Issue Sixty — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction
June 2018
From the Editor
When I first thought of the idea for the contest issue, I was excited but also very nervous. Would we be able to earn enough money to pay our winner? Would anyone enter? Would our submitters be mad at us for closing our general submissions for so long? And yet, after 15 years of publishing,… Continue reading Issue Sixty — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.