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August 9th! Master Series Reading and Interview with Aimee Bender

August 6, 2025

This event has passed, but you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel

We are excited to invite you to an interview and reading with Aimee Bender, the author of the collections The Girl in the Flammable SkirtWillful Creatures, and The Color Master; and the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeAn Invisible Sign of My Own, and most recently The Butterfly Lampshade. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages.

This event is open to the public, but everyone needs to request the Zoom link through the shop if they are not in SmokeLong Fitness. Alternatively, if you have trusted friends who want to attend, you can give them the Zoom link, or you can direct them to the SmokeLong Shop. It’s free! And we’ll be giving away lots of books.

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.