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Alex Brenner

Alex Brenner has been published in several journals. They were a prize winner in Southeast Review‘s World’s Shortest Story Contest and a Glimmer Train honorable mention. They have a law degree and a master’s in foreign policy, and are (slowly) working on their MFA in Washington DC. Alex has been disabled most of their life and has a number of rare diseases, when they are not writing, they are often educating medical students are researchers about their condition.

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Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Arithmetic of Snails
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors with Alex Brenner

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.