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.
Help us celebrate these recent publications! Onward, Trousers!
“Pack” by Dawn Miller, published in Bath Flash Fiction (second place, February 2025)
“Mother of Pearl” by Dawn Miller, published in The Forge Literary Journal, winner of the 2024 Forge Flash Fiction Competition
“It Never Really Happened” by Jaime Gill, published in New Flash Fiction Review
“The Bodega Was the Only Thing Left Standing” by Elizabeth Rosen, published in Door is A Jar Literary Journal
“Something Out of a Horror Movie” by Mario Aliberto III, published in Milk Candy Review
“This Used to be a Story about a Raccoon, but Now it’s an Obituary” by Ani King, published in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
“Nervous Thing” by Ani King, published in Pithead Chapel
“The Fire” by Swetha Amit, published in Monkeybicycle
“Understanding” by Kim Magowan, published in BULL
“Ontkommer” by Kim Magowan, published in Aquifer, The Florida Review online
“Golden Child” by Elizabeth Rosen, published in Gone Lawn
“Sail On, Valhallan” by Travis Flatt, published in Variant Literature
“Buried Treasure” by Lauren Voeltz, published in Suddenly, and Without Warning
“Eating Out” by Sara Hills, published in Fictive Dream
“Like Dynamite” by Sara Hills, published in Bath Flash Fiction (first prize, February 2025)
“Imagine a Chill Breeze” by Lauren Kardos, published in Folklore Review
“Serpentine” by Beth Sherman, published in Hemlock Journal (page 95)
“Chokeberry” by Beth Sherman, published in Barren Magazine
“Cans” by Beth Sherman, published in Flash Boulevard
“Delinquent” by Ani King, published in Flash Boulevard
“Instead you raised a fire” by Ani King, published in Flash Boulevard
“Flick” by Ani King, published in Flash Boulevard
“Rehab, Take Three” by Angela James, published in Pithead Chapel
“Davey Should Be More Like His Brother” by Shira Musicant, published in BULL
“Gravity & Departure” by Shira Musicant, published in BULL
The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.