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.
Please join us in celebrating these SmokeLong workshop participants who reported their publications to us in February. We couldn’t be more thrilled for them.
“Haineko (Grey Cat)” by Linda Bayley, shortlisted for The Welkin Prize
“Red, Red God” by Linda Bayley, in Roi Fainéant
“On a High Note” by Travis Flatt, in Sky Island Journal
“The World According to My Grandmother” by Pegah Ouji, in AAWW
“The Devil Alive in Jersey” by Catherine Buck, in CRAFT
“When Not Knowing Is More Important Than Wanting to Know” by Elizabeth Rosen, in Harpur Palate Literary Journal
“No Promises” by Allison Field Bell, in Chestnut Review
“Hide ‘N Seek” by Swetha Amit, in Ghost Parachute
“This is Not a Horror Film, But if it Were…” by Jaime Gill, in trampset
“Gentle” by Lauren Kardos, in Lost Balloon
“Verses for Very Young Children” by Jane O’Sullivan, in Ghost Parachute
“Saturday Girl” by France Gapper, in Fictive Dream
“There Isn’t Much Left” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in RAW LIT
“Sacred Rock” by Kleopatra Olympiou, in Tiny Molecules
“The Pit” by Jane O’Sullivan, in Bending Genres
“Her Body a Birdcage” by Shira Musicant, in Blue Earth Review (print)
“Coyote Girl” by Ani King, in Fictive Dream
“Why We Can’t Lose Weight” by Mikki Aronoff, in Does it Have Pockets?
“I Dial a Random Number to Complain” by Mikki Aronoff, in unbroken
“Husband, In My Dream” by Frances Gapper, in Your Impossible Voice
