Bezalel Stern is currently an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction in New York. His work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Contrary Magazine, The New Yorker, Wigleaf, Revolution House, kill author, The Jerusalem Post, City Journal, Identity Theory, Untoward Magazine, Lacuna, The Rumpus, The Second Pass, and The Millions. He is inordinately fond of cheese.
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The March Micro Marathon 25
We’re doing it again! We’re homing in on the micro: 100-word, 250-word, and 400-word stories. In March 2025 SmokeLong is hosting The March Micro Marathon, a 24-day workshop with a new writing task each day, peer review in small groups, 3 webinars, a reading and interview with Michelle Ross and the editors of 100 Word Story, and 3 competitions with cash prizes.