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Dawn Miller

Dawn Miller is a 2024 recipient of The SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers. She won the 2024 Toronto Star Short Story Contest and is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Best Small Fictions nominee, and winner of Best Microfiction 2024. Her work appears in many journals and anthologies, including The Cincinnati Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Picton, Ontario, Canada, with her writing helper, Maizie the goldendoodle.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Orca
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Dawn Miller

Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly

Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with
Sara Kaplan-Cunningham

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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