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 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 October 2025, more than 30 publications were reported 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!

Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers! 

“Fruiting Bodies” by Timothy Boudreau, in Pinch (subscribe to Pinch HERE)
“The HOA rules don’t apply” by Amy Cipolla Barnes, in Ghost Parachute
“My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar” by Kim Magowan, in Ghost Parachute
“The Procedure” by Lauren Kardos, in Cold Signal
“Margaret, Mark, Manish and Makali” by Frances Gapper, in Pangyrus
“Ride to Nowhere” by Stephanie Reddoch, in The Citron Review
“Sense of Lost” by Johannah Simon, in Nobody Thoughts: A Literary Magazine
“Monstrous” by Heidi Kasa, in Pinch
“Plus One” by Jen Bryant, in Five Minutes
“Black-Red” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Fictive Dream
“The Ocean, the Ocean” by Nora Esme Wagner, in Monkeybicycle
“We Won’t Ever Be Young Again” by Pam Avoledo, in Five on the Fifth
“My Baby Fights Sleep The Way My Father Fights Death” by Danielle Zaccagnino, in Painted Pebble Lit Mag
“The River Bursts its Banks” by Belinda Rowe, in Unbroken
“Flying the Nest” by Belinda Rowe, in Literary Namjooning
“St. Mary’s Call Room 403” by Michelle Morouse, in Burningword
“Goblin Toe” by Lauren Kardos, in Gone Lawn
“What we talk about when we want to talk about Fight Club” by Lauren Kardos, in Milk Candy Review
“Tongue Tied” by Lauren Kardos, in Fictive Dream
“The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos, in Flash Fiction Online
“1981 Land Cruiser” by Julia Gilmour, in Remington Review
“Maybe I even remembered the carrots” by Allison Field Bell, in Emerge Literary Journal
“Before I Forget” by Jaime Gill, in Neon & Smoke
“Out of Season” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in Fractured Lit
“Adopting from Foster Care in Eighteen Easy Steps” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in Pithead Chapel
“The Field Where We Used to Play” by Pam Avoledo, in Blood+Honey
“Warrior” by Pam Avoledo, in Unlikely Stories
“The Queen of North Street” by Pam Avoledo, in suddenly, and without warning
“A Normal Kid” by James Keith Smith, in Bending Genres
“Survival Instincts” by Christina Tudor, in The Molotov Cocktail
“Ghost Girl Delivery” by Christina Tudor, in The Citron Review
“African Milk Plant” by Allison Field Bell, in The Masters Review