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 [...]
Writing Prompt: Select a quote from a movie. Using that quote as the first line of dialog, craft a conversation between two characters. If you need help thinking of a movie quote, IMDb Quote Section may be helpful.
Disappointment by Sarah D.
(quote is from Garden State)
“Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people [...]
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 [...]
The Writing Prompt: In 200 words, write a description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions but sight: you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will not miss the visual details.
Waihe’e by [...]
The Oregon State Poetry Association announces its annual student contest. Poems will be accepted November 2, 2009 through February 1, 2010. Prizes are awarded for the top ten poems in each of four grade level divisions: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Winners are published in Cascadia, OSPA’s annual anthology; and are then entered in the [...]
On November 2, artists, teaching artists, writers, educators, administrators and elected officials gathered at the World Forestry Center for the 2nd Annual Oregon Arts Education Congress convened by the Oregon Arts Commission. Mary Rechner, the Writers in the Schools Program Director for Literary Arts, had the good fortune to lead a teambuilding art experience with [...]
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!
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The prompt was: In 250 words, answer this question: How old would you be if you didn’t know your real age?
Here is what we received in return.
My Age by Sarah D.
My mother has always looked younger than she was, even now as she closes in on 60. People used to think my brother and I [...]
Lydia Davis, celebrated fiction writer and translator of French works like Swann’s Way and Madame Bovary, visited Grant High School students today to talk about her life and work. Students from Jamie Zartler’s creative writing class read a number of her stories to prepare for the visit, and asked great questions about her writing life. [...]
Behold the tyranny of a blank page
it, looms
waiting for typography to fill
the recesses of the margins
I like typewriters. I like the click-click sounds they make.
–Anonymous
Against The Indigo Sky
Chapbook #2
Spring 2010
(Coming Soon)
2008-2009 Anthology
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