Julia Strayer
@juliastrayer.bsky.social
Writer. Animal lover. Not afraid of math. Wigleaf Top 50/Best Small Fictions Submissions Ed: SmokeLongQuarterly Stories at Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review online, Jellyfish Review, Atticus Review, Cincinnati Review, and others https://juliastrayer.com/
So grateful to @reckonreview.bsky.social and Drew Coles for selecting this story and to @megpokrass.bsky.social for the weird inspiration 💛
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · last wk.New fiction today from Julia Strayer. Come read "House Quilting." @juliastrayer.bsky.social
Honored to have a story selected for The Wigleaf Top 50! 🥰 Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for publishing the story, “Small, Ambiguous Moments,” and thanks to the entire @wigleaf.bsky.social team and Guest Selecting Editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
Thrilled to have a story up at @bendinggenres.bsky.social Thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social for saying yes and @megpokrass.bsky.social for the inspiration! This small story is part of a larger project I’m working on. #staytuned
The Museum of What Was Left Behind
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PSAs. Our free-submissions window is open one more week! Issue 92 comes out June 15th! We've announced the winners and finalists! Registration for SmokeLong Fitness starting Aug 1st opens July 1st. If you're participating in A SmokeLong Summer 26, don't forget about our write-ins on Saturday!
Thanks to @turnandwork.com for featuring a recent story published at @craftlit.bsky.social www.craftliterary.com/2026/04/10/g...
Ghosts in the Rain by Julia Strayer - CRAFT
“A day of fun,” my father had said, but that Sunday only involved walking from one place downtown that was closed to another. He bought white sheets for my bed at the only store open. This wasn’t long...
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Turn and Work (Hugh)@turnandwork.com · 3mo ago...plus Julia Strayer @juliastrayer.bsky.social in CRAFT Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social Frank Jackson @frankerson.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social (...2/3)...
So thankful to @brettpribble.bsky.social for selecting my story for the Ninth Anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! And I love Brett J Barr’s art 🦊🐈
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 10mo agoRead "Everywhere for Answers" written by @juliastrayer.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "He wears a wolf mask, and that’s okay. I’m fairly forgiving." tinyurl.com/57w6rsde
Thrilled to have “Mama Wanted” up at @trampset.bsky.social today! Thanks to @jedwardkruft.bsky.social and the other editors for saying yes. And thanks to @megpokrass.bsky.social for the inspiration. trampset.org/mama-wanted-...
Mama Wanted
by Julia Strayer
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Such an amazing story @smokelong.bsky.social
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 11mo ago"I still very much and thoroughly consider myself a fiction writer. But sometimes something of life presents itself directly for writing, and that was this." Our first featured author of Issue 89 is Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social. Read her interview here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
"Mama wanted a house, so she stole one she found abandoned on the corner of Sycamore and Grant" @juliastrayer.bsky.social's "Mama Wanted" trampset.org/mama-wanted-...
Mama Wanted
by Julia Strayer
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The rejections come in…the submissions go out…The rejections come in…the submissions go out…The rejections come in…the submissions go out…sometimes you cry…The rejections come in…the submissions go out…The rejections come in…the submissions go out…The rejections come in…the submissions go out…
I love when an older story is discovered 🥰
sarah lynn hurd@sarlynh.bsky.social · last yr."Maybe I'm not one of those natural talkers. Did she ever think of that?" This surreal little piece by @juliastrayer.bsky.social in '17 @wigleaf.bsky.social deftly blends magic and melancholy. @smokelong.bsky.social #ArchiveChallenge Day 6 wigleaf.com/201709thimbl...
Thrilled to have a story at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Thanks to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social 🎳🧺 fracturedlit.com/a-perfect-pa...
A Perfect Pair - Fractured
My husband has this idea to marry a laundromat and a bowling alley. “A perfect pair,” he says. “Like us.” He’s an idiot. Who’d want that? “Think about it. Now they wait for free, but we could clean up...
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So excited to be in @havehashad.com! Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for saying yes and to @megpokrass.bsky.social for the workshop that gave this piece its start.
HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.idk if it says more about last call's batch of subs or me as their reader, but a string of heartfelt, heartbreaking, heartwarming pieces lately a real beauty today from Julia Strayer "She only knows who I am because I always say, Hi Mom, when I call." https://www.havehashad.com/66dqs
I stopped writing flash for a few years while I worked on a longer project. I started again because it feels like coming home. I’m thrilled to have a story at @flashfrog.bsky.social Thanks @ericscottryon.bsky.social for choosing it and Alaina Hammond for the great art! flash-frog.com/2025/06/02/c...
Come on Down! by Julia Strayer
My ex doesn’t know he’s my ex. I just packed and left. Headed east for an hour. It’s close to midnight and I’m cruising through a one-light town in his old Crown Vic on the way from nowhere to some…
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Thrilled to be on this list by @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Grateful to @smokelong.bsky.social for publishing this story and @mattkendrick.bsky.social for Mondettes 🥰
Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 2y agoThis month's #Mondettes picked by @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social ⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Finnian made these brilliant picks 💡Three great prompts mondettes.substack.com/p/january-2025
Have you nominated a writer to receive $300 from SmokeLong this FlashGiving? We'll announce the winner on Thanksgiving. www.smokelong.com/flashgiving-...
FlashGiving 2024 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each year, the editors of SmokeLong put their heads together to come up with something good to do for someone in the community during the season of giving. Over the years we’ve given away books, suppo...
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Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction with Shasta Grant, a SmokeLong webinar/peer-review/feedback event. Book now. Live webinar 9/30, with peer-review workshop following. https://www.smokelong.com/product/writing-about-family-in-creative-nonfiction-with-shasta-grant/
Writing about Family in Creative Nonfiction with Shasta Grant - SmokeLong Quarterly
How can you balance the considerations and privacy of the actual people you’re writing about while also fully developing characters on the page? What is more important: fact or emotional truth? What...
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Another great issue!! ❤️ these writers and their words.
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 3y agoIssue 81 is live. Read these 12 amazing stories, including five of the best from all those we loved in A SmokeLong Summer. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible. https://www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty-one/
We said, Hey. What’s goin’ on? Well, quite a few things, really: The Mikey is open for flash fiction and cnf, including previously published and translations, up to 400 words EIC Christopher Allen’s generative 2-hour webinar/workshop is August 12 Afterglow is coming to make the summer SmokeLonger
Wrangling a ghost story into shape. The ghost is fine, but the still-alive humans are causing trouble. 👻
Researching Montana grasslands for a flash I’m writing when I should be editing the novel.
