Meagan Cass’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Pinch, Devil’s Lake, South Carolina Review, Prism Review, and in the Minnetonka Review, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette, where she was a founder of the online literary journal Rougarou. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois Springfield.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.