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.
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 begun in a SmokeLong workshop.
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“Boo” by Beth Sherman, in Ginosko Literary Journal
“Real People” by Kim Magowan, in Ghost Parachute
“Ping Pong a Chronicle” by Shira Musicant, in Frazzled Lit
“Deluge, Surging River, Flooded House” by Shira Musicant, in Does It Have Pockets?
“Gorilla gorilla gorilla” by Sara Hills, in Flash Frog
“Assassins” by Beth Sherman, in Bottle Rocket
“T4.N1” by Beth Sherman, in Variant Lit
“The Weather is Perfect” by Ani King, in Fictive Dream
“Recommendations” by Kim Magowan, in New World Writing Quarterly
“Homework: Lessons in Forgetting” by Andi Myles, in Chestnut Review
“The Day Before She Leaves” by Jane O’Sullivan, in Ricochet an anthology of microlit
“No Place Like a Kaleidoscope” by Pegah Ouji, in Emerge Literary Journal
“The Golden Hours” by Linda M. Bayley, in Frazzled Lit
“99 Bottles of Beer on the Floor” by Linda M. Bayley, in BULL
“A fire of her own” by Pegah Ouji, in Your Impossible Voice
“Hayoula” by Pegah Ouji, in Peatsmoke Journal
“I’ll Be Waiting” by Ani King, in Peatsmoke Journal
“Peonies” by Ani King, in wigleaf
“Falconry” by Beth Sherman, in JMWW
“Cursed” by Beth Sherman, in WestWord
“Husks” by Beth Sherman, in Grey Sparrow Journal
“Yes, There Was An Incident At The Giant Foam Block Mountain” by Timothy Goodwin, in HAD
“The Engagement Party” by Swetha Amit, in Afterimages
“Relic” by Beth Sherman, in Ginosko Literary Journal (page 110)
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.