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Sam Martone

art by Carrie Wells

Sam Martone lives and writes in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He is the 2015 Penn State Altoona Emerging Writer-in-Residence. His recent work has appeared in Cartridge LitwigleafSwarm, and The Mondegreen. Find him at sammartone.com.

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Notes as Guest Reader/Editor in Smokelong Quarterly

Notes: Memory

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.