Christopher Gonzalez is writer and a fiction editor at Barrelhouse. His short stories have recently appeared in jmww, Spelk, Split Lip Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and The Acentos Review, among others. He currently works in the digital production department of a publishing house in New York, and at night he self-medicates by bingeing on video content from the Bon Appétit test kitchen. You can follow him on Twitter @livesinpages.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.