Lee Reilly is the author of two nonfiction books. Her fiction and nonfiction have won recognition from Writers at Work, the Barbara Deming Fund, River Styx, Florida Review, Hunger Mountain, the Ragdale Foundation, and other arts organizations and publications. She lives on a beach in Chicago.
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Pastor Bob’s Picnic
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Lee Reilly
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.