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Kate Gehan

Kate Gehan was born and raised in New York City and is a graduate of Haverford College and Emerson College’s MFA program. Her short story collection, The Girl & The Fox Pirate, was published with Mojave River Press in 2018. Among other publications, her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Split Lip Magazine, Literary Mama, People Holding, and as a winner of Midwestern Gothic’s Flash Fiction Summer 2016 series. Kate read as a cast member of the 2014 Listen to Your Mother Show and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, The Best of the Net, and Wigleaf’s 50 (Very) Short Fictions. She lives with her family in the Midwest. Find her on Twitter @stateofkate and at kategehan.com.

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Notes as Guest Reader/Editor in Smokelong Quarterly

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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.

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