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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 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 [...]

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

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: 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 [...]

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.