Weekly Challenge

Each week a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200-word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add a link to your piece in the comments below so others can enjoy your work.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

 

The Prompts

 

Phrases

explanation of lateness

the light feels right to me

their bone-less bodies

 

Art

 

The Vale of the White Horse by Eric Ravilious

http://www.wikiart.org/en/eric-ravilious

 

Theme

Child Poverty

Weekly Challenge

Each week a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add a link to your piece in the comments below so others can enjoy your work.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

 

The Prompts

 

Art

 

Heat wave in Roath Park by Maja Grecic

 

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/maja-grecic/artworks/

 

Theme

 

Chemical Soup

 

 

Poetic Lines

 

in the quiet of the long familiar – Work by Sally Bliumis-Dunn

when god prays to himself – Fog by Vi Khi Nao

I want to live the way you did – The Cossacks by Linda Pastan

Weekly Challenge 7

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.
Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add a link to your piece in the comments below so others can enjoy your work.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

The Prompts

Wordbank

Caitiff
Flotsam
Sapling
Dump
Madness

 

Phrases

Fragments of the Self
fishing for my keys
She left him for her ex

 

Art

 

Gradbatch Lane by David Barber

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/david-barber/artworks/

Weekly Challenge

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.
Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add a link to your piece in the comments below so others can enjoy your work.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

The Prompts

Phrases

buckets full of mist
dried up fountain
the unsaid words

Art

Kalamata by Evangelos Tzavaras

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/evangelos-tzavaras/artworks/

Theme

A single breath

Weekly Challenge

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add a link to your work in comments so others can enjoy it too.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

The Prompts

Pas de Deux by Rob Borel

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/rob-borel/artworks/

Theme

Instinct

Poetic Lines

The tulips have found me out – Discovery by Florence Ripley Mastin

A low half moon that makes the wings – Coming by Kenneth Rexroth

he warned that it was a bad habit – Pinochle by Philip Terman

Weekly Challenge 47 – 12 November

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add your piece to the list by clicking the cute creature below. You can also add this to your own piece so others can enjoy too.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

The Prompts

Wordbank

Hiss
Tinnitus
Spear
Spray
Radial

Phrases

burning wings
old ghosts
on top of a telephone pole

Art

Around the Bend by Nancy R Lindsay

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/nancy-lindsay/artworks/

 

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Weekly Challenge 42 – 9 October

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add your piece to the list by clicking the cute creature below. You can also add this to your own piece so others can enjoy too.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

 

The Prompts

 

Phrases

 

Ached a low-tone

Dandelions tickling

We put men in boxes

 

 

 

Art

 

Arlecchino by Rosalind Lyons

 

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/rosalind-lyons/artworks/

 

Theme

Books

 

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Weekly Challenge 40 – 24 September

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add your piece to the list by clicking the cute creature below. You can also add this to your own piece so others can enjoy too.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

 

The Prompts

Art

Moana – In the Spirit of Aloha by Ria Janta-Cooper

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/ria-janta-cooper/artworks/

 

Theme

Silver ID Bracelet

 

Poetic Lines

• with the letters for poet – Gwendolyn Brooks Park, Topeka by Ed Skoog
• like a silver night-blooming moonflower – Jazz You’ll Never Know by Margaret Hasse
• Because her body is winter inside a cave – Respect by Melissa Studdard

 

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Weekly Challenge 37 – 3 September

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

Please take the time to add your piece to the list by clicking the cute creature below. You can also add this to your own piece so others can enjoy too.

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

The Prompts

Wordbank

Corduroy
Spoon
Bustle
Coarse
Elocution

Phrases

Journey of commitment
Some bad whisky
Will to give

Art

Urban Reflections by Bhavani Krishnan

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/bhavani-Krishnan/artworks

 

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Weekly Challenge 35: 20 August

Every Thursday a new challenge will be posted consisting of prompts for flash fiction or poetry. As a guide line flash fiction should be around the 200 word count and poetry between 14 and 20 lines.

Your piece can involve one, all or any combination of the prompts given. The key is to enjoy what you are writing and in turn we will enjoy what you give us to read.

 

Please take the time to add your piece to the list by clicking the cute creature below. You can also add this to your own piece so others can enjoy too.

 

Ok so pens (or fingers) at the ready for some creative fun and I look forward to reading what you write.

 

The Prompts

 

Phrases

 

The best part

He means well

The end is truth

 

Art

 

Gaia Hidden Stories Series by Dhyana Fritsche

 

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/dhyana-fritsche/artworks

 

Theme

 

Coffee

 

 

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