Elaine Chiew is the editor/compiler of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015). She won The Bridport Prize in 2008 and most recently the Elbow Room Prize (2015). She’s been nominated for Best of Small Fictions 2016 and shortlisted and long listed in numerous competitions, including most recently, Short Fiction, Mslexia, BBC Opening Lines, Fish International Short Stories, among others. Her most recent stories can be found in Potomac Review and Singapore Love Stories (Monsoon Books, 2016). At the moment, she’s based in Singapore as she completes her Masters in Asian Art History at Lasalle College of the Arts.
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.