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 May and June, our workshop participants reported almost 30 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!
Registration to join SmokeLong Fitness, the year-round community workshop of SmokeLong, starts July 1st to begin August 1st. You can find out more about SmokeLong Fitness HERE.
Please help us celebrate the following authors and their recent publications!
“Chupícuaro Woman, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac” by Laura Nagle, in HAD
“Sua Sponte” by Johannah Simon, in luckycreature
“Red Saturday” by Shira Musicant, in Flash in the Court
“One Mississippi” by Linda M. Bayley, in Temple in a City
“Making Room” by Elizabeth Ohga, in Your Impossible Voice
“Falling Flat” by Chris Cottom, in The Woolf
“15 Millions Dollars for a Lake House” by Johannah Simon, in Spirit Lake Review (p.100)
“There, I Said It” by Johannah Simon, in Redamancy Magazine
“Waiting for Halley’s Comet Again” by Kara Kahnke, in Flash in the Court
“When Dad Moves in with Auntie Carly It’s Time for Votive Offerings” by Chris Cottom, in New Flash Fiction Review
“It’s just like that storybook she once read to me” by Lauren Kardos, in Flash Boulevard
“Inheritance” by Lauren Kardos, in Flash Boulevard (scroll down)
“When We’re Ready We’ll Start Over by Opening a Bakeshop” by Chris Cottom, in Barrelhouse
“Thank you for applying to be my courtly lover” by Chris Cottom, in Flash Flood
“Senioritis” by Shira Musicant, in BULL
“What a Solitary Bird Drifting on the Wind Might Have Witnessed When the Boy Disappeared” by Katherine Silver-Hajo, in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (First Place winner 2026 of the Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition)
“At the Margin” by Andrea Damic, in Flash Flood
“When Dad takes early retirement, he says he should never have been a dentist anyway” by Chris Cottom, in Orange Blossom Review
“No Obits” by Jaime Gill, in Pithead Chapel
“Full Circle, Perfect Square” by Jaime Gill, in dugout, An Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology (highly commended)
“Wet Brain” by Jaime Gill, in dugout, An Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology (highly commended)
“Jack the Zoo” in Mudlarking, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2026
“Rescue Worker’s Notes for the ‘Forever Paws’ Animal Shelter” by Katherine Silver-Hajo, in The Dribble Drabble Review (scroll down)
“How the Story Goes” by Marilyn Duarte, in Vestal Review
“At school, the other girls loved Paul, or sometimes John” by Chris Cottom, in Pink Ocre Magazine
“Rewind, Rewind” by Linda M. Bayley, in Flash Flood
“Just the Kid Who Throws the Ball” by Linda M. Bayley, in Stanchion
“The Lonely Swing” by Linda M. Bayley, in Stanchion Magazine Issue 23
“How to Cook Lamb When All You Can Think Of Is Death” by Linda M. Bayley, in Raw Lit
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.