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Alexandra Karaim

Alexandra Karaim is a writer from Tucson, Arizona, living in Dublin, Ireland. She earned her MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. She also has a BFA in Writing for Screen & TV from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her work has been published in The New Word Order. She was a contributing editor in 2022 for the Belfield Literary Review, a collaboration between University College Dublin and the Museum of Literature Ireland.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Museum of Natural History
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Alexandra Karaim

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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