It’s not too late for the MSO, SLV, SLQ and others also to redress their wrongs
Big.
Public pressure works. Legal pressure works. Institutions must be defended (even from themselves). This is wonderful news.
Public pressure works. Legal pressure works. Institutions must be defended (even from themselves). This is wonderful news.
Sacked artist to be reinstated as Australia’s Venice representative
The stunning about-face was announced by the federal funding agency Creative Australia as it released the findings of a report into the high-profile sacking that sparked resignations, petitions and pr...
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July 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It’s not too late for the MSO, SLV, SLQ and others also to redress their wrongs
ABC
Creative Australia
SLV
SLQ
Bendigo Writers Fest
Sydney Theatre Co
MSO
NGA
Monash Museum of Art
Meanjin
Adelaide Writers Week…
Creative Australia
SLV
SLQ
Bendigo Writers Fest
Sydney Theatre Co
MSO
NGA
Monash Museum of Art
Meanjin
Adelaide Writers Week…
I wrote earlier about the catastrophic effects of pro-Israel pressure campaigns on our cultural institutions, but it seems no lessons have been learned
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
January 9, 2026 at 4:25 AM
ABC
Creative Australia
SLV
SLQ
Bendigo Writers Fest
Sydney Theatre Co
MSO
NGA
Monash Museum of Art
Meanjin
Adelaide Writers Week…
Creative Australia
SLV
SLQ
Bendigo Writers Fest
Sydney Theatre Co
MSO
NGA
Monash Museum of Art
Meanjin
Adelaide Writers Week…
The ABC spent millions defending this Lattouf case. The Creative Australia chair resigned. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had its worst financial result in a long time. The SLV and SLQ are still dealing with the fallout from their cowardice.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The ABC spent millions defending this Lattouf case. The Creative Australia chair resigned. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had its worst financial result in a long time. The SLV and SLQ are still dealing with the fallout from their cowardice.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
It doesn't pay to betray your own principles and values.
Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
August 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
In the interest of being transparent: SLQ are now honouring their original commitment to reimburse my travel expenses to Brisbane
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In the interest of being transparent: SLQ are now honouring their original commitment to reimburse my travel expenses to Brisbane
Saw this recipe on NYTimes www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQ-... and decide to give it a go! Chili crisp vinaigrette with my sister's @julieh325.bsky.social homegrown basil and tomatoes and my homemade dumplings! It was delicious! #DoctorsWhoCook #goodlunch 🍽️
August 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Saw this recipe on NYTimes www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQ-... and decide to give it a go! Chili crisp vinaigrette with my sister's @julieh325.bsky.social homegrown basil and tomatoes and my homemade dumplings! It was delicious! #DoctorsWhoCook #goodlunch 🍽️
this withdrawal of reimbursing agreed travel expenses is in addition to professional support, Fellowship & $15,000 that SLQ rescinded on - under direction from QLD government. Taken away without discussion, investigation, or appeals process. QLD gov & SLQ don't respect working class writers. 5/5
June 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this withdrawal of reimbursing agreed travel expenses is in addition to professional support, Fellowship & $15,000 that SLQ rescinded on - under direction from QLD government. Taken away without discussion, investigation, or appeals process. QLD gov & SLQ don't respect working class writers. 5/5
Do I look like a monster in this photo? Sure, but everyone else is beautiful. Hanging with the @smokelong.bsky.social crew after the SLQ reading. #AWP2025
March 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Do I look like a monster in this photo? Sure, but everyone else is beautiful. Hanging with the @smokelong.bsky.social crew after the SLQ reading. #AWP2025
Delighted to see SLQ stories by Ani King and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins in this year's Best Small Fictions @altcurrent.bsky.social, alongside SLQ Fellow Belinda Rowe, some of our editors, and a bunch of SmokeLong Fitness members (aka Trousers). Stories in this thread. Congratulations, everyone!
So many familiar names on the Best Small Fictions list this year! Congratulations to everyone, especially SmokeLong Fitness trousers! And congratulations to @aniking.bsky.social and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins for their SmokeLong stories! altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...
The Best Small Fictions
Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.
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May 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Delighted to see SLQ stories by Ani King and Ekpenyong Kosisochukwu Collins in this year's Best Small Fictions @altcurrent.bsky.social, alongside SLQ Fellow Belinda Rowe, some of our editors, and a bunch of SmokeLong Fitness members (aka Trousers). Stories in this thread. Congratulations, everyone!
So delighted to have a story on this list 😍 Thanks to all the workshop leaders for their tasks ❤️
SLQ Fitness is the best place for your writing!
SLQ Fitness is the best place for your writing!
Every year we offer free entry to our Workshop Prize for narratives started in a SmokeLong workshop and subsequently published anywhere. The prize is $500. The standard of work is wild. Today we have the long list for this year: www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon... 🎉⭐
The SmokeLong Workshop Prize – Long List - SmokeLong Quarterly
Since we began leading workshops in 2019, we have had thousands of workshop participants who’ve produced more than ten thousand drafts. We began collecting information on publications in 2023, and now...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:03 PM
So delighted to have a story on this list 😍 Thanks to all the workshop leaders for their tasks ❤️
SLQ Fitness is the best place for your writing!
SLQ Fitness is the best place for your writing!
BIG news about BIG stories from our friends over at SLQ! We love to see it. 🤩
Why ARE we, like, so obsessed with the whole 1,000 words thing? LA made us realise it’s high time we loosened up, right? Time for a new venture*. www.smokelong.com/stories/lett...
*Ventuuuure. Ventuuuuuuuuuure. Funny word.
*Ventuuuure. Ventuuuuuuuuuure. Funny word.
April 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
BIG news about BIG stories from our friends over at SLQ! We love to see it. 🤩
Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂
Read Amanda Krupman's review of Kathryn Aldridge-Morris's collection Cold Toast at SmokeLong now. Available from Dahlia Books. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/book-review-...
Book Review: Cold Toast by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by Amanda Krupman Kathryn Aldridge-Morris’s flash collection Cold Toast [Dahlia Books, October 2025] opens with an ekphrastic story referencing its cover art by Irish printmaker Lee Mara. It’...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thrilled beyond words with this review of Cold Toast at @smokelong.bsky.social! Massive thanks to Amanda Krupman and the SLQ team! 🤩🙏🥂
I’ve heard SLQ is having difficulty finding scab writers to serve on its award judging panels
July 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I’ve heard SLQ is having difficulty finding scab writers to serve on its award judging panels
The principle that "Every state has an obligation to prevent genocide wherever it occurs" must extend to state institutions too (eg Creative Aust, SLV, SLQ, etc etc) – not just for the sake of Gazans, but also to protect local institutions from their own executives' surrender to political pressure.
September 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The principle that "Every state has an obligation to prevent genocide wherever it occurs" must extend to state institutions too (eg Creative Aust, SLV, SLQ, etc etc) – not just for the sake of Gazans, but also to protect local institutions from their own executives' surrender to political pressure.
Video Guy has made a video of our first day at AWP 2025 ⭐️🎉
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youtu.be/OdQNcFlaiRQ?...
SLQ @ AWP 2025 - Day 1
YouTube video by SmokeLong Quarterly
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March 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Video Guy has made a video of our first day at AWP 2025 ⭐️🎉
youtu.be/OdQNcFlaiRQ?...
youtu.be/OdQNcFlaiRQ?...
Thank you to all the authors who came out to read yesterday evening in Singapore! youtu.be/HP7_S2nTimg?...
SLQ READING SINGAPORE 2025
YouTube video by SmokeLong Quarterly
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January 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Thank you to all the authors who came out to read yesterday evening in Singapore! youtu.be/HP7_S2nTimg?...
Announcing our latest awards nominations! For Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction, in thread:
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Announcing our latest awards nominations! For Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction, in thread:
Happy publication day to SLQ Senior Ed. Sherrie Flick! Get yourself a copy of this wonderful collection today ✨ @sherrieflick.bsky.social
Happy pub day to I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES by Sherrie Flick (@sherrieflick.bsky.social)
Of Sherrie's newest flash fiction collection, Paul Yoon said: "This is electric, knife-sharp fiction that isn’t afraid to bust open the armor and the costumes we wear every day."
Of Sherrie's newest flash fiction collection, Paul Yoon said: "This is electric, knife-sharp fiction that isn’t afraid to bust open the armor and the costumes we wear every day."
April 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy publication day to SLQ Senior Ed. Sherrie Flick! Get yourself a copy of this wonderful collection today ✨ @sherrieflick.bsky.social
In 2016 I was one of the winners of the Black&Write! fellowships/awards. It was a life changing award, leading to the publication of my Terra Nullius and all the awards, accolades, and publications I have achieved since. Without B&W and the SLQ I wouldn't be a writer ... 1/
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
In 2016 I was one of the winners of the Black&Write! fellowships/awards. It was a life changing award, leading to the publication of my Terra Nullius and all the awards, accolades, and publications I have achieved since. Without B&W and the SLQ I wouldn't be a writer ... 1/
The State Library of Qld can delete my membership.
I'm not interested in supporting SLQ when they don't support authors like Ren, who dare to stand against genocide.
We live in a time when standing AGAINST genocide is treated as a bad thing.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
#SLQ
#Auspol
I'm not interested in supporting SLQ when they don't support authors like Ren, who dare to stand against genocide.
We live in a time when standing AGAINST genocide is treated as a bad thing.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
#SLQ
#Auspol
They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/PDfNI5giGv4?...
SLQ Fitness - Ani King - Interview
YouTube video by SmokeLong Quarterly
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May 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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We had a time! SmokeLong in Baltimore! youtu.be/iC3cCVSSAyQ?...
AWP 2026 - SLQ off site event
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March 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
We had a time! SmokeLong in Baltimore! youtu.be/iC3cCVSSAyQ?...
It's time for First Nations creatives to take back Black&Write & Unaipon awards - our most prestigious national Blak awards. SLQ cannot protect these awards from gov interference. Surely award funders (Creative Aust & Copyright Agency) can help Blak creatives take back control of our programs? 19/
May 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's time for First Nations creatives to take back Black&Write & Unaipon awards - our most prestigious national Blak awards. SLQ cannot protect these awards from gov interference. Surely award funders (Creative Aust & Copyright Agency) can help Blak creatives take back control of our programs? 19/
SLQ is privileged to publish incredible work 💙
Congratulations to @jjpena.bsky.social on the inclusion of "the sky didn̶'t̶ slip inside" (winner of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest) in the Wigleaf top 50 💙 wigleaf.com
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the sky didn't slip inside - SmokeLong Quarterly
let’s pretend the day didn’t begin with death. let’s pretend you didn’t facetime my sister from your car crying, YOU’VE LEFT ME & I’VE FALLEN THROUGH THE EARTH, & then put a plastic bag over your head...
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June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
SLQ is privileged to publish incredible work 💙