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 (awarded 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 now. The only limitations are that your work must be published before the deadline in December each year, 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 March, our workshop participants reported 12 publications to us! And this list is always a good place to start if you’re looking for places to publish your own work. If you missed the deadline to enter this year’s competition, no worries! The reading period for the 2026 competition is now open!
Need community? SmokeLong Fitness is SmokeLong’s year-round community workshop, and you can now sign up for A SmokeLong Summer 26 until May 23rd! This year our theme is The Global Flash Village. We’ll be exploring community through writing tasks in our peer-review workshop, collaborative writing, and hybrid events with flash communities around the globe. And we’re thrilled that Amy Hempel will be joining us for a SmokeLong Master Series reading and interview!
Please help us celebrate these writers and their publications!
”Punctuation” by Johannah Simon, in Neon & Smoke
“othering” by Andrea Damic, in Blood + Honey
“A Break from the Sky” by Chip Houser, in Backchannels (first place win!)
“Bedswerver” by Johannah Simon, in Some Words
“Water Under” by Linda M. Bayley, in Fictive Dream
“After They Ban Flowers” by Chris Cottom, in New World Writing Quarterly
“Dad Scoffs When I Get the Monastery for Work Experience” by Chris Cottom, in New World Writing Quarterly
“One Hat Wonder” by Chris Cottom, in New World Writing Quarterly
“Maybe You’re There, Hidden In The Pink House” by Johannah Simon, in Broken Hearts Gallery Literary
“Marching Orders” by Linda M. Bayley, in BULL
“The House of Hope and Mercy” by Chris Cottom, in The Orange Rose
“Danse Macabre” by Lauren Kardos, in The Bulb Region
