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Michele Finn Johnson

Michele Finn Johnson’s short fiction collection, Development Times Vary, was the winner of the 2021 Moon City Press Short Fiction. Her fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work was selected for the 2019 Best Small Fictions anthology, won an AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction, and has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction anthologies. She lives in Tucson and serves as contributing editor at Split Lip Magazine. Find her on twitter at @m_finn_johnson.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Safety
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Michele Finn Johnson

Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Alexandra Karaim

Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Sara Hills

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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.

Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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