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Mike Minchin

Mike Minchin’s stories have appeared recently in Gargoyle Magazine, Vermont Magazine, Green Writers Press Greenzine, and Mud Season Review. His fiction has received Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers and the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. He earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Quiet Hours
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Mike Minchin

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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