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, with the exception of those reported by SmokeLong staff members, 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 2026 (awarded in January 2027). Or maybe you published something in 2024 that you started in A SmokeLong Summer 22 but are just now reading about this competition. Let us know now. The only limitations are that your work must be published before the deadline in December each year, and it must have been drafted in a SmokeLong workshop. SmokeLong staff members are not eligible to win The SmokeLong Workshop Prize, but we include their work drafted in a SmokeLong workshop below because we of course want to celebrate their successes too!
In October, our workshop participants reported 30 publications to us! This list is always a good place to start if you’re looking for places to publish your own work.
If you’re in a SmokeLong workshop (or you have been), and you’re kicking yourself because you didn’t report your success(es) in October, no worries. Simply report them in November. Simples.
The next opportunity to join SmokeLong monthly or annually is at the beginning of December, or you can Try SmokeLong Fitness in January and December for just $55. Click here to register!
Please help us celebrate the following publications in October! Onward, trousers!
“A Woman’s Prayer After Moving to Melton Mowbray on a Rainy Wednesday” by Chris Cottom, in Epistemic Literary
“Hands Off” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in Brown Bag Online
“Escape Routes” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in Pictura Journal
“Old Croghan Man” by Laura Nagle, in Ellipsis Zine
“We’ll Always Have Paris” by Kim Magowan, in Ghost Parachute
“Hadoken!” by Mary Magdalen Smihula, in Turn & Work
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” by Chris Cottom, in Pfeilstorch Literary
“Buried in the leaves” by Jaime Walls, in Little Fruits Magazine
“For us guests of the first Academy Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel” by Louise Hurrell, in Flash Frog
“Prepping Eleventh Grade Government” by Shira Musicant, in BULL
“Coils” by Jaime Gill, in Exposition Review (1st Place Winner – Flash 405, June 2026)
“The Constuctivist” by Elizabeth Rosen, in The Ekphrastic Review
“A Woman Walking Not Alone” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Burningword Literary Journal
“The Night Age Got a Jump Start on Flora” by Shira Musicant, in The Itch Lit
“You Can Rehome a Cat but not a Kid” by Tracie Adams, in Hippocampus Magazine, Runner-up, 2026 contest for flash CNF
“I Met God in a Bookstore” by Tracie Adams, in Blood+Honey
“Beast of Burden” by Tracie Adams, in Pithead Chapel
“Oh the Places I’ll Virtually Go” by Tracie Adams, in Emerge Literary Journal
“Counting to Eight and Other Childhood Games” by Tracie Adams, in Anti-Heroin Chic
“How to Make Peace with Your Dead Cousin When Sorry Isn’t Enough” by Tracie Adams, in Hollow and Sky
“It’s More than Cats and Rainbows and Waning Moons” by Tracie Adams, in The Leafline Magazine
“When the Sun Stops Posting Pics” by Tracie Adams, in Dissolution, La Rotonde Review Anthology
“The Hush” by Tracie Adams, in Reckon Review
“Rebirth” by Tracie Adams, in Bright Flash Literary Review
“For the Love of Hot Mustard” by Tracie Adams, in Dishsoap Quarterly
“Doggerland (or, 10,000 years ago there were no small boats crossing the English Channel)” by Erin Bondo, in National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2026, Editor’s Choice Award
“Threshold” by Shira Musicant, in Santa Barbara Literary Review
“Richard Chamberlain Reprises His Heartthrob Role (and Considers a Comeback)” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Thin Skin
“My Father is a House of Many Rooms” by Chris Cottom, in Gone Lawn
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.