Sarah Hilary won the Fish Historical-Crime Contest with “Fall River, August 1892,” and has two stories in the Fish anthology 2008. She was a Highly Commended runner-up in the Biscuit Short Story Contest 2008. The latest Crime Writers’ Association anthology features Sarah’s story, “One Last Pick-Up.” Her work can be found in Literary Fever, JuiceBox, Every Day Fiction, Ranfurly Review and Zygote in my Coffee. Sarah blogs here.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.