Beth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teach in Ashburn, VA. Her fiction has been published in Story, The Baltimore Review, Mid-American Review and other literary journals. She has a chapbook of poetry, Noticing the Splash, that was published in 2009 by BoneWorld Press. Her story “Mercy” was published in Amazing Graces: A Collection of Fiction by D.C. Area Women.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.