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SmokeLong’s Pushcart Nominations!

November 28, 2019

This has been a particularly difficult year for nominations. So many great stories. Thank you to all our contributors for allowing SmokeLong to share your work with the world. We owe you all a great debt.

We have nominated the following stories for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology:

Everything is Terrible but You Should Read This Story by Amber Sparks

Comatose by Fatima Alharthi

Flush by Margie Sarsfield

Eternal Sunshine by Tom McMillan

Sweet-N-Low by Pingmei Lan (forthcoming December 16)

All About Things That Can Hurt by Stephanie Reents

Congratulations to these authors and best of luck!

Team SmokeLong

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest

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.

Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

Learn more…