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 (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 July, our workshop participants reported 27 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 July, no worries. Simply report them in August. Simples.

Registration to join SmokeLong Fitness on August 1st is open now! You can find out more about SmokeLong Fitness HERE.

Please help us celebrate the following authors and their recent publications!

“Moral Twilight” by Max Talley, in Literary Garage
“Losing Pressure” by Mary Magdalen Smihula, in Across the Margin
“Odyssey Drive” by Mary Magdalen Smihula, in Leon Literary Review
“Second Chances” by Robin Kalota, in Brilliant Flash Fiction (scroll down)
“Say Your Father is Dying” by Robin Kalota, in Claudine
‘“Guangzhou Sees First Snow In 67 Years” – China Daily, January 24, 2016’ by Jaime Gill, in New Writers, 100-Word Writing Competition 2026. First Prize £1,000 Winner!
“Afterwards, Gretel Calls It God’s Way of Telling Her to Be an Architect” by Chris Cottom, in The Broadkill Review
“Fly Bars, Catch Traps and Taking Off” by Chris Cottom, in Eunoia Review
“Searching for God in a Mosh Pit” by Mario Aliberto III, in The Masters Review, Flash Challenge Winner!
“Annaliese Dreams of Her Lost Fiancé and the Night the Hostel Closed Forever” by Chris Cottom, in matchbook
“The Habit is You” by Kim Magowan, in New World Writing Quarterly
“on family splintering: a meditation” by Shira Musicant, in Claudine
“This is Not a Pipe” by Lauren Kardos, in Stanchion Magazine, Issue 23
“Crusader Knights of Carshalton” by Chris Cottom, in Free Flash Fiction, shortlisted
“On Her Way to the Corner Store To Buy Another Bottle of Wine” by Kim Magowan, in Fictive Dream
“Fa, A Long Long Way to Run” by Mary Magdalen Smihula, in BULL
“Sugar Tits” by Marijean Oldham, in Neither Fish Nor Foul
“Levy’s Fine Jewelry on Oxmoor Road” by Ashton Russell, in Fictive Dream
“Breeding Season” by Marijean Oldham, in South Florida Poetry Journal (scroll down)
“My Mother is the Last Cigarette in the Pack” by Marijean Oldham, in Cleaver
“Perfect Day, Downtown Brooklyn” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in The Disappointed Housewife
“Joanne, Where Do You Think You’re Going in That Dress?” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Does It Have Pockets?
“Chuck and Dave Road Trip to Home Depot” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Emerge Literary Journal
“Mine. Craft.” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Variety Pack
“Grand Canyon” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Flash Boulevard
“I Guess This Makes Us Cat People” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in Flash Boulevard (scroll down)
“Not Like Us” by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, in TSS Publishing