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Joshua Jones Lofflin

Joshua Jones Lofflin is an award-winning writer with work in The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. His stories have been anthologized in The Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, and ECO: The Year’s Best Ecofiction. He lives in Maryland. Find him online at jjlofflin.com.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Cartographers
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Joshua Jones

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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