Chris Sheehan is an MFA graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California . His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Blue Earth Review , ZYZZYVA , Storyglossia , and The Angler, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of the Jeanine Cooney Award for Excellence in Fiction, and the Elizabeth Butler Award for Literary Excellence. He currently lives in Minnesota and is at work on a collection of stories and a novel.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.