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Submit ReviewNana Nkweti is the author of Walking on Cowrie Shells, a book that spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters. The stories aim to entertain readers while also offering a counterpoint to prevalent “heart of darkness” writing that too often depicts a singular “African” experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.
“Boisterous and high-spirited debut stories by a talented new writer.” - Kirkus Reviews
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This week’s writing prompt: Close your eyes. Imagine your body. Do a complete and full inventory and think of all the things that make you you. Hone in on scars, physical and emotional. Write from the perspective from that scar, or about how you received that scar. Let that scar tell you about yourself and your life.
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Jennifer Craven is the author of All That Shines and Whispers, a re-imagining of what happens after the credits roll on The Sound of Music. The book explores themes of betrayal, sacrifice, consequences, and redemption, set against the backdrop of Nazi-era Europe.
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This week’s writing prompt: Write a story in which you are disconnected from someone society tells you you should inherently be close to. Write how you navigate the distance, remain true to yourself, and explain your choice to those who just don’t understand.
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Marina Carreira is a queer, Luso-American poet artist and the author of Save the Bathwater, a poetry collection, and the curator of Divine Feminist: An Anthology of Poetry and Art by Womxn and Non-binary Folx, both published by Get Fresh Books.
“Her poet soul sings—like a Portuguese saudade—in service to safeguarding what has been lost and what should never be forgotten, “to remember it all—sweat and tears, / Luso ancestry, to run roots through/ my future great-granddaughter’s bones.” — Rigoberto González
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This week’s writing prompt: Where or how do you locate the divine in your own life?
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Kathleen Basi is the author of the new novel, A Song for the Road, a story of a womxn’s healing road trip after profound loss.
"Basi's exquisite, gut-wrenching debut is filled with loss, hope, and secrets.” - Booklist
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This week’s writing prompt: Think of a scene from your WIP. Think about the place where it is set: the smell, the sound, the way it feels on the skin and in your body. Freewrite 3-4 details you can weave into the dialogue that can be evoked in a sentence or two, so that you can weave them into your action.
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Tashie Bhuiyan is the 22-year-old author of Counting Down With You, a YA “own stories” novel about a Bangladeshi teenager who agrees to a fake relationship with her school’s resident bad boy when her parents are out of the country.
"This 'love letter to young brown girls; explores a topic that can be taboo in desi culture: anxiety. Bhuiyan guides Karina through it with care … Hand to fans of Netflix hit Never Have I Ever." - Booklist
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This week’s writing prompt: Look back on one of your childhood medias and think about what you loved so much about it, whether it was a character, a trope, the setting. Then, write your own version of it.
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Cassandra Lane is the author of We Are Bridges, a memoir that explores reclaiming violent family history in order to create a more free future for one’s children.
“In this narrative, Lane seeks an origin story, searching for what facts are available and wondering about the legacy she is passing on. . . . A multiangled exploration of family trauma and the forging of an identity.” — Kirkus Reviews
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This week’s writing prompt: Write about a food you loved as a child. Describe its taste, texture, smell, color, and how it felt in your mouth. Push deeper to unravel what it symbolized for you. What deep cravings does it dredge up even now?
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Ellen Hagan is the author of two new releases: a YA novel in verse called Reckless, Glorious, Girl, and a poetry collection called Blooming Fiascoes. Hagan is also the co-author of Watch Us Rise with Renée Watson.
A gorgeous, inter-generational story of Southern women and a girl's path blossoming into her sense of self, Reckless, Glorious, Girl explores the important questions we all ask as we race toward growing up.
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This week’s writing prompt: Write an Ode poem. Make a list of all the things you really love. Circle one or two that really stand out to you. Write details that help the reader see what you’re writing about, and write what you want to say to that which you love.
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Heather Ostman is the author of the new novel, The Second Chance Home for Girls. Told through three interwoven narrative voices, it’s a story of friendship and freedom, loss and grief, set in a halfway house for troubled teenage girls. She is also the author of the forthcoming Rhetorical Lives, a history of women activists of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
“An atmospheric yet entertaining read with an enigmatic, charismatic hero that will keep readers riveted. This beguiling, slyly subversive tale puts a spiritual mystery at the heart of gritty truths.” - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
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This week’s writing prompt: How can I tell you all that cannot be said?
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Elle Marr is the author of The Lies We Bury, a newly released thriller. She strives to tell powerful and compelling stories of womxn who demonstrate resilience in the face of great obstacles. She is also the author of a 2020 thriller release, The Missing Sister.
“The suspenseful plot is matched by the convincing portrayal of the vulnerable Claire, who just wants to lead a normal life. Marr is a writer to watch.” - Publishers Weekly
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This week’s writing prompt: Write a scene in which a long held secret is revealed over a meal. Is the meal symbolic of the secret? How do your characters digest this new information while consuming their food? Do they even continue eating at all or do the utensils they clutch remain tools of nourishment or become weapons?
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Meg Medina is the author of Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, the sequel to the Newberry-award winning young adult novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears. She is a New York Times bestselling Latina author of books for kids of all ages.
"Medina writes about the joys of multigenerational home life (a staple of the Latinx community) with a touching, humorous authenticity. Merci's relationship with Lolo is heartbreakingly beautiful and will particularly strike readers who can relate to the close, chaotic, and complicated bonds of live-in grandparents. Medina delivers another stellar and deeply moving story." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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This week’s writing prompt: On the top of the page, write “I remember.” Imagine yourself at your favorite age as a kid. Set a timer for six minutes and write a memory you have of that age. After the six minutes, stop, and ask yourself, “Why do I remember this?” And then for two minutes, write and answer that question for yourself.
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adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. Her new book, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, comes out in April. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.
“adrienne maree brown urges us to go deep, sink down, struggle, and swim as we find language, spirit, ourselves, and each other in this time of chaos. I cannot say how grateful I am for this work of poetry and love that makes sense of my/our everyday state of confusion and shows us how we might live abolition—not as an absolute state but as a dynamic motion forward and together.” - Mimi Kim, California State University, Long Beach
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Write a story in which you are being called out or cancelled. Write how you would handle it, how you would want to be treated, how you would want your community to hold you accountable if you had actually done anything harmful or wrong, and what you would hope to be the outcome on the other side of it.
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Amy Solomon is the editor of Notes From The Bathroom Line, an anthology of all new humor pieces (essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more) by 150 womxn and nonbinary writers in comedy.
“The beautiful thing about some books is their time-capsule quality, how they perfectly preserve a cultural moment between two covers. Amy Solomon has created just such a book with Notes From the Bathroom Line, an eclectic mix of writing, art and "low-grade panic," to quote the subtitle, from a large and rowdy cast of very funny women.” - BookPage
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This week’s writing prompt: What’s the story of the time you laughed the hardest?
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Layla AlAmmar is the author of Silence is a Sense, a profound and life-affirming novel that follows a mute Syrian refugee grappling with her experiences during the Syrian Civil War, and as a refugee traveling through Europe as she is gradually and unwillingly drawn into the lives of her neighbors.
“With gut-punching clarity, AlAmmar unpacks the complicated identity of a refugee discovering that safety is not what it seems, as she learns to find her voice in a new home.” - Booklist
Layla AlAmmar is a Kuwaiti-American writer and student of Arab literature, delivering a complex and fluid book about memory, revolution, loss, and safety. AlAmmar’s debut novel, The Pact We Made, was published in 2019. She is currently pursuing a PhD on the intersection of Arab women's fiction and literary trauma theory.
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This week’s writing prompt: Take a pivotal scene in your WIP, or a scene that is giving you trouble, and try to rewrite it in several different ways. For example: straight, a dream or nightmare, someone relaying the scene to another person in a letter, or as a hallucination.
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Patricia Engel is the author of Infinite Country. The novel follows teenager Talia as she and her family grapple with their mixed-immigration statuses, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured - and are enduring right now.
Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family - for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred.
Patricia Engel is also the author of Vida, which won Colombia’s national book award. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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This week’s writing prompt: Write about a time in your life when you did what some people might consider the wrong thing for the right reasons.
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Kate Hope Day is the author of In the Quick, a novel about an ambitious young astronaut whose love affair threatens the rescue of a lost crew.
“I read In the Quick with wonder at the deeply imaginative world Kate Hope Day created. Feminist and thrilling, this novel centers around a precocious, brilliant character named June. I happily followed June into deep space, but I would have followed her anywhere. What a wonderful story. I highly recommend this novel.” - Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
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This week’s writing prompt: Take a page of a piece you’re revising. Skim the page and see what words are hot, and circle those for a few paragraphs. Then make a list of those words, and step away for a few minutes. Come back and read the words again. Set a timer for 10-15 minutes and write about what those words might be telling you about your writing.
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Support the showSonya Renee Taylor is the author of The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, an invitation to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.
“This book took my breath away. It’s an unexpected and urgent embrace of truth.” - Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Dare to Lead
“Through lucid and courageous self-revelation, Taylor shows us how to realize the revolutionary potential of self-love.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt: Imagine yourself as having gotten lost. Using five colors, four items you can see in your house right now, and one faraway location, write yourself a map back to yourself.
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Arianna Davis is the author of What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly, an exploration of the feminist icon’s signature style, outspoken politics, and boldness in love and art, even in the face of pain and heartbreak. She is also the Digital Director at Oprah Magazine.
"A modern take on a woman who was modern beyond her time. Arianna Davis's book paints a colorful picture of the strength, courage, and love that uplifted Frida Kahlo through her many tragedies. This comprehensive look into Frida's life leads me to think that we could all learn a lesson or two from Frida." - Nina Garcia, editor-in-chief of Elle
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This week’s writing prompt: If someone in history who is no longer with us were suddenly with you again, what would you say to them or what message would you want to write down and have them read behind you?
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Isabel Ibañez is the author of Written in Starlight, a YA novel that continues the story of Woven in Moonlight, where Catalina, the rightful heiress to the Inkasisa throne, has been abandoned in the Yanu jungle, and needs to find her way back to her power and her home.
“Packed with growing pains, adventure, and self-realization, Written in Starlight is an important, entertaining tale about community and resistance.” – Foreword Reviews
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This week’s writing prompt: Choose an Enneagram personality type and write about their point of view as they are experiencing a jungle setting on their very first day.
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Stephanie Big Eagle is the author of Thunderbird Rising, a memoir about reconnecting, resilience, and empowerment.
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This week’s writing prompt: What experiences in your own life, whether from a dream, a vision, or everyday reality, had such a profound effect on you that it forever changed your life and your perspective on your identity? How would you describe it so that your audience is there with you in that moment, experiencing it with you, and feeling the shift it created within you?
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Timneisha Greene Kim is the author of Athena’s Quest: A Lesbian’s Quest for Normality, a memoir that explores coming out while being a Christian, and learning self-love and acceptance in the wake of molestation.
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This week’s writing prompt: Write to your younger self about the heroes of the past. Tell your younger self how you are a hero of the present. Do you think your younger self would be proud?
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Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite are sisters and the authors of One of the Good Ones, a young adult novel that explores Blackness and how it relates to white acceptability, through the eyes of a young womxn whose sister was killed at a BLM protest.
Kirkus awarded the book a starred review, saying, “Brilliant storytelling, sharp dialogue … An explosive look behind the hashtags at race and history, taking readers on a road trip mapped by love and grief. Close to perfection."
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This week’s writing prompt: Write a scene where your character is having a physical and mental reaction to an extremely shocking moment. What happened? What will happen next?
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Mia Mercado is the author of the collection of humor essays, Weird But Normal, which explores the absurdity of being a womxn, and more particularly, a millennial womxn.
PopSugar recommends the book, saying, “Whether she’s tackling universal topics like the joy of shopping at Target or zeroing in on discussing racial identity, each one of her essays is insightful, funny, and a joy to read.”
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This week’s writing prompt: What is something that other people take as normal or fine, that you think is super strange?
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Alexandra Chang is the author of Days of Distraction, a new novel about a young womxn who leaves home and contends with the question, “How do you exist in a society that does not notice or understand you?”
The Washington Post calls the book “an immersive, emotionally honest novel that thinks through our era’s complexities, histories and divisions; it wanders into the gray areas, and wonders where the path forward might be.”
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This week’s writing prompt: Stolen from J. Robert Lennon: Go to Mapcrunch and click around randomized google street views. Find one view that calls to you and write a story that takes place in that street view of your choice.
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Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is the author of The Moon Book, “a guide to conscious living through the moon and her phases, incorporating wellness rituals, spellwork, and witchcraft for the modern seeker.”
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This week’s writing prompt: Close your eyes. Take eight slow deep belly breaths. Out loud, name how you’d like to feel right now. Bring that feeling into your entire body. Now, put an eight minute timer on your phone and write by hand at least eight sentences that invoke that feeling.
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Rachel Mans McKenny is the author of The Butterfly Effect, a new novel. The book is the story of Greta, an entomologist, who takes an unexpected trip back home and unwinds an “unconventional tale of self-discovery, navigating relationships, and how sometimes it takes stepping outside of our comfort zone to find what we need the most.” McKenny is also a humor writer who has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more.
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This week’s writing prompt: Think about an indoor space with which you are extremely familiar. Picture it and think for a moment about the other things, unseen, which might reside there. Pick one of these creatures and describe what you know about them or what questions you might have about them, without doing any additional research. Create a scene where two people are talking, told from the perspective from this truly outside observer.
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Riane Konc is the author of Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Create the Holiday Love Story of a Lifetime. The book takes you on a humorous trip of your choosing through the challenges of a big-city heroine who heads back to her small hometown, while navigating work and love, all with a touch of holiday spirit.
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompts are borrowed from Elissa Bassist’s piece, Writing Prompts for the Dumped, published at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Two unlikely characters meet, date, and eventually part ways. Write their story without using the words “part ways,” “meet,” or “Zoloft.” OR/AND Write flash fiction that begins with the phrase “every silver lining has a cloud” and ends in castration.
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Mariëlle S. Smith is the author of 52 Weeks of Writing: Author Journal and Planner. The book helps writers to plan and work on writing goals all year, reflect on your experience writing, and keep you inspired with weekly prompts.
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I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a letter to your future self: the one who never stopped writing. Keep the letter close in a spot you’ll remember, and each time you find yourself stalling, take out the letter and read it to yourself.
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Marisa Acocella is the author of The Big She-Bang: The Herstory of the Universe According to God the Mother, an Oprah Magazine book pick. Marisa highlights the ways womxn have been erased, vilified, and dominated for thousands of years, and uses humor and the graphic novel format to set the story straight.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Take the very worst moment in your life, write about it, and turn it into the very best moment of your life.
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Laura Taylor Namey is the author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a new Young Adult novel that was just chosen as a Reese’s Book Club pick for November 2020. The novel is the story of Lila, a recent high school graduate who is sent to England from Miami by her parents after disaster strikes at home. She feels out of place, but then she meets Orion, and starts to rethink her plans for the future.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write your protagonist’s first look at a new place or an opportunity that takes them outside their comfort zone.
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Mother Lan Cao and daughter Harlan Van Cao share the new book they wrote together, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter, a memoir exploring the American immigrant experience and how it impacts a family.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
Harlan’s writing prompt is: What are things about your childhood that you resented at the time that now create parts of your personality that you really love?
Lan’s writing prompt is: Think of a period in your life where you struggled with your own self identity vs. how somebody thought of you.
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Award-winning journalist Zara Stone is the author of The Future of Science is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, a book for young people about badass womxn scientists and entrepreneurs.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a physical product that doesn’t exist right now, magical or otherwise, and how you would use it.
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Francina Simone, author of YA novel, Smash It!
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Play some music that gets you into writing. Pick at least three of your characters who interact, and take them to Disney World. Have them avoid the problem that you know they have to face, and let them talk around it.
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This week our guest is Nicole Vick, public health advocate and self-published author. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: What did you experience in life that at first appeared to be a huge hurdle, that became a blessing?
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This week our guest is Sandra Miller Linhart. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write without a prompt!
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This week our guest is Deborah Salazar Shapiro, author of the award-winning children’s book published in both Spanish and English, The Magical Mindful Day. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a time that you felt deeply connected to the earth or nature in some way, and include as many sensory details as you can recall.
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This week our guest is Emily Hashimoto, author of the new novel, A World Between, which explores the relationship between two queer womxn over the span of many years. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Consider a time you were uncomfortable or insecure. Rewrite that moment in a way that unfolds unexpectedly.
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This week our guest is Jenny Bhatt, Indian author of Each of Us Killers. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Start with a memory about an object, a news headline, or an image. Take any of these and free write non-stop for about 10-15 minutes.
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This week our guest is Xanthe Alexis, songwriter, and creator of the atmospheric indie folk album, The Offering. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Imagine your little girl and what her blueprint was for you. Allow her voice to come through and let you know where she sees you going and what’s up ahead.
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This week our guest is Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about one crystal clear moment when you were made very aware of your sense of being inside of or outside of this designated circle of "women."
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This week our guest is Maisy Card, author of the new novel, These Ghosts Are Family. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is based on a prompt provided to Maisy from Elizabeth Bobrick: Write a story you heard that happened before you were born. Whoever it’s about, write from their perspective.
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This week our guest is Christina Hammonds Reed author of the new YA novel, The Black Kids. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write about somebody who receives bad personal news in the middle of a national or international upheaval/catastrophe.
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This week our guest is Melissa Faliveno, editor, teacher, and author of Tomboyland. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Find the tree nearest you. If you can, stand or sit down next to the tree. Describe the tree. First using only sensory descriptions. Then, add a little speculation about the tree. Then write yourself into a scene with a tree and see where it takes you.
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This week our guest is Chet’la Sebree, author of poetry collection Mistress, and the forthcoming lyric meditation Field Study. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Take out a piece of writing that has content you feel passioante about, but you feel like it isn’t working. Write it in a completely different mode, form, or genre.
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This week our guest is memoirist Lacy Crawford, author of the memoir Notes on a Silencing, the journalistic account of being sexual assaulted as a teenager at a private school that spent decades covering it up. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Choose an experience from your life, and instead of writing it beautifully, write it as cleanly, accurately, and honestly as you can.
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This week our guest is memoirist Melissa Valentine, author of The Names of All the Flowers, which explores growing up mixed race in Oakland, being part of a family fractured by the school to prison pipeline, and losing her brother. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Read two pages of any piece of literature and let it inspire you to write.
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This week our guest is Colombian writer Juli Delgado Lopera, author of the queer multilingual novel, Fiebre Tropical. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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This week’s writing prompt is: This is ‘stolen’ from Linda Barry because I love her so much. Write a list of ten cars that have appeared in your life. Pick number 7 and write the story of that car, using all of your senses as you’re writing.
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This week our guest is New York Times bestselling author and staff writer at the New Yorker, Casey Cep. Her recent book is Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which was listed by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2019. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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This week’s writing prompt is: Draft a tableau. Place all of your characters in the same place at the same time.
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This week our guest is author Trina Greene Brown, author of Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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This week’s writing prompt is: How are you practicing liberation in your home?
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This week our guest is memoirist Jaquira Díaz, author of Ordinary Girls - a story of growing up queer in Puerto Rico and Miami. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write about an event, a person, or a moment that changed everything. Who were you before this moment, before this event, before this person? Who were you right after this event, or this moment, or this person? Think about yourself now, or about the character now. What do you know now that you didn’t know then? What was happening in the world in that moment? Think about the world and the character: how are those things connected?
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This week our guest is novelist Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew, a young adult novel that follows two Black teenagers as they discover how first love, heartbreak, betrayal, and family can shape you - for better or worse. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Inspired by Ross Gay, write an essay about delight. Draft it really quickly and write it by hand.
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This week our guest is Aja Black - songwriter, musician, vocalist, and one half of the creative duo The Reminders. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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This week’s writing prompt is: Start with the phrase “flowers keep falling from your mouth,” and combine it with an emotion of your choosing. Expand on that metaphorical phrase through your own interpretation.
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This week our guest is Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Think about a topic that you want to write about. Write about this topic with sensuous knowledge. Conveying whatever topic you choose to write about in the most holistic and sensuous way that you can.
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This week our guest is Bishakh Som, author of Apsara Engine, a collection of graphic short stories. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Dig up an old photo of yourself on a holiday. Preferably one with you and with people in the background. Now imagine yourself as one of the people in the background and how they regard you taking a photo as a tourist.
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This week our guest is Aimee Liu, author of Glorious Boy, a novel set in World War II. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Part One: Write about a memory that inspires guilt. What happened, what did you do, why and how do you blame yourself?
Part Two: How does that memory play forward? What might you do to atone for what happened and what consequences might ensure from the acts you undertake to atone?
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This week our guest is Valencia Robin, visual artist, poet, and author of Ridiculous Light. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write a poem where the lines go from one margin to the other.
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This week our guest is Deborah Paredez, co-founder of CantoMundo, and author of Year of the Dog, a book of poetry. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of language, stories, figures, or images that we see as so completely mundane that we don’t even notice them. Then write what you know and notice about that familiar piece of language. Then write a story to pull it from its familiarity to something more strange or wondrous or meaningful.
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This week our guest is Dallas Woodburn, author of the young adult novel, The Best Week That Never Happened. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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This week’s writing prompt is: Have your character do something out of character for them. What is their decision, why do they decide to do it, and what happens as a result?
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This week our guest is Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction. In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Pick a scene that’s been stymying you, and write it from the perspective of the character who is in juxtaposition with but not interior to your protagonist.
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This week our guest is Luba Vikhanski, author of Gender Mosaic.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Take some quiet time in the evening before you go to bed, and try to think about what you are trying to write in as much detail as possible. Get up in the morning and see if you have fresh ideas.
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This week our guest is Melissa Matthewson, author of Tracing the Desire Line.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Make a list of ten beautiful things. Be as specific as possible and ground yourself in all sensory details. Draw each one out into 200 word fragments about each beautiful thing.
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This week our guest is Hala Alyan, poet and author of The Twenty-Ninth Year.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Think of some long ago family member, imagined or real, and write something about them or to them.
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This week host Sara Gallagher talks about creativity and writing during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Poet Kristy Milligan shares Perhaps Prayer.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write a prayer. Write the prayer you need right now. Write the prayer in your heart.
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This week our guest is Brittney Morris, author of Slay, a young adult novel based on her idea of what might happen if there were an all-black Wakanda-style video game.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Set your protagonist in a coffee shop, tavern, or restaurant. Have each of your other characters come in. Focus on the five senses, and how they feel about the interaction with the other characters who come in. Make it as interesting as you can and focus on the five senses.
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This week our guest is New York Times bestselling author Kim Krans, who reads from her new graphic memoir, Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: Write a thank you letter to an author or artist, the first one who comes to mind. Write a one page, handwritten letter, and thank them for not giving up. Sign it with the date.
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This week our guest is Ann Hagerty Davenport: poet, translator, and devotee of fresh bread.
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Each week the featured author offers a writing prompt for you to use at home. I suggest setting a timer for 6 or 8 minutes, putting the writing prompt at the top of your page, and free writing whatever comes to mind. Remember, the important part is keeping your pen moving. You can always edit later. Right now we just want to write something new and see what happens.
This week’s writing prompt is: The door is a memory. When you walk through, what does this house hold? What rooms do you visit? How might you rearrange the furniture to meet your present needs?
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This week our guest is writer T. Susan Chang. Susie writes about the tarot, and occasionally reviews cookbooks.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Set an alarm for a random time of day when you’re not normally thinking about writing. Check in with each of your senses. Write a sentence or two for each sensory experience.
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This week our guest is creative nonfiction writer Dr. Chloe Schwenke. She reads from her memoir, SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Even though people prefer to read about heroes and winners, try to own being less than or different from those who are celebrated. Write about your own experiences of being victimized and how you avoided identifying as a victim.
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This week our guest is editor and fiction writer, Tara Lynn Masih. Her recent novel, My Real Name is Hanna, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Pick a subject matter, Google it, and see if anything crazy shows up. Truth is crazier than fiction. I use news headlines to prompt interesting stories that are unusual.
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This week our guest is historical fiction author Elizabeth Bell, author of Necessary Sins and Lost Saints, in the Lazare Family Saga.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write a scene in which a character interacts with a work of art. Maybe it sparks a memory, maybe it challenges the character’s beliefs, or maybe the character knows the artist.
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This week our guest is Dr. Rosenna Bakari: memoirist, poet, psychologist, and college professor.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write a letter of apology to your younger self at whatever age you think some wounding occurred.
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Jamaican-born writer Shara McCallum has received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an award from the Library of Congress, and more.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Choose an abstract concept that you are particularly vexed by, and allow that concept to talk to you.
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Writer Courtney Maum shares the introduction to her book that is being released this week, Before and After the Book Deal.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write from the first person point of view of a holiday gift. Explore the way the gifts that we give and receive feel about the act of being given.
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Poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old. She shares two poems; one of them Hanukkah-themed.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write a poem that uses a foreign language and plays with the way it enters into the English. Use it to make music or meaning or a little bit of both. Use it to play.
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When Nefertiti Austin looked for books reflecting the experience of a single, black, adoptive mother, she didn’t find any. Anywhere. So she wrote one. This week Nefertiti shares a reading from her recent memoir, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America.
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This week’s writing prompt is: What does motherhood look like to you?
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“Read, read, read! Read all the time!” - Elissa Bassist
This week, Sara interviews essayist, humor writer, and editor Elissa Bassist on her writing process.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Tell me what you do not want people you knew in high school to read about you.
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We all need companionship in our creativity. This week, Sara interviews author Grace Talusan, who shares writing tips and reads from her book, The Body Papers.
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This week’s writing prompt is: Write about a meal that you’ve made for someone else out of love, or that someone has made for you out of love.
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