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Melissa Scholes Young

Melissa Scholes Young‘s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Narrative, PloughsharesPoets & WritersPoet Lore, and other literary journals. She teaches at American University in Washington, D.C., and is a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellow. Follow her on Twitter @mscholesyoung

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Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: Storage
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Melissa Scholes Young

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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.