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 2025 (awarded in January 2026). 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 2025 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 December 2025, our workshop participants reported more than 60 publications to us! That’s amazing! And this list is always a good place to start if you’re looking for places to publish your own work. If you missed the deadline to enter this year’s competition, no worries! The reading period for the 2026 competition will open very very soon!
Our next workshop series, besides our ongoing year-round community workshop SmokeLong Fitness, is The March Micro Marathon 2026. The past two marathons were generative romps that produced thousands of micros.
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“Penitent, I Shed My Skin” by Jaye Frisina, in Mslexia Best Women’s Short Fiction 2025
“The Between Man” by Kim Magowan, in BULL
“Nectarines” by Kim Magowan, in BULL
“Goat Song” by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Butterfield Estates, 1968” by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio, in Flash Flood
“Camera Roll, May 2022” by Linda M. Bayley, in Does It Have Pockets?
“Making Sky” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Gargoyle Magazine
“Beer and a Shot” by James Keith Smith, in BULL
“Picture Day” by Eileen Frankel Tomarchio, in Vestal Review
“You Didn’t Leave Your Husband Because the Tarot Reader Told You To” by Christina Tudor, in Tiny Molecules
“Shattered” by Stephanie Reddoch, in Pictura Journal
“An Angel Came to Me” by Ani King, in scaffold
“Leave Marks” by Christina Tudor, in January House Literary Journal
“Feels Like Rain” by Ani King, in Paranoid Tree
“Uncanny” by Christina Tudor, in January House Literary Journal
“Indiana Jones And The Giant Pit Of Consequences” by Timothy Goodwin, in Complete Sentence, a magazine of single-sentence prose
“Jeopardy” by Allison Field Bell, in wigleaf
“The Mirror of Winter” by Sarah McPherson, in Crow & Cross Keys
“Poison” by Sarah McPherson, in WestWord
“Kukhlefl” by Johannah Simon, in Bubble Tea Literary
“Appeasement” by Jaime Gill, in New Flash Fiction Review
“Prior to The State Inquiry, My Parents Ran a Children’s Prison” by Christian Fuller, in Bruiser
“Judgment Day” by LM Fontanes, in Emerge Literary Journal
“Sweet and Sour” by Johannah Simon, in University of Alabama, Al Dente
“Leaving” by Kelly Pedro, in Fractured Lit
“The Night the Walrus Came to Take My Baby” by Emily Rinkema, in Vestal Review
“Vagina First” by Emily Rinkema, in The Bath Flash Fiction Award (2nd place)
“Shitzy, Who Ate Her Brother” by Emily Rinkema, in The Orange Rose
“A City by an Ocean with a Plant by a Window, and a Cat” by Emily Rinkema, in Flash Frog
“Signals” by Michelle Furnace Brosius, in Flash Flood
“Hi, Mr Creative Writing Tutor” by Chris Cottom, in Moonpark Review
“Antarctica in the Basement” by Belinda Rowe, in Vestal Review
“After the potter is cremated” by Belinda Rowe, in New Flash Fiction Review
“The First Thing We Threw Off the Rooftop Were Our Phones” by Belinda Rowe, in Bending Genres
“Ah Ma’s Ghost” by Christine H. Chen, in New World Writing
“Give Us a Hand” by Christine H. Chen, in The Cafe Irreal
“Nest” by Christine H. Chen, in Gooseberry Pit Lit Magazine
“Flight” by Christine H. Chen, in Gooseberry Pit Lit Magazine
“If You Were Here,” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in Necessary Fiction
“The Beauty of Maths” by Chris Cottom, in Hysteria 11
“The Altar of Saint Cindy” by Kate Horsley, in Vestal Review
“The Meat Ration” by Kate Horsley, in The Cincinnati Review miCRo
“The Tao of Thorstein Codbiter” by Kate Horsley, in Flash Fiction Online
“The Break In” by Sandy Krausnick, in Cosmic Daffodil’s ebook collection In the Company of Strangers, p 47
“Civil Twilight” by Fiona McKay, in Does It Have Pockets?
“The Fragrant Path” by Malina Douglas, in Ginosko Literary Journal, p 60
“Shards” by Malina Douglas, in Defenestrationism
“After the Umbrella” by Malina Douglas, in Over/Exposed
“The Huntsman” by Laura Durkee, in WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest (runner-up)
“May I have this…” by Coleman Bigelow, in Flash Frontier
“Like Jesus in a Dead Man’s Float” by Mamie Pound, in Image
“After School Special” by Mamie Pound, in Milk Candy Review
“Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas” by Mamie Pound, in Ghost Parachute
“Love with a Troll in a Sweet Potato Vine” by Mamie Pound, in Bending Genres
“Elegy for The Tin Man” by Mamie Pound, in Ghost Parachute
“An Intense Golden Color with Aromas of Beeswax and Apricot” by Mamie Pound, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Memory Box” by JR Fenn, in New Millennium Writings, First Place winner of the 59th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction
“The Last Cinematographer in Space” by JR Fenn, in Exposition Review, 2nd Place Winner – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal”
“Rain, Book, and Potato Salad” by Ann Yuan, in Oyster River Pages
“Men’s Stupidity” by Ann Yuan, in Brilliant Flash Fiction
“Something They Taught You in High School” by Ann Yuan, in Eclectica Magazine
