Liz Declan is a queer single mother, a bi-polar maybe-woman, and in general someone who is confused that they have made it this far. She lives and teaches in Philadelphia. You can find more of her work on trauma, motherhood, and mental illness in Paper Darts, Entropy Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Split Lip Magazine. Follow her for daily nonsense @Mother_Faulkner.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.