Issue Sixty-Eight — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2020
June 2020
From the Editor
In this issue we offer you 13 stories: 12 finalists from The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction competition and “Ciénaga” by the 2020 SmokeLong fellow, María Alejandra Barrios. These pieces are mostly about isolation and loss, but I suppose this is a fitting reflection of our world today. The one love story in the… Continue reading Issue Sixty-Eight — The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2020
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.