Brenda Peynado finished her MFA in fiction at Florida State University, where she was a Kingsbury Fellow, the fiction editor for the Southeast Review and won the 2011 prize for prose. Her work is forthcoming or published in The Threepenny Review, Brevity, and WSQ: The Women’s Studies Quarterly, among others. She is at work on a novel about Dominican Americans.
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The March Micro Marathon 25
We’re doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writing task each day, peer review in small groups, 3 webinars, a reading and interview with Michelle Ross and the editors of 100 Word Story, and 3 competitions with cash prizes.