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Matt Bell

Matt Bell is the author of the novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods, a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. His next novel, Scrapper, will be published in Fall 2015. He teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Wayne Kumai, Novelist, Centaur
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors—An Interview with Matt Bell

Story: The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines
Interview: Smoking With Matt Bell

Story: How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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