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 August, our workshop participants reported more than 20 publications to us! This list is always a good place to start if you’re looking for places to publish your own work.
If you’re in a SmokeLong workshop (or you have been), and you’re kicking yourself because you didn’t report your success(es) in August, no worries. Simply report them in September. Simples.
Registration to join SmokeLong Fitness on October 1st is open now! You can find out more about SmokeLong Fitness HERE.
Please help us celebrate the following authors and their recent publications!
“Maw Maw’s Cheeseballs” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Raleigh Review
“I Muse about Six Feet Under as I Wait to Speak at Your Funeral” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Anit-Heroin Chic
“My Mother’s Shame” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Anti-Heroin Chic
“Ten Things I Didn’t Do When I Suspected My Marriage Was Over” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Every Day Fiction
“Nagoro” by Elizabeth Rosen, in F(r)iction #26 (print)
“Energy Dissipating Capsule” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Fictive Dream
“A Hellava Good Story” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Sky Island Journal
“Sasha” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Sky Island Journal
“CornHell” by Coleman Bigelow, in Turn & Work
“Three Wishes and a Secret” by Lauren Kardos, in HAD
“Chruściki” by Lauren Kardos, in Does It Have Pockets?
“Animal Husbandry” by Chris Cottom, in The Good Life Review
“Ship in a Bottle” by Katherine Silver-Hajo, in Ghost Parachute
“Chapel of Dreams” by Chris Cottom, in Ellipsis Zine
“A Vowel” by Laura Nagle, in 50-Word Stories
“Thank you for your application to be a figurehead” by Chris Cottom, in Macrame Literary journal
“Be My Everything” by Chris Cottom, in Painted Pebble Lit Mag
“Next They Ruled That Only Men Could Wear Buttons” by Chris Cottom, in Tiny Molecules
“Heifer, Milk & Mango” by Stan J Wild, in Wallstrait
“YOLO” by Nora Nadjarian, in Claudine
“Join the Dots” by Nora Nadjarian, in Okay Donkey
“All our earthly possessions” by Nora Nadjarian, in Bath Flash Fiction Award
“Was and Wasn’t” by Nora Nadjarian, in The Pride Roars
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.