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Kuzhali Manickavel

Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut collection Insects Are Just Like You And Me Except Some Of Them Have Wings is available from Blaft Publications Pvt. Ltd. Her work can also be found at Subtropics, Per Contra, Quick Fiction, Caketrain and The Café Irreal. She lives in a small temple town on the coast of South India.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Society for the Preservation of Everything
Interview: Smoking With Kuzhali Manickavel

Story: Little Bones
Interview: Smoking With Kuzhali Manickavel

Story: Mrs. Krishnan
Interview: Smoking With Kuzhali Manickavel

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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