Open for a bite-sized writing challenge 💗
a prompt to spark your imagination
this week’s prompt:
Write a 100-word microfiction piece that includes the word “self-care.”
Happy writing!
Pitches and Submissions
Prompted is always open to pitches from writers with something to say about the creative process, creative routines, creativity, or really anything mildly writing-related — including reported pieces and interviews. Got something a little offbeat and weird? Awesome.
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musings
I’m running on fumes this week, so nothing to report here.
Did this week’s prompt inspire you? Submit your 100-word microfiction piece to Prompted!! You’ll get featured and get paid!
things that caught my eye
Current read: The Coin — I’ve never been in this much of a reading rut before in my life. I guess it’s a sign that I’m doing too much.
🫠Something Bizarre is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT A lot — via The Byte.
🔌Manufactured viral moment or the makings of a real movement?https://www.theamdash.com/
deadlined stuff from previous weeks
✏️2025 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize — open for submissions until May 18, 2025.
✏️ Burlington Public Library Annual Writing Contest — open until May 31st. Theme is “Whisper.” You need to live, work, or go to school in Burlington to enter!
✏️CBC Poetry Prize — open for submissions until June 1st, 2025.
✏️ Applications Open for 2025 Writers-in-Exile Humber Scholarship (applicants must be members of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile program) — Deadline June 2, 2025.
✏️ Banff Writing Residency for new writers of YA and Children’s Books — Application deadline June 4, 2025.
open submission calls
✏️ Cursed Morsels has a submission call for single-author horror and weird fiction short story collections by BIPOC writers only. Open until 2026 calendar is filled.
✏️ Seize the Press is looking to publish dark speculative fiction, strict 7,500 word limit.
✏️ Okay Donkey is open to poetry and flash fic submissions, no deadline but there’s a monthly cap on free submissions.
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artwork by Angela Miklos Creative