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David Scrivner

David Scrivner was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently enrolled in the PhD in Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His recent fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Paradise Review, and Hawai’i Review. Dave’s fiction won the National Society of Arts and Letters Short Story Contest, regional, and was selected as a finalist in Glimmer Trains Short Stories by New Writers Contest and New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Contest.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Dispatches from the Interior
Interview: Smoking With David Scrivner

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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