Melanie Rae Thon’s fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, and Farsi. Her most recent work appears in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2006, Pushcart Prize XXX, and the literary journals Agni, Five Points, and Antioch Review. Before coming to Utah in 2000, she taught literature and writing at Emerson College, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Syracuse University, and Ohio State University. She teaches fiction at the University of Utah.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.