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Clare MacQueen

Clare MacQueen is editor-in-chief and publisher of KYSO Flash, and was recently named to the General Advisory Board of The Best Small Fictions 2017 (Braddock Avenue Books), to consult on haibun stories and tanka tales. She served as assistant editor, domestic for The Best Small Fictions 2016 (Queen’s Ferry Press). She has also served as copy editor and webmaster for Serving House Journal since its inception in 2010, and she is co-editor of Steve Kowit: This Unspeakably Marvelous Life (Serving House Books, 2015). Her short fiction and essays appear in Firstdraft, Bricolage, and Serving House Journal, and her essays appear in the anthologies Best New Writing 2007 and Winter Tales II: Women on the Art of Aging. Her nonfiction won an Eric Hoffer Best New Writing Editor’s Choice Award and was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.