Susan Rukeyser is a Taurus and prefers her hooves on terra firma. She earned her MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, UK. Her work appears in or is forthcoming from Atticus Review, Eclectic Flash, Hippocampus, Ink Sweat and Tears, Melusine, Metazen, PANK, and Short Fast and Deadly. She does her best to explain herself here: www.susanrukeyser.com.
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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.