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Friday, June 11, 2010
New Leadership at SmokeLong... and Other News
There are changes a-brewin' at SmokeLong, and we thought we'd fill you in on them.
EDITORIAL STAFF
While Dave Clapper is still founder, publisher and downright genius, he has decided to step down from the day-to-day editorial decisions at SmokeLong.
That leaves us — Tara Laskowski and Beth Thomas — taking over as senior editors. We are handling the scheduling of our guest editors for SmokeLong Weekly (more on that in a minute), publication of SmokeLong Quarterly, general communication, and working directly with our contributors. We will also populate this blog more often with news, interviews and other features.
Meg Pokrass, our solicitations editor, is handling special collaborations with authors, as well as features, interviews and multi-media presentations sure to dazzle and amaze. And we are blessed with wonderful staff editor and copy editor in Davin Malasarn.
Find out more than you needed to know about all of us here: http://www.smokelong.com/staff_bios.asp.
SMOKELONG WEEKLY
We are now publishing stories weekly as well as quarterly. SmokeLong Weekly started earlier this year, with the intention of diversifying our publishing voice while spicing up our publication calendar.
For SmokeLong Weekly, we bring in a new guest editor every few weeks to read our submissions and choose one story from their week for publication. This has been a great way to get different voices and more variety in SLQ, as each guest editor brings their own unique aesthetic and style to the table.
As the year goes on, we will feature guest editors each month as well as SLQ "Staff Picks." We have posted a schedule of our upcoming editorial calendar below and will update it as we go so you can know who is reading when and target your submission accordingly. You can always check our web site for a photo and bio of the current week's reader.
SMOKELONG QUARTERLY
We are also still publishing our regular quarterly issues and hope to have the latest quarterly at the end of this month. The quarterlies will include all weekly stories from that quarter plus additional stories and interviews.
We are very excited about the changes at SLQ, and we are pleased to be part of a journal that consistently publishes some of the finest very short fiction out there.
Questions, concerns, compliments and free stuff can be emailed to us at editors@smokelong.com.
Thanks!
With love,
Tara and Beth
SmokeLong Weekly Guest Editor Schedule
June 14: Erin Fitzgerald
June 21: Kelly Spitzer
June 28: Dave Clapper
July 5: SmokeLong Quarterly Staff Pick
July 12: Tara Masih
July 19: Tara Laskowski
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