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Lucas Southworth

Lucas Southworth’s stories are forthcoming from or have recently appeared in TriQuarterly, Meridian, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, and others. His collection of short stories, Everyone Here Has a Gun, recently won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). Southworth is a professor of fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland and an editor for the Baltimore Review.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Hunger
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Lucas Southworth

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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