SmokeLong Quarterly

We are so inspired by our workshop participants. 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 reaches 300. We are big on workshopping; if you are too, JOIN US.

For September, we’ve listed the publications our participants have reported to us below with links when available. 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 40 publications in/around September! 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 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.

The following list is comprised of narratives that began in a SmokeLong Workshop, were subsequently published, and were reported to us in September 2024. Please browse the titles below and click on a few that invite you in. They are in chronological order.

“Rock Heart” (forthcoming) by Kim Magowan
“Pygmalion” (forthcoming) by Elizabeth Rosen
“Uniform” Marijean Oldham
“Watch Out for Deer” by Ani King
“Summerland®” by Ani King
“The Sounds of Summer Camp” by Ani King
“Because Douglas” by Pam Avoledo
“After Too Much Wine at Our Wedding, I Tell My Pro-Choice Husband Everything” by Dawn Miller
“Fee Fee’s Curse” by Elizabeth Rosen
“It Could Have Been A Moose” by Salena Casha
“The Frog Pond” by Abby Manzella
“Gladiator” by Travis Flatt
‘“Lived Happily Ever After” Currently Out of Stock; Select a Different Ending’ by Anne Anthony
“Almanac” by Travis Flatt
“The Tide House” by Travis Flatt
‘Aunt Sadie Holds Forth on “Boy Trouble” After You Tell Her Jimmy Wouldn’t Stop Staring at Your Boobs in Chemistry Class’ by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
“As Kites Have A Want To Do” by Glenn Orgias
“I, Flaco” (print) by Beth Sherman
“A list of places my father and I look for birds” by Beth Sherman
“There’s a Spill in Aisle 12” (print) by Beth Sherman
“Is That All There Is?” Frances Gapper
“Soames Forsyte Contemplates the River at Mapledurham” by Frances Gapper
“Parole Day, Acrylic on Canvas” by Ani King
“Breaking” by Emily Rinkema
“Driving my Seven-Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother at Rehab” by Emily Rinkema
“Don’t Talk to Strangers” by Beth Sherman
“The View From Here” by Beth Sherman
“The Uglier Stepsister Never Learned to Make Sponge Cake” by Beth Sherman
“Sorry About the Broken Fence” Ani King
“The 250th Annual Radishtown Day Summer Parade” by Ani King
“After the Arch Fell” by Marijean Oldham
“Ten Roman Miles” by Patience Mackarness
“Crystalline” by Beth Sherman
“Bad Behaviour” by Glenn Orgias
“Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” by Glenn Orgias
“Axolotl Soup” by Glenn Orgias
“Mother-mother, Wasp-mother” by Ani King

*Sounds off but is probably really tasty.