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Nicole VanderLinden

Nicole VanderLinden’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Pithead Chapel, Jellyfish Review, and elsewhere. She’s an associate editor at Colorado Review as well as a reader for Ploughshares and The Masters Review. Her book reviews have appeared in Colorado Review, The Masters Review, and The Denver Post.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: A Bee Story
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Nicole VanderLinden

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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