J. David Stevens is the author of Mexico is Missing and Other Stories and The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The North American Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Tin House, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, The Prose Poem, and others. He teaches writing at University of Richmond.
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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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.