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 Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.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

• Grand Prize: $1,000
• Second Place: $500
• Third Place: $300
• Finalists: $100

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.