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Brigitte N. McCray

A 2014 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and a member of Codex Writers, Brigitte N. McCray earned an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD from Louisiana State University. McCray’s fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Fat Magazine; Cease, Cows; Rose Red Review; Prick of the Spindle; Mythic Delirium; Southern Humanities Review; storySouth.com; Red Rock Review; and elsewhere. @bnmccray

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Body’s Amen
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Brigitte N. McCray

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Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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