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 January and February, our workshop participants reported more than 25 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. 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 start at the beginning of any month.
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“She Calls Him Tugger After the Cat in That Musical” by Linda M. Bayley in Trash Cat Lit
“Love In the Time of Bird Flu” by Gill O’Halloran, first place WestWord Prize 2025
“Oliver Nelson and the Pig Dissection” by Amy Allen, in Ghost Parachute
“Whalesong” by Amy Allen, in Unbroken
“Second Novel is the Hardest” by Shira Musicant, in Trash Cat Lit
“Best Bit – The Last Waltz” by Chris Cottom, in Flash Frontier
“Lily” by Chris Cottom, in O:JA&L
“Where the Apple Reddens” by Chris Cottom, Free Flash Fiction (highly commended)
“How to Keep Yourself from Floating All the Way Up” by Kim Magowan, in FRiGG
“Now Are You Sorry?” by Kim Magowan, in FRiGG
“I Spy” by Kim Magowan, in FRiGG
“The day they bomby the art gallery” by Belinda Rowe, in Flash the Court
“Holding Back” by Andrea Damic, in Ghost Parachute
“Cold Turkey” by Johannah Simon, in Dodo Eraser
“Broke” by Johannah Simon, in Blood+Honey
“Marnie Fish Casserole” by Karen Walker, in Blood+Honey
“Pineapple Old Fashioned Fuck Off” by Johannah Simon, in Electric Pink
“Motherhood” by Allison Field Bell, in Pithead Chapel
“Maybe Water” by Allison Field Bell, in New Delta Review
“Sometimes Grief is a Moonrise” by Allison Field Bell, in Fractured Lit
“Siouxsie, Susan, Robert and Me” by Jaime Gill, in The Missouri Review
“Dad Served Thirty Years as a Career Cumulonimbus” by Chris Cottom, in Bending Genres
“My Neighbor Pays Me $100 to Dress Up Like His Dead Daughter” by Christina Tudor, in BULL
“Dad Jokes” by Christina Tudor, in BULL
“Cat Can’t Live on the Moon” by Lauren Kardos, in Crow & Cross Keys
“First Date” by Jaime Gill, in Hunger Mountain
In its third year, The March Micro Marathon will be, as usual, a prompt-a-day whirlwind for 24 days. You’ll exchange drafts of micro fiction, non-fiction, and prose poetry in small groups and gather for a series of online events (all recorded for participants unable to attend live). We’ll finish with 3 competitions, and participants who are not already in SmokeLong Fitness will be invited to workshop with SmokeLong Fitness until the end of April!