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Brendan Stephens

Brendan Stephens is a writer and assistant professor at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Pinch, Epoch, The Southeast Review, The Hopkins Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. His awards include multiple Inprint Donald Barthelme awards, an Into the Void Fiction Prize, a Sequestrum Emerging Writer Award, and inclusion in wigleaf‘s Top 50 Very Short Fictions. Currently, he serves as the online creative nonfiction editor for The Florida Review and a submissions editor for SmokeLong Quarterly.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Rascal
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Brendan Stephens

Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke Signals with Corey Miller

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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