The Smoky Quartz team has decided to provide an online community on Facebook for our followers. We will post calls for submissions, issue announcements, and other news in our new Facebook group, in addition to on this News page.
We invite readers, writers, and artists who follow our journal to join this private group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/smokyquartzjournal. Feel free to share your own news of publications or exhibits in this group.
An online journal of literature and art
Smoky Quartz will open for submissions January 15th – March 1st for the Spring 2026 Issue. We seek poetry, prose, art, and photography.
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.
For complete submission guidelines, go to:
www.smokyquartz.org/submissions
The editors of Smoky Quartz are thrilled to announce that two new volunteers are joining our team. First, Corinne Chronopoulos is joining the editorial team as a coordinator and editor. Her writing has appeared in Aegis, University of New Hampshire’s undergraduate literary and art magazine, and Smoky Quartz. Corinne has served as a public librarian for fifteen years and counting.
Also joining the team is Layla Thomas. Layla is a creative writing student at Southern New Hampshire University where she is the Co-Editor-in Chief of her school’s newspaper. Layla will be involved with a variety of tasks in creating the next issue.
You can learn more about Corinne and Layla on our website’s Home page.
We’re fortunate to have Deborah Murphy, our current editorial manager, continue with Smoky Quartz to mentor Corinne and Layla, and to help with the next issue. Thank you, Deborah!
Please help us welcome Corinne and Layla!
We’ll be sharing more news about the next issue of Smoky Quartz later this month.
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