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Issue Announcements

SPRING 2026 ISSUE UPDATE

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SPRING 2026 ISSUE UPDATE

The Smoky Quartz Spring 2026 issue is in production and will be published by the end of May.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work! We received outstanding submissions in poetry, prose, art, and photography. We’re grateful for the opportunity to consider your work for the Spring issue. Once again, the selection process was both thorough and challenging: we spent many hours carefully reviewing each submission before making our final decisions. We regret we could not publish all of the excellent work we received.

Please follow this News page for further updates on the Spring 2026 issue and on future issues of Smoky Quartz. You can also sign up to receive announcements and submission deadlines in your inbox by clicking on the Subscribe option at the bottom of every page.

The Editors, Smoky Quartz

Submissions

Submissions to the Spring 2026 issue now closed

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Thank you to everyone who submitted work to Smoky Quartz for the Spring 2026 online issue! We are now closed to submissions while the editors continue to review all work.

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Submissions

Reminder: Smoky Quartz Open to Submissions Through March 1st

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Thank you to those of you who have submitted your work already for the Spring 2026 Issue!

SMOKY QUARTZ

An online journal of literature and art

Smoky Quartz is open for submissions through – March 1st

We seek poetry ~ prose ~ art ~ photography

For complete submission guidelines, go to:

www.smokyquartz.org/submission

Smoky Quartz is published by the Monadnock Writers’ Group and welcomes submissions from new, emerging, and established writers and artists with ties to New Hampshire.

Eileen Curran-Kondrad, Clematis in Morning Dew
(featured in the Spring 2025 Issue)