' Union of Canada, jurors & readers! Like many of my stories, this winning story started in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop 3 years ago! It's not flash anymore. Read the press release here: writersunion.ca/news/kelly-p...

writersunion.caKelly Pedro’s “Terceira Rift” Wins $2,500 Prize — The Writers’ Union of Canada’s 33rd Annual Short Prose Competition | The Writers' Union of Canada
The New Quarterly@thenewquarterly.bsky.social

TNQ would like to extend our sincere congratulations to the amazing @kellypedro.bsky.social who has won the 33rd Annual Short Prose Competition, awarded by the Writers' Union of Canada. 📝 Congrats again, Kelly! 🥰 #CanadianWriters #LitMagLife #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit

Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

I can't say enough about what an incredible experience the SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship is. Reach out if you have questions!

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social

PSAs: We are now reading general submissions for the March issue. We are also reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest until Nov 15 and The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship applications until Dec 15. Our next free-submissions window opens Nov 16.

Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

Dawn is the best and has been a guest speaker in my Writing Flash Narratives class. No surprise the students adored her. Check out what she's looking for as a submissions editor at SmokeLong Quarterly and check out all of insights from other sub editors too. A gold mine of info for flash writers.

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social

What do our submissions editors look for in a story? We're running an interview series to introduce you to our team. Next up is the amazing Dawn Miller! And of course her pooch, Maizie! @dawnwriter.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/meet-our-sub...

smokelong.comMeet Our Submissions Editors – Dawn Miller - SmokeLong QuarterlyOver the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

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Dawn Miller 🇨🇦
@dawnwriter.bsky.social

When I joined @smokelong.bsky.social Summer workshops a number of years ago, I was hooked right from the start. SmokeLong workshops are a fantastic way to hone your craft! Amazing community and learning. I’m so honoured to be part of the submissions team now ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #flashlit #flash #writing #writer

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social

What do our submissions editors look for in a story? We're running an interview series to introduce you to our team. Next up is the amazing Dawn Miller! And of course her pooch, Maizie! @dawnwriter.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/meet-our-sub...

smokelong.comMeet Our Submissions Editors – Dawn Miller - SmokeLong QuarterlyOver the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

Thinking about starting SmokeLong Fitness in October? You can register now annually or monthly. SmokeLong Fitness has made flash writers 83% more adorable since 2022, and we are absolutely not a cult. #notacult www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

smokelong.comSmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong QuarterlyIn September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

We'll be sending out the invitation to join the workshop site on August 27th. Come write with us! Fitness is not a cult no matter what people say. #kumbaya www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

smokelong.comSmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong QuarterlyIn September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

This is a must-attend for anyone leading workshops or teaching creative writing.

Sarah Fawn Montgomery@sfmontgomery.bsky.social

I’m partnering up with @smokelong.bsky.social on Saturday, September 12 at 10 am ET for an online workshop on discovering disabled forms and structures! We’ll discuss the ableist writing workshop and ways disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent experiences can guide our writing.

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

PSA: We are going to start reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest on August 1st! Previously published and unpublished micros 250 words or fewer, fiction, CNF, micros that lean poetic considered. Opens Aug 1st, closes Nov 15. Grand prize $1000! Details soon!

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

"I wanted death to be a beautiful, positive surprise, because why not?" Mamie Willoughby Pound is our featured author this week. Read Amy Marques' interview with the author at SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

smokelong.comSmoke Signals with Mamie Willoughby Pound - SmokeLong QuarterlyI love the title! It has length (which can be a fun twist in flash or micros) and humor. It sets a stage for a story where there could be multiple meanings and layers of meaning and interpretation. Wo...

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

"Appropriated trauma" - Murray Dunsmore is our featured author this week. Read Chey Dugan's interview with the author at SmokeLong, and then don't miss "Sutures," which was a finalist in The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

smokelong.comSmoke Signals with Murray Dunsmore - SmokeLong Quarterly“Everyone always eventually leaves”—a belief the narrator holds that prevents him from forming deep connections. Though not an experience unique to him, his fear brings about a dissociative nature. Wh...
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

"‘What about Sara?’ I remembered to ask one afternoon. ‘Doesn’t she mind you being gone so long?’ His whole face changed, then, and I thought that once he looked at me like that." So much packed into this micro by @laurabesley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2026/06/29/m...

fictivedream.comMicrofiction #63In those final days by Laura Besley it was my ex-husband who cared for me. I like to think he did it for the children’s sake and not for some sort of praise or morbid fascination. (In our final day…

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Laura Besley
@laurabesley.bsky.social

'After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a mannequin.' Tender & propulsive piece by @kellypedro.bsky.social #flashfiction It Doesn’t Budge citronreview.com/2026/06/30/i...

citronreview.comIt Doesn’t Budgeby Kelly Pedro   After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a manne…
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

I have loved and admired @thecitronreview.bsky.social for years and so I'm absolutely delighted to find my flash in its latest issue! Like so much of my flash, this story started in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop (write about an object for sale on FB Marketplace) citronreview.com/2026/06/30/i...

citronreview.comIt Doesn’t Budgeby Kelly Pedro   After Pa dies, Uncle Benny shows me the storage locker and homemade arm-wrestling machine: An apple-peeler rigged with a spongy arm that looks like it once belonged to a manne…

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

Writers in Europe! Our EIC will be leading a workshop on bending time in flash. And Madrid is the best.

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social

Tickets for this are dwindling--don't miss out! In addition to the speakers below, we'll be joined by @christopherallen.bsky.social and @anamariacaballero.bsky.social Our programme is full of exploration, collaboration and of course, excellent food and wine 🍇 Join us!

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SmokeLong Quarterly
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Our current and previous workshop participants have recently reported almost 30 publications! Help us celebrate them. They're talented AND adorable. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

smokelong.comThe SmokeLong Workshop Celebration – May/June 2026 - SmokeLong QuarterlyEach month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

"The pamphlet said the cranes had been landing in this area for thousands of years. She tried to imagine this place that long ago." Gorgeous work by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...

flash-frog.comMigration of the Sandhill Cranes by Lisa ThorntonThe North Platte River was nearly dry, long sand banks exposed. She watched a guy in a Funyuns T-shirt eating Cheetos gas up his Penske. Passing a semi, her husband pointed at the words Isaiah 50:3…
Kelly Pedro
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"this sobbing three-year-old sitting on top of a pile of Monopoly money as tall as a house, who can’t bear holding this hundred dollar bill because it means he’s not holding that hundred dollar bill." Read @sagetyrtle.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Let’s Read This Picture Book by Sage TyrtleSkip forward five pages. Skip past the toddlers with the rubber knives and toddlers with the cardboard handcuffs and the toddlers in their severe uniforms.

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Matt Kendrick
@mattkendrick.bsky.social

Such a useful resource - thanks Shome. I may even find the energy / time / will / desire to send out a submission at some point in June... ... or maybe not 🙃 And to add to this, the @welkinpress.bsky.social will be open for entries to the new genre prize! 🥳🥳 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

mattkendrick.co.ukThe Welkin Genre PrizeA competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose. There is a whole universe...
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Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

My adult neighbour is learning to ride a bike on our street and it's taking everything I have not to stop marking assignments in the yard and run after them cheering "Go! Go! You got this!" Never stop learning new things.

Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

I've decided that when I'm grading student assignments, I need to be surrounded by candy. I've also decided that this is completely reasonable. If you need me, I'll be at Bulk Barn.

Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

"I could get on anywhere. That was the rule. The other rule was don’t work night blues. So I worked night blues." Such a moody flash about commercial fishing by Rae Callahan in @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/night-blues-... #FlashintheFeed

xraylitmag.comNight Blues by Rae CallahanI had been told not to work night blues. There were about thirteen party boats lined up in Belmar then, and I loved every one of them. I had spent the summer with Garafano, scrubbing boats in port unt...
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

🌟 Mark your calendars! 🌟 JMWW is reopening flash submissions June 1! We cap at 40 submissions/reading period so don't delay. I'd love to see (or not "see" since we read anonymously 😅) your work in the queue.

JMWW Journal@jmwwjournal.bsky.social

Submit your work here! jmww.submittable.com/Submit

jmww.submittable.comJMWW Submission Managerjmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, book reviews, and other miscellany weekly. We are happy you found us!We want to see your work, but don't be all stalke...

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

We have a shortlist! Please help us celebrate the top 23 titles on The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026 shortlist! Anonymous judging is ongoing. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

smokelong.comThe SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction — The Shortlist! - SmokeLong QuarterlyThank you to everyone who sent in work for our judges to consider this year. Narrowing down the field from 1200 entries to the list of 23 stories below has been a grand task for our 16 judges, an inte...

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SmokeLong Quarterly
@smokelong.bsky.social

Summer is coming! Book by May 23rd. Bring a friend for no extra dollars. This year A SmokeLong Summer is longer and fuller than ever. Did we say you need to book by May 23rd? Yes, we did. www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

smokelong.comA SmokeLong Summer 26 - SmokeLong QuarterlyA SmokeLong Summer 26 is closer than you think. This year we’re starting early and staying late. The summer just got longer. As always, at the heart of A SmokeLong Summer is our peer-review workshop i...
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

"Mounds of clothes grow taller in the basket while she reads Ms. magazines. I find her in the pantry reading The Feminine Mystique, the pages dog-eared in perfect triangles while the potatoes in the oven burn." Gorgeous writing by @dawnwriter.bsky.social by @jmwwjournal.bsky.social shorturl.at/7Rt0O

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Inside Out by Dawn Miller“Won’t they just wrinkle while we sleep?” I ask, and my mother gives me a sad look that scoops out my heart.

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Shantell Powell
@shanmonster.bsky.social

My goretastic story The Butcher of Mazdin has been shared online by @sluggerfiction.bsky.social I think of it as set in a Conan-style world, but it features a disabled pauper instead of a beefcake barbarian. sluggerfiction.com/the-butcher-...

sluggerfiction.comThe Butcher of Mazdin by Shantell PowellArt by Kit Carter The Butcher of Mazdin towers high atop his pedestal, a bronze monument huge enough to empty all the mines in the region. Every seven years, we throng to his feet in the heat of th…
Kelly Pedro
@kellypedro.bsky.social

"The Photographer likes to go off track and meet the locals, especially if their kids are cute and their clothes are colourful." Read "Full-Spectrum Climate Resistance" by @quickasaflash.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/f...

jmwwblog.wordpress.comFlash Fiction: Full-Spectrum Climate Resilience by Gill O’HalloranToday’s sea-cucumbers fetched little, will barely cover my needs, never mind my family’s needs. The sea’s become a desert, but we cannot sell or eat sand.