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Colette Love Hilliard

Colette Love Hilliard is a writer and English teacher from St. Louis, MO. She is the author of two blackout poetry collections—A Wonderful Catastrophe and Celestial Timpani—and her work is featured or forthcoming in HAD, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere. Among other things, a photo of her dog can be found at colettelh.com.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: How to Respond When Your Hairdresser Asks if You Have Any Children
Interview: Smoke Signals with Colette Love Hilliard

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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