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Elisa Faison

Elisa Faison recently completed her PhD in Contemporary American Fiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works as a bookseller at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC and as a freelance novel editor on Reedsy. Her debut novel is being represented by Carrie Howland at Howland Literary Agency. She has published or forthcoming work in The Lumiere Review, Extrapolation, The Carolina Quarterly, The Women’s Review of Books, and Ethos Review. Her story “A Survey of Modern Art” received an Honorable Mention in Typehouse Literary Magazine’s 2022 Short Fiction Contest, judged by author Angela Jackson-Brown. Follow her on Twitter at @ElisaFaison.

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.