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Ruth Joffre

Ruth Joffre is a writer and a critic whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nashville Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, The Millions, and The Rumpus, among others. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she lives in Seattle, where she teaches at the Hugo House.

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Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Softening
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Ruth Joffre

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.