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2017 Kathy Fish Finalists Announced

December 9, 2016

Out of more than 300 applications for the 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship, our staff has narrowed the list to 13 finalists. We’d like to congratulate and honor these 13 writers for their accomplishment.

The finalists are:

Maria Alvarez
Joy Baglio
Jacquelyn Bengfort
Rebekah Bergman
Hedgie Choi
Tayler Heuston
JSP Jacobs
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Andrew Mitchell
Allison Pinkerton
Eric Schlich
Mackenzie Smith
Benjamin Woodard

We hope to make a final decision about the winner of the fellowship in the next two weeks. Congratulations to all our finalists, and thank you to all the writers who submitted to the contest this year. We’ve been truly stunned by the talent in the queue.

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.