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 2026 (awarded in January 2027). 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 September, our workshop participants reported more than 25 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 September, no worries. Simply report them in October. Simples.

Registration for Promptember is open until October 10th. Promptember is free.

Please help us celebrate the following publications in September!

“The Retired Men’s Maintenance Club” by Chris Cottom, in Bright Flash Literary Review
“Hide and Seek” by Arti Jain, in The Bare Bones Book of Speculative Fiction (print)
“A Good Scratch” by Madison Ellingsworth, in Fictive Dream
“Chicken” by Madison Ellingsworth, in Ghost Parachute
“Mock Interview” by Coleman Bigelow, in Claudine
“Tu Sangre en mi Cuerpo” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in BULL
“On Loan” by Georgene Smith Goodin, in little somethings press Motherhood Anthology (print)
“Watercolor of a Family at the Beach on an Overcast Day” by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, in Claudine
“Whenever I Felt Tummy-Sick About Monday Mental Maths” by Chris Cottom, in The Hoolet’s Nook
“When the Shrooms Don’t Work and It’s Time to Go Home” by Linda M. Bayley, in Turn&Work
“Itch” by Linda M. Bayley, in BULL
“Dry Docked” by Johannah Simon, in Rat Bag Lit
“La Toilette” by Johannah Simon, in Three Panel Press
“We are One (Ole Ola)” by Johannah Simon, in Major 7th Magazine
“Zepbound & Gagged” by Johannah Simon, dissolution: poems at the edge of disappearance (print)
“Teflon” by Johannah Simon, in serious-lit
“The Obligation” by Johannah Simon, in Paragraph Planet
“The Witnesses” by Jennifer Fox, in Identity Theory
“Disappointed by Gravity” by Susan Fuchtman, in Moon City Review 2026 (print)
“Parts” by Allison Field Bell, in CRAFT
“Could Have Said No” by Allison Field Bell, in Milk Candy Review
“Wind Tunnel” by Allison Field Bell, in Outskirts Literary Journal
“Michelangelo of Morecambe” by Chris Cottom, in Free Flash Fiction
“Dearest Marjorie: A Quest to Undertake on Your Thirtreenth Birthday” by Belinda Rowe, in MoonPark Review
“His Eye is on the Sparrow” by Lindsey James, in Lost Balloon
“The Time Will Come” by Coleman Bigelow, in MoonPark Review
“We Cannot Be Saved” by Pegah Ouji, in Gone Lawn
“Stronger Than a Tornado” by Pegah Ouji, in Ghost Parachute