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 June 2025, 15 publications were reported to us! That’s amazing!
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“Divine Intervention” by Coleman Bigelow in Trash Cat Lit
“Body and Soul” by Kim Magowan in MoonPark Review
“What To Do If Someone Tries To Tell You Bad News” by Kim Magowan in Fractured Lit
“I Like to Watch” by Johannah Simon in Underbelly Press
“Settle and Slake” by Mikki Aronoff in CRAFT
“Screwdriver” by Allison Field Bell in River Teeth
“Robin Hood Makes A Pit Stop At Winn Dixie” by Susan Israel in Switch: A Magazine of Microfiction
“Seeking Companionship” by Coleman Bigelow in 101 Words
“After the Ball” by Mikki Aronoff in West Word (First Prize Fairy Tale Flash Competition)
“The Bright Jars of Our Bodies” by Sara Hills in Flash Frog
“Our Daughters Never Seem to Come Home to Us” by Ani King in Flash Flood
“This is Milkweed” by Ani King in Exposition Review
“One Day Her Prince Will Come” by Chris Cottom in Flash Flood
“Mother Perfect” by Linda M. Bayley in Trash Cat Lit
“My Flatweave Flatmate” by Chris Cottom in Free Flash Fiction
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.