Deadline: November 11, 2024
Entry fee: $11
About the competition
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The competition is organized by SmokeLong Quarterly, an online literary magazine dedicated to flash narratives.
The competition is open to anyone 18 years of age or older from anywhere.
Fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid narratives are considered. Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.
All entries are read blind by a team of 15 SmokeLong editors from around the world.
Prizes:
- Finalists: $100
- Grand Prize: $1,000
- Second Place: $500
- Third Place: $300
Competition guideline
- Enter starting August 1, 2024!
- Word Count: 250 words or fewer for each micro (excluding the title). Put both/all micros in the same document.
- Languages: English or any other language accompanied by an English translation. The story will be judged on the English text. We are considering previously published work, so please feel free, if you are a translator, to seek out those exceptional micros from around the world–with the author’s permission of course. Translator and author will split the prize money equally.
- Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered. Please do not indicate where the micro was published if you are entering a published micro. We do our best to read anonymously though we understand that previously published work might be immediately recognized. If judges know who wrote the piece, those judges will recuse themselves.
- Read the whole guideline and submit your entry here.
