Caren Beilin‘s fiction chapbook, Americans, Guests, or Us, is available from Diagram/New Michigan Press and her novel, The University of Pennsylvania, is the winner of Noemi Press’s Book Award for Fiction and will be published next fall. She is from Philadelphia.
Story:
Portrait of a Writer I Remember as a Young Masturbator
Interview: Smoking With Caren Beilin
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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.