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Writing Prompt: In 250 words, answer this question: What would have happened if you didn’t leave the house this morning?
Chris C. from Portland State
Title: Since I stayed home today, this has never been written.
I stayed home this morning and the rubble is still visible. There’s no collection of bits and bytes to mark my passing [...]

We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt!
Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on the blog. All you have to do is click Submit on the right hand side of the screen. Let’s get on with the new writing prompt!
Spend five to ten minutes writing [...]

A Future
By Angelina K.
Books and authors
surrounded I am
fiction and nonfiction
Poetry to Novels
A love for books,
A love for adventure,
Where to start?
Something unknown.
A wishing future,
Hopefully an author,
A wanted future,
Z search to find.

Here’s a poem by Brimmy
Roma gypsies shamelessly stealing
bundles of rose-colored lightbulbs.
Drinking gritty gypsum stirring
into lonesome inebriation.

Photorealism
by Ruth Campbell from Grant High School
Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong
I found the picture in a magazine:
light poured into a silent hallway
from the many open, dusty doors
interrupting the shadows
on the doors across the hall.
As I carefully drew each shadow
the desolate dust became flooded with light,
and I wondered
how a [...]

Perspective on Others
by Martin Rich from Metropolitan Learning Center
Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong
Walking up to the corner of Ainsworth and MLK Avenue shows so many choices. Walgreens pharmacy, Safeway grocery, Starbucks coffee, and my favorite Popeye’s Cajun chicken and biscuits. One night I was in the mood for [...]

Because we are still getting in to the swing of things here, we’re going to extend the deadline for the first writing prompt of the school year. You now have until October 16th.
We have made it simple for you to respond to the writing prompt and to send us prose/poetry for consideration to post on [...]

We’ll be posting writing that was generated at the WITS Teen Lounge at Wordstock. This poem is by Kay, one of our “teens of all ages” who began with the prompt: Write a poem using the words crocodile, manatee and mermaid.
A mermaid called her friends to tea
the dolphins spread the word
A crocodile and manatee
were two that [...]

The WITS Teen Lounge at Wordstock was really fun!  Teens of all ages came to read, write and hang out.

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