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Maia Jenkins

Maia Jenkins is a writer living and working in Meridian, Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared in GQ, Grazia, Litro and The Upcoming. In 2013, she won the GQ Student Writing Prize and was named Fiction Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Salt Lake City. She is also the winner of the 2014 Bailey’s First Chapter Prize.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

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Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Maia Jenkins

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest

Deadline November 15th!

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.

The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.

Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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