The inspiration for Hannah: The Soldier Diaries was in part drawn from my grandparents—particularly my grandmother who used to tell me stories of what it was like for her to be living and waiting at home with my mother for my grandfather’s safe return from World War II. Weeks and months would pass by without […]
If you would have told me two years ago that I’d be a published poet in 2024, I would have laughed in your face and then curled back into the daily despair I was living in at the time. But here we are, a few short weeks after the release of my debut poetry collection, […]
Cindy Miller is a writer and editor who has worked in newspaper and magazine publishing for 28 years. Cindy edited Arizona Woman magazine and the Arizona Woman Who’s Who in Business, was the founding editor of the award-winning AZ Society magazine and the Red Book Magazine, and has written and edited for the Arizona Republic. […]
Openings are a science unto themselves, be they openings for an entire book, for a chapter, or for a scene. One principle, however, is generally agreed upon: it is best to open with something happening. So let’s look at what’s involved with starting your scenes with a bang! It’s true: too often we start reading […]
Joseph Moldover is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives and works in Massachusetts. His debut novel, Every Moment After, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Stonecoast Review, MonkeyBicycle, One Teen Story, Typehouse, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. From 2020-2023 he co-hosted the online program […]
Before we get into today’s prompt, I just want to let you know this will be the final Wednesday Poetry Prompt for a few weeks, because we’re starting the November PAD Chapbook Challenge on Friday. So we’ll still be poeming on Wednesdays; we’ll just be doing it as part of that daily poeming challenge. Click […]
By James Aitchison They called phrenology a science, but it was pure quackery, a pseudoscience that tragically labelled thousands of innocent people as criminals or mentally defective. By running their hands over a person’s skull and judging its shape and size, phrenologists believed they could determine someone’s character, thoughts, and propensity to commit crime. By […]
Author photo credit: Mike Cooper WD uses affiliate links. We first connected with Nikki May during her debut novel’s publication and featured her in our January/February 2022 issue‘s Breaking In column. Now that her next publication is hitting the shelves today, we’re reconnecting with her What was the time frame for writing this latest book? […]
Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash For today’s prompt, start your story with an accusation. Post your response (500 words or fewer) in the comments below.
By: Gopal Lahiri Breathing IncenseSplintersSpinReturnUrban Artist Breathing Incense It’s what speaks to us, that corner, that edge of lifefrom which emergesa vitellus of pigment and tinges, like bloodyfiligree of bones,spreading the autumn sky.the daylight is winding down from theshouldered hill.Oleander tree sheds its yellow flowers all over. A sand mound stands silent,the sigh of women […]
By: Debbie Tunstall This is my story to tell.You do not get to choose the wordsthat everyone needs to read.They are for me, and for others. If I get cutyou do not get to choose how I bleed,If it tricklesgushesor heals. While you try to hush the gentlenessof this worldI’ll be here,listening-to all that are […]
Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), as well as The Deep (which has an adaptation in development at Amazon Studios), Little Heaven, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, […]
