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Natalie Teal McAllister

Natalie Teal McAllister is a fiction writer by night, marketing director by day, based in Kansas City. Her short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, No Tokens, Pigeon Pages, Midwestern Gothic, Cheap Pop, and Longleaf Review, among others. Natalie is a two-time Tin House Summer Workshop participant and a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Kansas.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Emma Jane Watson in a Drawer
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Natalie Teal McAllister

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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