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 you 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 November 2025, our workshop participants reported more than 40 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.
Have you signed up for Promptember? It’s free, and work that you start there is eligible for The SmokeLong Workshop Prize! And why not sign up to try SmokeLong Fitness in January and February? Community works. Kumbaya. We are not a cult.
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“One Nighter” by Liz deBeer, in BULL
“The Giant Squid” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Centaur
“The Audience” by Pam Avoledo, in Literary Garage
“Here I Am” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in Claudine
“Hellsite” by Jane O’Sullivan, in Island
“I dreamt I orbited high above the deepest reaches of the Earth’s core where Wisdom winters” by Arti Jain, in Flash Flood
“Keepsake” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Cowboy Jamboree Magazine & Press
“Bullets are not circles but they leave circles behind” by Cole Beauchamp, in BULL
“1989: Every day is the same in East Berlin, until it’s not” by Cole Beauchamp, in Does It Have Pockets?
“The things Shauna never knows, the things she does” by Cole Beauchamp, in trampset
“Triple-Digit Fire Weather” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Nothing Is Wrong with Him” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Emerge Literary Journal
“You Stupid Kid” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Roi Fainéant Literary Press
“So Tightly Wound” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Atlas & Alice
“Bra Shopping” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
“What they don’t understand is, getting used to the pronouns is the hardest part” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Moonpark Review
“The Election Goes Badly” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in The Forge Literary Magazine
“Girl, You Ain’t Missing Nothing” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“David as Toaster” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in JMWW
“You were supposed to find me, not get eaten” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Ghost Parachute
“The Menopausal Woman can’t understand why anyone would want to be a woman if they didn’t have to” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Sundog Lit
“Why You Start Drawing Again” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Fictive Dream
“Sex In Public: A Triptych” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Ghost Parachute
“Détente” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Lascaux Review
“What Moon Wouldn’t Give” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, in Ink Fish Magazine
“Quantifying the Dent of Bob” by Andrea Bishop, in The Masters Review
“Working with Blanks” by Andrea Bishop, in Cleaver
“Headline News” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Eckleburg
“Our Goldfinch Math Doesn’t Add Up” by Andrea Bishop, in Peatsmoke Journal
“Horatio Should Not Leave The Party With Ophelia” by Timothy C. Goodwin, in Bottle Rocket
“Green to Gray” by Belinda Rowe, in Fractured Lit
“The Climb” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, in The Citron Review
“Shopping List” by Christine H. Chen, in RUBY
“Dance of the Dragons” by Christine H. Chen, in Unbroken
“Cadillacs on the Moon” by Travis Flatt, in Dishsoap Quarterly
“Me and Barnaby, Alone” by Travis Flatt, in New Flash Fiction Review
“We Are Dingo Pack” by Belinda Rowe, in WestWord
“How Lady Bai’s First Human Husband Disappeared” by Christine H Chen, in Gone Lawn
“Anatomy of a Pencil” by Christine H. Chen, in Does It Have Pockets?
“They Start by Banning Indigo” by Chris Cottom, in Free Flash Fiction
“Holidays in the Yard” by Jaye Frisina, in 50-Word Stories
“Not Where You Eat” by Johannah Simon, in Citywide Lunch
