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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>The excellent flash fiction journal Smokelong
Quarterly have announced a new fellowship program for writers previously
unpublished in their pages – take a gander if you’re interested.
And if you like, I encourage you all to visit Smokelong.com – some very
work indeed is published there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>It seems that many awards in people's names are established
posthumously. We're ecstatic that we can recognize Kathy Fish while she's still
very much alive and kicking. As she stepped down as our Fiction Editor, we at
SmokeLong wanted to recognize Kathy's enormous contributions to the magazine
and to the writing community as a whole. In particular, Kathy has always been a
great champion of new writers and has exhibited an uncanny talent for finding
previously unpublished writers whose work just shines.<br>
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We want to foster that sort of commitment to new writers, and in that vein, we
created the Kathy Fish Fellowship. All writers previously unpublished in
SmokeLong Quarterly are eligible to apply. Following are the guidelines for
application and the terms of the award itself:<br>
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Application Guidelines<br>
1. Applications should be emailed to fellowship@smokelong.com.<br>
2. Applications should include five samples of your flash fiction (stories of a
thousand words or less). These samples may be unpublished or previously
published in venues other than SmokeLong. We'll be reading these to get
impressions of each applicant's writing. The writing samples should, as a
whole, best reflect your ability, style(s), etc. Show us who you are as a
writer through these samples.<br>
3. Applications should include a few paragraphs (under a thousand words total)
about what you hope to accomplish in the next year with your flash writing. Are
there specific elements you want to improve? A larger story you want to tell
through a series of flashes? Help us learn how we can help you realize your goals
should you win this award.<br>
4. Samples and paragraphs about goals, etc. should be included in the body of
the email, rather than as attachments.<br>
5. There is no application fee.<br>
6. Application deadline is December 20, 2008.<br>
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Fellowship Awards<br>
1. The winner of the 2009 Kathy Fish Fellowship will be considered a
"writer in residence" at SmokeLong for each of the four issues to be
published in 2009. Each issue will include one flash by the Fellowship winner.<br>
2. The winner of the Fellowship will receive $500.00, to be paid as follows:
$100.00 on announcement of the winner, and $100.00 upon publication of each of
the four issues in 2009.<br>
3. The winner will be announced January 20, 2009.<br>
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Again, this award is open to any writer not previously published in SmokeLong
Quarterly. It is not restricted to writing program students (as we are all, in
some way, students of writing), although we will certainly be distributing this
announcement to various writing programs. We also encourage teachers of writing
to pass this announcement along to their students.<br>
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We're looking forward to reading your applications, and we want to once again
extend our deepest gratitude to Kathy for all she's done for SmokeLong and for
writers of flash fiction. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Kath.<br>
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Previous Fish Fellows<br>
2007: Beth Thomas<br>
2008: Stefanie Freele<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Administrative Director</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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