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David Schweidel

David Schweidel writes fiction and creative nonfiction. His novel Confidence of the Heart won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. His nonfiction book, What Men Call Treasure, co-written with Robert Boswell, was a Western Writers Award finalist. He lives in Berkeley and teaches poetry as an elementary school volunteer.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Shilly-Shallying
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with David Schweidel

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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