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Caroline Wampole

Caroline Wampole is a writer, artist, musician, and performer who lives in Western Massachusetts. In a previous life she was the bass player and singer for the rock-funk band Big Soul, which had a platinum record in France. She has also been an art teacher, improv theater director, and expat painter in Paris. She is currently writing a memoir about how playing in a rock band led her to her true home of art.

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.