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 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.
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 (award in January 2026). Or maybe you published something in 2024 that started in A SmokeLong Summer 22 but are just now reading about this competition. Let us know. The only limitations are that your work must be published before the deadline in December 25 and it must have begun in a SmokeLong workshop.
We are thrilled that 21 publications have been reported to us through Submittable this month! Anything reported to us today (Jan 30) or tomorrow will be added to February’s list.
Please help us celebrate these talented writers and literary journals, who continue to amaze us:
The floor beneath my feet by Swetha Amit, in HAD
The Last Laugh by M. Lea Gray, in Fractured Lit
Take My Hand by M. Lea Gray, in ROOM
Blemished Plums by Margo Griffin, in Bright Flash Literary Review
Take Two Lies for the Pain by Margo Griffin, in Roi Fainéant Literary Press
Nana Won’t Rise Up from the Dead by Margo Griffin, in literally stories
Milk Teeth, Mother Teeth by Ani King, in Waxwing
Thanks for the Ride by Ani King, in MoonPark Review
Horsegirl by Ani King, in Messy Misfits Club: Volume 6, Filth
Let Me Pretend by Marilyn Duarte, in BULL
Lemons by Allison Field Bell, in The Ex-Puritan
The Word Disorder by Allison Field Bell, in Craft
A Second Mother by Shira Musicant, Fourth Genre
On a Bed in the Holiday Inn Express by Shira Musicant, Santa Barbara Literary Journal
Forever After by Shira Musicant, Santa Barbara Literary Journal
Gretel by Jane O’Sullivan, Hex
Viewer Discretion Advised by Katherine Plumhoff, BULL
Connective Tissue by Julie Lambert, Short Reads
Let Us Pray by Frances Orrok, wigleaf
When the Dalai Lama Forgives Your Human Failures as a Best Friend by Elizabeth Rosen, 10 By 10 Flash
The Impossibility of Katrina by Elizabeth Rosen, Roi Fainéant Literary Press
