Issue Eighty
June 2023
From the Editor
I have so much to tell you. Issue 80 has been the result of so much hard work. Over the last three months, our twenty-one submissions editors and our four Emerging Writer Fellows read 2738 submissions. They are tireless, thoughtful, and quick. Thank you. Our team of senior editors and our guest editor, Megan Pillow,… Continue reading Issue Eighty
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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.
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