Issue Thirty-Seven
September 2012
From the Editor
What an exciting time at SLQ! I’m talking about this issue, of course (more on that, below) but also the upcoming anthology, which will celebrate ten years of SmokeLong Quarterly. We’ve been reading and re-reading stories going back to the first issue, struggling to choose from so many wonderful stories, and we are so excited… Continue reading Issue Thirty-Seven
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Deadline November 15th!
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.
The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.
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