SmokeLong Quarterly

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 (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 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 August 2025, more than 20 publications were reported to us! That’s amazing!

Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers! 

 

“(again)” by Kim Magowan, in Centaur
“Boy Cries Out” by Shira Musicant, in Milk Candy Review
“This Is What You Don’t Understand” by Jaime Gill, in Martial Arts Magazine Australia
“In This Skin” by Jaime Gill, in Sky Island Journal, Issue 32
“What Kind of Country” by Allison Field Bell, in Ghost Parachute
“Below Zero Days” by Allison Field Bell, in Stanchion
“Ten Years After Mom Left, and It’s Jazz Night at the Hideaway” by Dawn Miller, in Ghost Parachute
“Organ Donor” by Amy Cipolla Barnes, in The Rumpus
“Philosophical Reflections Last Saturday in Luke’s Basement” by Kim Magowan, in Tiny Molecules
“When the Tearing Comes, If It Comes” by Abby Manzella, in The Forge Literary Magazine
“Snails Are People Too” by Tracie Adams, in Fictive Dream
“A Bed as a Temple of Healing” by Tracie Adams, in Instant Noodles
“For the Love of Hot Mustard” by Tracie Adams, in Dishsoap Quarterly
“The Time Loop is not a Metaphor” by Tracie Adams, in Stanchion
“Preserves” by Kelly Pedro, in Tahoma Literary Review
“Daguerreotype” by Joel Tomfohr, in Bending Genres
“Super8” by Joel Tomfohr, in Bending Genres
“When the Guy Who Played Deadpool Was My AA Sponsor” by Mario Aliberto III, in Maudlin House
“Her Face, The Grand Central Ceiling” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in FLIPHTML5
“Inside the Bore” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in The Orange Rose
“As Painted by Degas” by Frances Gapper, in Fictive Dream
“Back in Business” by Chris Cottom, in Fictive Dream
“Newton’s Laws of Childhood” by Lenny Eusebi, in Flash Flood