David Ryan ’s work is forthcoming in The Southhampton Review and DIAGRAM, and has recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, Bellevue Literary Journal, and Epiphany. He’s the author of the story collection Animals in Motion (Roundabout Press) and a hybrid memoir/literary criticism Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: Bookmarked. He teaches in the writing programs of Sarah Lawrence College and New England College.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.