We are constantly amazed by our workshop participants. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear on social media about one or more of them publishing their work. SmokeLong hosts webinars, intensive workshops, and the largest community workshop in flash, SmokeLong Fitness, with around 150 current participants. During A SmokeLong Summer and The March Micro Marathon, this number often swells to 300. We are passionate about workshopping; if you are too, JOIN US. We are arguably not a cult.
For November, we’ve listed the publications our participants have reported to us below with links to the narratives. Reading through these publications is also a great way to get an impression of journals publishing flash. The variety is astounding.
We’re excited to share that our participants have published almost 50 publications in/around November 2024! And these are just the people who took the time to let us know. Remember that if you participate in any SmokeLong workshop and subsequently get something published that you started in that workshop, you are eligible to enter The SmokeLong Workshop Prize (on our Submittable page)–and you might just win $500. That’s some sweet cherry gravy* on top! This competition is free to enter, so please do let us know about your successes (always once the narrative has been published). We are rooting for you. This one’s on us. The future deadline for this competition will be December 31 for publications on or before December 15. For example, let’s say you took part in a SmokeLong intensive workshop in 2020 and are just now finding out about The SmokeLong Workshop Prize. If you ended up publishing something you started in that workshop, let us know. The reading period for the 2025 competition will begin January 1.
We are now devouring the almost 300 publications reported to us in 2024 and plan to have a long list of stories before Christmas.
The following list is comprised of narratives that began in a SmokeLong workshop, were subsequently published, and were reported to us in November 2024. Please browse the titles below and click on a few that invite you in. They are in chronological order as they were submitted to SmokeLong.
Please help us celebrate these SmokeLong Fitness participants’ publications…
“Good for a Dead Girl” by Beth Sherman
“Cloud Seeding” by Sandra Khalil
“Cedars of God” by Sandra Khalil
“Rabbit Rabbit, Kiai!” by Ani King
“Excerpts from my Zombie Diary” by Tracie Adams
“Sibling Rivalry” by Kelly Pedro
“Ghosts of Autumns Past” by Tracie Adams
“Stump” by Sudha Balagopal
“Load-Shedding” by Sudha Balagopal
“We Have Little Time Left” by Sudha Balagopal
“Sway” by Barbara Diggs
“Mr. Polaski Always Said” by Mario Aliberto III
“Clean Floors” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
“Rules Keep You Safe” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
“Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog” by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
“Gone Fishing” by Amy Barnes
“The Kintsugi Workshop Where I Mend My Heart” by Fiona McKay
“Wa(i)ver” by Fiona McKay
“You Almost Never Walk Anywhere with your Father Now” by Fiona McKay
“Fulfilling” by Fiona McKay
“The Cure for Sleep” by Linda Bayley
“A Car, a Bank, a Bowling Alley” by Linda Bayley
“You Are What You Eat” by Barbara Diggs
“Fire Therapy” by Sandy Krausnick
“Lil Fucker” by Sara Hills
“A Cock Among the Bathers” by Sara Hills
“Choose Your Animal” by Sara Hills
“Childhood Rhymes” by Jane O’Sullivan
“You, Visitor” by Jane O’Sullivan
“Good Girls” by Martha Keller
“There Were Two Options; We Could All Go, or I Could Leave Them Behind” by Sandra Khalil
“Herd Mentality” by Jessica Klimesh
“Almost Human” by Jessica Klimesh
“Would You Rather Freeze to Death or Burn to Death?” by Jessica Klimesh
“Breaking” by Jessica Klimesh
“Recipe for an Unfinished Book” by Matt Lehman Wiens
“Bereavement Fare” by Amy Barnes
“Miss Texas Considers Talking about her Tooth” by Corey Miller
“Naming the Shit that has to Die” by Corey Miller
“’What about Mummy’s saris?’ I ask my father after thirty years” by Arti Jain
“Yeti and the Sewing Machine” by Arti Jain
“Questions Frida Kahlo wanted to ask but painted ‘The Love Embrace, the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Senor Xoloti’ instead” by Arti Jain
“But before you ask how to eat a mango, learn how to choose one” by Arti Jain
“Lemons” by Allison Field Bell
“Mermaid” by Allison Field Bell
“The Word Disorder” by Allison Field Bell
“Habit” by Allison Field Bell
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