This speculative novel explores an alternate future beginning with the election of a new president in 2024.
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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.
Choose a person or object that makes you feel warm and share the warmth with us.
November’s prompt looks ahead to gift-giving season and will help you develop a story about an unwanted gift.
It was the beginning that I would only see in hindsight, backwards in time, after learning again and again that such mercy exists—exists, secretly in concrete streets...
Julia Armfield's novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, is a shorter read that stays with you.
Write about your earliest memory, or a time when memory failed you, or a special memory you share with only one other person.
Helena Clare Pittman, one of the Center’s most dedicated teachers, has written, painted, and taught her entire life. In her monthly Helena Writes series, she shares a lifetime of wisdom, one pearl at a time.
In her 71st post, Helena offers a dozen sensory vignettes from her summer camp experiences. Enjoy!
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Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, will use various tarot and oracle decks to provide monthly readings for writers, with exercises on using imagery and intuition as prompts. October’s prompt guides you to create a story to explain or invent a Halloween tradition.
Surely there’s no better time to use tarot cards for a writing prompt than when the veil between worlds is the thinnest!
Out There Screaming is a thoughtful collection of psychological horror and speculative fiction that examines the expectations of the world on Black bodies.
Write about someone or something in your life that is "evergreen."