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 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 25 and it must have been drafted in a SmokeLong workshop.
In June 2025, over 20 publications were reported to us! That’s amazing!
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“It’s Not The End Of The World” by Jaime Gill, in Fictive Dream
“All You Need” by Mikki Aronoff, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Feathered Friend” by MaxieJane Frazier, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“starlings” by Frances Gapper, in Flash Flood
“The Coachman’s Forgiveness” by Jaye Frisina, in Flash Flood
“Circle Dance” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in Flash Flood
“A Fence for Christmas” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in Monsoon, the UK National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025
“Kimo” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, in Does It Have Pockets?
“Cumulonimbus” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, in The McNeese Review
“St. Louis Blues” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, in Flash Flood
“The Line of Defense” by Robin Kalota, in Hotch Potch Literature and Art
“Peak Season” by Sara Hills, in Monsoon, the UK National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025
“Growing Block Universe Theory of Time” by Kristi Ferguson, in Whale Road Review
“You Know Tina’s Family’s the Reason We Broke Up” by Kristi Ferguson, in Roi Fainéant Literary Press
“Mother ESP” by Kristi Ferguson, in JMWW
“What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Susan Israel, in The Bloomin’ Onion
“Pineapples” by Kelly Pedro, in JMWW
“Wax Figures” by Kelly Pedro, in Ghost Parachute
“Successful Auditions for the Roles of Colleen’s Dearly Departed” by Timothy Boudreau, in BlueStem
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, in Variant Literature
“Gallery” by Jane O’Sullivan, in Okay Donkey
“Break Point” by Coleman Bigelow, in Flash Flood
Read more about SmokeLong Fitness, the year-round community workshop of SmokeLong, HERE.
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.