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Gabriel Houck

Gabriel Houck currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at Emory University. His first story collection, You or a Loved One, won the 2017 Orison Fiction Prize. His fiction appears in Glimmer Train, Mid American Review, The Sewanee Review, West Branch, The Cimarron Review and elsewhere, and his stories “When the Time Came” and “The Dot Matrix” were selected as distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Don’t Be Alarmed
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Gabriel Houck

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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