Matthew Brennan is a writer and editor from the Pacific Northwest. He earned his MFA in fiction from Arizona State University, and serves on the editorial staff of the Hayden’s Ferry Review and Speech Bubble Magazine. Brennan’s short fiction and literary translations have earned several awards and fellowships, and have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including Two Lines, The Los Angeles Review, Per Contra, Emerge Literary Magazine, Pure Slush, The Eunoia Review, and Fiddleblack.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.