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 September 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.

Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers! 

“Buckets” by Michelle Ross, in The Masters Review
“Lose, Reject, Discard” by Michelle Ross, in The Forge Literary Magazine
“The Same Impasse” by Michelle Ross, in Ghost Parachute
“Family Patterns: Cyanocitta cristata” by Ani King, in Claudine
“The Thing People Know About Someone Before They Are Formally Introduced” by Kim Magowan, in Ruby
“What Monica’s Husband Doesn’t Understand” by Kim Magowan, in Ruby
“Dead Sea” by Allison Field Bell, in JMWW
“Be the Woman” by Allison Field Bell, in Ruby
“Making Mother Right Again” by Shira Musicant, in Bending Genres
“Hands” by Kara Kahnke, in BULL
“Two Days After Their Mother Dies” by Kim Magowan, in X-R-A-Y
“Impossible Summer” by Jaime Gill, in Free Flash Fiction
“Burned” by Fiona McKay, in The Four Faced Liar (print)
“Reaction Times” by Fiona McKay, in Peatsmoke Journal
“Throw a Six to Start” by Fiona McKay, in Bending Genres
“Pushed” by Fiona McKay, in Fractured Lit
“Zombies” by Fiona McKay, in Frazzled Lit
“Unstable” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“The Spirit and the Pearl” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“Trying” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“Spring Cleaning” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“Under the Sea” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“The Pack” by Fiona McKay, in The Lives of the Dead (Ad Hoc Fiction, print)
“Whoosh!” by Frances Gapper, in Exposition Review (Flash 405 competition honorable mention)
“We Are All Appalled” by Kim Magowan, in Milk Candy Review
“Afternoon Tea in Mandalay” by Jaime Gill, in Neither Fish Nor Foul
“Thursdays Smell Like You” by Ashleigh Adams, in New Flash Fiction Review
“Rebel Girls” by Jen Bryant, in In a Flash
“Shelter” by Jen Bryant, in Cleaver
“Fear is a Memory” by Tammy Evans, in Iceblink Lit
“Parade” by Mikki Aronoff, in A-Minor
“Deer in the Headlights” by Allison Field Bell, in Roi Fainéant
“Tomato Season” by Marijean Oldham, in dipity.