The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 is a global literary competition hosted by SmokeLong Quarterly. It welcomes micro fiction, non-fiction, or hybrid narratives of 250 words or fewer from writers worldwide, with submissions allowed in any language provided an English translation accompanies non-English works. Prizes are awarded to winners and finalists, and all winners and finalists are published in SmokeLong Quarterly.

Cash prizes for winners and finalists; publication in SmokeLong Quarterly; recognition within a leading flash-fiction venue.

Open to writers worldwide aged 18 years or older.

Submit up to four micro pieces via the Official Link; submissions are anonymized and require a separate cover letter for author details.