It’s that time of year again, when editors put on their Santa hats and make writers’ days and weeks and years. Sadly, we can nominate only two stories for Best of the Net. We wish we could nominate every damn story we publish.
2019 Best of the Net Nominations from SLQ
My Body Double Begins the Whole 30 Diet by Krys Malcolm Belc
Hatched by Nicole Rivas
Congratulations to Krys and Nicole from the SLQ team!
Christopher and Tara
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
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.
Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.