Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below is eligible to win The SmokeLong Workshop Prize, which is awarded in January of the following year. At the moment, the grand prize is $500. This competition is free to enter and can be found on our Submittable page.
If you have participated in a SmokeLong workshop anytime between 2019 and now and have published something that you drafted in that workshop, your work is eligible. Say you participated in a webinar in 2020 and you published something you started there later in 2023. Let us know now. Your work will be eligible to win the prize in 2025 (award in January 2026). Or maybe you published something in 2024 that started in A SmokeLong Summer 22 but are just now reading about this competition. Let us know. The only limitations are that your work must be published before the deadline in December 25 and it must have been drafted in a SmokeLong workshop.
In May 2025, over 40 publications were reported to us! That’s amazing!
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“Analysis” by Michelle Ross, in Flash Boulevard
“Fiction Writing” by Michelle Ross, in Fractured Lit
“I take off my clothes for him” by Allison Field Bell, in Milk Candy Review
“A Thousand Hallelujahs” by Tracie Adams, in Amethyst Review
“I Should Write the Letter” by Tracie Adams, in Raw Lit
“An Apology to the Drive Thru Teller I Robbed Accidentally” by Tracie Adams, in Frazzled Lit
“The Chase” by Tracie Adams, in Neither Fish Nor Foul
“Pearls” by Tracie Adams, in Moria
“The Ink Dries On All Life Stories” by Jaime Gill, in Flash Fiction Magazine
“Wasps” by Mikki Aronoff, in Midway Journal
“Baby Goat on the Roof” by Sara Hills, in Fractured Lit
“Old Houses Are Like That” by Patience Mackarness, in Moon City Review (print)
“Baron Karl von Drais’ First Bicycle Ride” by Andrew Graham Martin, in Okay Donkey
“The Paw of a Mouse Is Called a Hand” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Flash Frog
“Into This World” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Moon City Review (print)
“Some Cannibals” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Scapegoat Review
“His Ear” by Nora Esme Wagner, in wigleaf
“Canned” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Gown Lawn
“The Man You Sleep With After Your First Boyfriend Breaks Up With You Because He Isn’t Attracted to You Anymore” by Nora Esme Wagner, in BULL
“Closer Than They Appear” by Nora Esme Wagner, in -ette
“Too Young to Smoke” by Patience Mackarness, in Northern Gravy
“Queen of the Street” by Patience Mackarness, in Northern Gravy
“The Places You’re Not” by Patience Mackarness, in Emerge Literary Journal
“Holy Motor” by Andrew Graham Martin, in Moonpark Review
“How to Manage Anger in Four Drafts” by Tracie Adams, in South Florida Poetry Journal
“Our Little Secret” by Tracie Adams, in Epistemic Literary
“Ghost Writer” by Tracie Adams, in Sky Island Journal
“Maybe It’s Love” by Tracie Adams, in Citywide Lunch
“Birds of Paradise Lost” by Tracie Adams, in Cosmic Daffodil Journal
“Blessed” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, in Necessary Fiction
“Because We Don’t Know Any Better” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, in Lost Balloon
“Love Buzz Cut, A Story About A Girl” by Ani King, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Venomous” by Beth Sherman, in Hotch Potch Literature
“Something Less Dangerous” by Beth Sherman, in Works Progress
“Try cotton balls dipped in buttermilk” by Beth Sherman, in Paragraph Planet
“I Regret to Inform You I Made These Plans When I Gave a Shit and Things Have Changed” by Mario Aliberto III, Fractured Lit
“Pareidolia” by Kelly Pedro, in CRAFT (one of three winners of the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize)
“Drifting” by Kelly Pedro, in Moon City Review (print)
“Now I Turn Myself into Origami” by Susan Israel, in Okay Donkey
“Red” by Susan Israel, in Bright Flash Literary Review
“All Toads are Frogs” by Beth Sherman, in Croak
“Junior High” by Beth Sherman, in Molecule
“Nest” by Beth Sherman, in Waffle Fried
“Butterfly Time” by Sage Tyrtle, in trampset
The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.