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Virgie Townsend

Virgie Townsend’s short fiction has been featured in such publications as Tin House’s Flash Fridays, Gargoyle, and Bartleby Snopes, as well as the anthologies SmokeLong Quarterly: The Best of the First Ten Years and Best of Pif, Volume One. Find her online at www.virgietownsend.com or @virgietownsend.

Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with David Lerner Schwartz

Interview: “I want weird stories.”—An interview with guest editor Alvin Park

Interview: On the Continuum of Art and Science: An Interview with the Winner of Africa’s Etisalat Prize for Flash Fiction

Interview: Smoking With Matthew Smart

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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