About
THE PROMPT
The Prompt is a creative community that showcases unique voices.

People hungry to create. Writers. Podcasters. Artists.

Maybe even you.

Our mission
We’re here to inspire creators to create. The Prompt is a place to put your best ideas and creative output.

It’s a place to get inspired. To share your voice, your best ideas, and your unique perspective.

What’s your story? We can't wait to hear it.
"YOU CAN'T USE UP CREATIVITY. THE MORE YOU USE, THE MORE YOU HAVE." — Maya Angelou
Meet the
PROMPTERS
Josh Bard
Josh Bard is a guy. A sports guy, an ideas guy, a wise guy, a funny guy, a Boston guy, and sometimes THAT guy. Never been a Guy Fieri guy, though.
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Josh Bard
Gordon St. Raus
Gordon St. Raus peaked at 15 and is mostly held together by masking tape.
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Gordon St. Raus
Sarah Razner
Sarah Razner is a reporter of real-life Wisconsin by day, and a writer of fictional lives throughout the world by night.
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Sarah Razner
Kelaine Conochan
The editor-in-chief of this magazine, who should, in all honesty, be a gym teacher. Don’t sleep on your plucky kid sister.
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Kelaine Conochan
Mike Stiriti
Mike Stiriti once dreamed of anchoring SportsCenter back when that was a thing. Now he just tries to be funny.
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Mike Stiriti
Jesse Stone
Jesse B. Stone loves science and writing. Apologies if you were looking for the "Jesse Stone" played by Tom Selleck in the CBS movies.
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Jesse Stone
Jillian Conochan
Jillian Conochan is a professional amateur; writing and editing just happen to be two current pursuits. Opinion range: strong to DNGAF.
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Jillian Conochan
Dennis William
Dennis is an aspiring English teacher and still listens to ska music. He lives in Portland, Oregon, which is fine, just not in the same way that DC is fine.
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Dennis William
Erin Vail
Erin is the 2003 West Reading Elementary Geography Bee champion, a TV obsessive, and never not thinking about Buffalo sports.
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Erin Vail
Heather Shaff
Heather Shaff is a cyclist, writer, and mom based in Boston. She's fascinated by all things growth, motivation, and learning... and will drop everything for chocolate ice cream.
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Heather Shaff
N. Alysha Lewis
N. Alysha Lewis is an editor and blogger with author aspirations whose love can absolutely be bought with french fries.
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N. Alysha Lewis
Billy Hafferty
Billy Hafferty is probably still hanging out of the passenger side of his best friend's ride trying to holler at you.
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Billy Hafferty
Scott Michael
Scott is an ISTJ with an MA, and is usually MIA or AFK IRL. Interrobang him and win a prize.
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Scott Michael
Eric Mochnacz
A wizard of pop culture. A prince of snark. A delightful addition to any dinner party.
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Eric Mochnacz
Devin Householder
Devin is passionate about writing, reading and remaining in emotionally harmful relationships with losing sports teams. He suffers quietly (except on Sundays) with his loving wife and daughter in Rhode Island.
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Devin Householder
Thomas Viehe
Thomas Viehe prefers pop over soda, loo over toilet, fall over autumn. He lives with his wife and dog in a remote part of the country, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Viehe
Dan Farkas
Dr. Daniel H. Farkas is a molecular pathologist who has published extensively and spoken on the topic internationally. Dan Farkas, on the other hand, is an itinerant New Yorker living just outside The D. His joys in life come from creative writing, photography, the music of his youth, his wife and kids, and sometimes the NY Rangers. #LGM
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Dan Farkas
Jay Heltzer
Jay Heltzer writes attention-challenged fiction, plays bass trombone, digs sloppy fountain pen sketches, and is in pursuit of the perfect cheeseburger.
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Jay Heltzer
That's Debatable
The official podcast of The Prompt, featuring Davo and Cali, former college roommates, as they agree, disagree, and break down the issues of the day. Intro track used with permission from the badass GoGo Brass Funk band, The Brass-a-holics: www.brass-a-holics.com
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That's Debatable
Jack O'Shea
Jack O'Shea was voted "Most Likely to be a Great Dad" in high school. He likes to drink Mountain Dew in his spare time.
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Jack O'Shea
Sydney Mineer
Sydney Mineer believes in Harvey Dent. She is the #1 bull terrier spotter in Los Angeles and is fluent in both Seinfeld and Spongebob references.
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Sydney Mineer
Ryan Fay
Ryan is an editor and semi-pro author with life goal of having enough money to buy the cool things people make in DIY videos.
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Ryan Fay
Sydney Walters
Copywriter, fiction author and PR professional from D.C. who scribbles in answers on trivia night and shouts at her Playstation. Sips hot tea or coffee from a Studio Ghibli mug. Paces while brainstorming. Conquers hot sauce.
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Sydney Walters
Ariel Cross
Ariel Cross is a fantasy author and blogger with a love for representation and subversion. To them, happiness is a warm glass of mead on a cold day.
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Ariel Cross
Elijah Sloan
Writer of societal manifestos, ransom notes, bomb-making manuals, secession declarations, new constitutions, and children's picture books.
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Elijah Sloan
John Papageorgiou
John hosts a long running comedy radio show titled Papa's Basement. He also performs standup and improv and drummed once for a Unitarian church.
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John Papageorgiou
Cal James
Cal James is an author, improviser, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. His memoir, “I Guarantee You Love, Fame and Legacy” follows his journey through self-realization as a comedian.
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Cal James
V. Buritsch
A freelancer, fiction writer, podcast listener, fantasy reader who sometimes remembers to write for herself on occasion. She has a BA in English and Management, and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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V. Buritsch
Brian McGackin
‪Poet Brian McGackin is the author of BROETRY and DEATH IN THE RICK. He lives in Los Angeles and drinks a lot of Guinness.‬
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Brian McGackin
Jenny Zaret
Jenny Zaret is a writer and instructional designer living in Maryland. She watches more than the recommended daily allowance of anime.
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Jenny Zaret
Sam Hedenberg
Sam Hedenberg is a humor blogger living in Northern Virginia. When he grows up, he wants to be a writer or quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Sam Hedenberg
Jessica is a former stage actor who now has a real paycheck, health care and 2 strapping Yankee kiddoes. She’s lived in NYC, Chicago, and DC but prefers a Maine crabcake above any other.
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Jessica Dunton Fidalgo
Keven Balderas
Keven obsesses, nearly to the point of madness, over a new interest every two years. So far, his interests have included Latin, drawing, skateboarding and photography.
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Keven Balderas
Jessica Lulka
Jess Lulka is a Boston-based creative. When she's not writing or editing, you'll find her at any bookstore, art museum, or looking at cat pictures.
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Jessica Lulka
Melissa Wyatt
Boasting with Philly pride, I’m a loud-mouthed Italian mama striving to achieve the perfect combination of marketing guru with a hint of Julia Child, Martha Stewart, and Beyonce.
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Melissa Wyatt
MK McWeeney
MK once drew herself as Michael Jordan’s daughter for back-to-school night to tell her parents she no longer wanted to be theirs.
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MK McWeeney
Anthony Rogers-Wright
A New Yorker in Seattle, Anthony can be found drinking coffee in the rain, yelling at televisions and chasing his 3 year-old. His book, IntersectionALL is due for release in early 2019.
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Anthony Rogers-Wright
Gavin Lippman
Baltimore native who is always searching for that next adventure and a new story to tell.
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Gavin Lippman
Jay Kasten
A writer, actor, and director living in Los Angeles just waiting for anybody to let him do those things.
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Jay Kasten
Katie Novotny
Katie is a comedian and copywriter, living in New York to chase her dreams of becoming the official spokeswoman for Bengay.
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Katie Novotny
Michael Maiello
Michael Maiello is a New York-based playwright, author and humorist. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, and Weekly Humorist. He has two plays available through playscripts.com.
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Michael Maiello
Anthony Reeves
From chasing ice cream trucks to serving as a lawyer, professor, dancer, and activist, I'm on a mission to educate and inspire others to be their best selves.
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Anthony Reeves
Earth to Planet
Earth To Planet is the brainchild of a brainless child who lives on a densely populated West Atlantic island. Follow the pixels at www.instagram.com/earthtoplanet
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Earth to Planet
Jennifer Racusin is a writer with a runaway imagination, an artist making huge bird puppets, and a teacher teaching the future how to think.
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Jennifer Racusin
Dear Pythia
Pythia Defool was conceived during the Dust Bowl and now lives in the Whispering Oaks retirement community just west of Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa Bay. She’s excited to contribute to The Prompt.
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Dear Pythia
Natalie Brandt
Natalie is a lawyer and mom trapped in Texas. Wildly outspoken about the separation of church and state, she can quickly kill a dinner party but always brings good wine.
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Natalie Brandt
Jake Cantrell
11 in a 21-year old body with an 81-year old soul. Just trying to follow God, wear neat socks and be 1 percent less worse than yesterday."
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Jake Cantrell
Mikael Johnson
Mikael Johnson is a writer, performer and paralegal. He once hit (2) home-runs in a game while playing baseball in Europe—he may have “flipped” his bat after hitting the second one.
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Mikael Johnson
Shannon Vail
The number one authority on giant squids and can eat 6-14 boxes of pasta a day according to a recent Twitter poll.
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Shannon Vail
Kelonnie Harris
Kelonnie (she/they) is an aspiring writer and otherwise creative person who enjoys poetry, overthinking gender stuff, and surviving last night’s off-the-wall dreams.
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Kelonnie Harris
Jessie Rosen
Jessie Rosen is the writer behind the blog 20-Nothings and storytelling series SUNDAY NIGHT SEX TALKS. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her dog, and the complete works of Nora Ephron.
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Jessie Rosen
John Barnes
John Barnes has a B.S. in geography and recently severely burnt his thumb playing with fireworks in a storm drain in Northern Virginia.
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John Barnes
Monica McNutt
Ex-college hooper turned sports person. Life goal: be the voice of a key character in an animated movie, like Crush in Finding Nemo.
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Monica McNutt
Robin Doody
Thinks of himself as the love-child of Tim Riggins and Max Fischer.
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Robin Doody
David DeAngelo
David is Principal of DL DeAngelo Consulting, providing research and advisory services to advocacy and political organizations.
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David DeAngelo
Melanie Civin Kenion
Melanie Civin Kenion is spending her retirement writing poetry, traveling as much as possible, and playing Rummikub with her grandson.
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Melanie Civin Kenion
Lauren Layman
Lauren lives in DC and knows the name of every dog on her block, but none of the humans.
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Lauren Layman
Mike Vaughan-Cherubin
A lover of life from upstate NY. Currently DC chillin'. Days spent at the intersection of sport & youth development or sun & pavement.
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Mike Vaughan-Cherubin
Meg Kearns
Meg's taste in TV ranges from angsty tween to middle-aged British lady. Known for getting in fights in defense of the Lost finale.
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Meg Kearns
Jonathan Newby
A proud Ohio boy living in the 410. Aspiring world traveler. Constant singer of all of the songs. My faith, family, and friends keep me grounded. Work hard, love harder. Go Bucks. Glory glory, Man United.
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Jonathan Newby
David Borger Germann
David is a pastor, magic bean buyer, and aspiring mystic. He lives in Iowa City with his wife, two soccer-playing sons, and two budgies named Lizzy & Jane.
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David Borger Germann
Shalen Lowell
Shalen Lowell is an author and poet from southern Maine. They were also voted least likely to be an ENTJ Slytherin, but here we are.
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Shalen Lowell
Marybeth McDonough
Marybeth knows the correct movie quote and the filmography of the actor who said it; she does not need to look it up.
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Marybeth McDonough
Dave Berry
Dave Berry is funny and a writer, but not related to Dave Barry. Those are different names and that would also just be weird.
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Dave Berry
Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor is a writer living in Washington, D.C. He has the soul of a poet and the toenails of a long distance runner.
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Mike Taylor
Justin D. Wright
Justin is a composer and producer in Brooklyn, NY who is both tall and coordinated. His heart occasionally explodes with love, etc.
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Justin D. Wright
Matt Guttentag
Matt Guttentag is looking for his keys.
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Matt Guttentag
Justin Jenkins
I’m a California boy who’s an undergrad at Howard University. I religiously work out, write, and turn up with my squad. #BlackLivesMatter
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Justin Jenkins
Jacqueline Frasca
Jacqueline Frasca is the editor-in-chief of East Coast Ink literary magazine. A poet from Boston, her friends often call her "Forest Witch."
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Jacqueline Frasca
David Leipziger
David once performed a feminist rap version of "Gaston" from Disney's Beauty and the Beast on a soccer field in DC. Today he lives in London and searches for a wilting rose. (Not the flower but the eligible British viscount, Sir Wilting Rose).
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David Leipziger
Seth Monk
Seth Monk is a former Buddhist monk and energy healer living in the Boston area. He is CEO and Founder of Spirit Monkeys, an organization that runs global transformational retreats.
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Seth Monk
Ellen Cosgrove
Lover of learning, nerdy ideas, dry wit, cooking and eating delicious food and generally going back to what brought her joy at the age of 8. She lives in NY and is a consultant and runs a project called Dinner & Dialogue (dinneranddialogue.org)
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Ellen Cosgrove
D. Anner
D. Anner is an editor and writer who is always running away from the stories in her mind. They find her eventually.
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D. Anner
Sheeva Azma
Sheeva Azma is a freelance science writer, MIT and Georgetown alum, and founder of the science writing company Fancy Comma, LLC. Learn more about her at www.sheevaazma.com.
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Sheeva Azma
Michael Foldes
Poet, publisher, author, and businessman whose books include “Sleeping Dogs: A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping …” “Sandy: Chronicles of a Superstorm,” “Fashions & Passions,” and “End Game.” He lives in the Southern Tier of New York.
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Michael Foldes
Ben Chavez
Ben is a bit of a nomad with a mild case of ADHD. He hopes to squeeze in some writing between hiking, work, and video games.
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Ben Chavez
Corcoran Street Kitchen
You're all familiar with surly economist Emily Thomas? Well, this is her delicious side hustle: corcoranstreetkitchen.blogspot.com.
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Corcoran Street Kitchen
Cecelia Halpert
Cecelia is an amateur storyteller, writer, and adult. She hopes to go pro in all three someday.
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Cecelia Halpert
Kevin Shea
Love running and my family. Like beaches, food, most sports, and the Orioles. Retired and living in Hermosa Beach.
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Kevin Shea
Jenna Billingsley
Jenna Billingsley, equal parts morbid and funny, with a twist of awkward.
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Jenna Billingsley
Ed Lynn
Creator of National Pasquinade (nationalpasquinade.com), a so-called humor magazine. Still perfecting ways of making ceiling wax.
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Ed Lynn
Nicole C. Prince
Nicole Prince is a North Carolina native with a deep love for writing, literature, and her four affectionate, mischievous dogs. You can find her traveling the world, or close to the dessert table.
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Nicole C. Prince
Ben Krimmel
A Baltimore-born writer who has come to realize the best time to eat lunch is 12:37 p.m.
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Ben Krimmel
Greg Tindale
Greg Tindale is a dad who loves writing about his kids. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Greg Tindale
Tom O'Gara
Tom O'Gara was born in Boston, lives in LA, and has never met a nap that he didn't like. He writes non-fiction.
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Tom O'Gara
Natasha Gural
Natasha Gural is a fallen literary scholar and veteran award-winning journalist and editorial executive (AP, Dow Jones) who misses the old school newspaper and wire service hustle. Her creative pursuits include covering global fine art for Forbes. No doubt her literary breakthrough will strike as the Earth implodes.
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Natasha Gural
Jenna Godfrey
Jenna Godfrey is too chill to be a hater. Too hype to wait for later. Too lazy to make another rhyme.
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Jenna Godfrey
Kimberly Lee
Kimberly Lee enjoys day spas, rose gold, and yoga pants. She’d love to use words like harbinger and zeitgeist in a quick, saucy comeback.
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Kimberly Lee
Poseidon
I am Poseidon, Gay God of the Sea, master of waters, bringer of earthquakes, lord of all horses and all who are horsehung. Polytheistic/polyamorous/ENFJ.
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Poseidon
Ángel Bolivar Torres
Ángel loves boom-bap hip-hop, high-level high-low post play. In a constant state of craving a burger and beer. Accent on the A is never expected but always appreciated.
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Ángel Bolivar Torres
Daragh Fleming
Daragh Fleming is a 25 year old writer from Cork, Ireland. He writes thought-provoking fiction that flirts heavily with the bizarre, runs a mental health blog over at thoughtstoobig.com, and his first collection of short stories, The Book of Revelations, was published in summer 2019.
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Daragh Fleming
Connie Thompspon
Connie (she/they) studied at Stanley Lanford where she also read poetry at bougie cafes as alter ego Constance Veneer. They blog at The Pigeonhole as themself.
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Connie Thompspon
Michael Alexander Gural-Maiello
When he's not training to best Michael Phelps' records, Michael Alexander is writing, coding, editing YouTube videos, painting, playing electric guitar, singing David Bowie songs, dancing, performing standup comedy, competing in chess, hiking, or playing with his goddess dog (and canine sister) Athena. A native New Yorker who moved to Portland, Maine on May 1, Michael is a fifth-grader with deep ties to the art world. He enjoys visiting galleries and museums, discussing all genres, especially contemporary art, with artists, gallery owners, and curators.
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Michael Alexander Gural-Maiello
Drew Misemer
Drew Misemer resides in the Midwest. A grad of Washington State University, he writes his newsletter and misses heckling opposing basketball teams.
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Drew Misemer
Craig Williams
Craig Williams hasn't stopped giggling about that fart he heard in the fourth grade.
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Craig Williams
Dan Helinek
Dan Helinek is the lesser twin. He tries to forget this by hiking very long distances. It doesn’t work.
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Dan Helinek
Caroline Willett
Caroline Willett is an Avril Lavigne conspiracy theorist who has a three-legged cat that she'd love to tell you about sometime.
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Caroline Willett
Danielle Guercio
New York’s Highest; Artist, writer, wicked witch.
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Danielle Guercio
Paul Hébert
Paul Hébert loves writing everything from prose to essays to music. But as a hip-hop artist, he's also known by his stage name, TRA1N, and has opened for acts like Fetty Wap.
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Paul Hébert
Jay Vu
Jay Vu believes that anything wrapped in banana leaves deserves a try.
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Jay Vu
H:H Overholt
Nikk writes fiction like Andy Dufresne tunnels out of prison. He can’t rewatch Office Space; it’s not funny anymore. He lives in a rye whiskey bottle that's also an Airbnb.
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H:H Overholt
Jeff Estrella
Jeff Estrella is a retail worker by day and a writer by night based in Massachusetts who is always looking for community, hope, and a bookstore.
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Jeff Estrella
Karen Gilmore
Karen Gilmore is a writer from Canada. She loves black jellybeans and scented magic markers and dislikes the name Karen as much as you do.
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Karen Gilmore
Christine Veasey
Christine Veasey's first poetry collection “Walking Into Spiderwebs” is available on Amazon in ebook or paperback. In addition to her work on The Prompt, she was recently published in the moonstone press anthology "Disasters of War". She spent over a year living in a tent, observing the romantic and sad absurdities of life. She is currently attempting to reintegrate into society and continues writing.
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Christine Veasey
Amy Bohlman
Amy Bohlman (Klimoski) is a Minnesota-based writer in love with the short form including essays, poems, and stories. Find her at www.ashortgirl.com and on Instagram @ashortgirlwrites.
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Amy Bohlman
Tren Bren
Tren Bren is a comedian and writer.
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Tren Bren
Meredith Chin
Meredith Chin is a writer, director, and producer living in Los Angeles, CA.
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Meredith Chin
Patrick Zhou
It took 42 minutes to draft this 140-character bio and, since I lack time management skills and any semblance of brevity, this is all I coul
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Patrick Zhou
Kirsten Eyles
47 year old stay at home mom/leisure wife. Glass is always half empty. Always expecting the other shoe to drop. Comes by her misanthropy honestly, via high school.
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Kirsten Eyles
Steven M. Wells
Steven M. Wells writes on rainy days, or walks his dog, and lives near Seattle.
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Steven M. Wells
Pool Boy Comedy
Jack O'Shea, Henry O'Shea, and Jack Neuheisel are to humor what Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith were to Cady Heron.
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Pool Boy Comedy
Adam Cadmon
Adam is a writer, explorer of consciousness, a dog owner (x2), and a pretty decent fellow if you ask him. Find him reading, reading comics, fishing, or just walking through the woods outside ATL.
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Adam Cadmon
Dimana Kornegay
Dimana hails from Bulgaria and cried when she was little, listening to Bohemian Rhapsody, because she thought Freddie's mom had died.
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Dimana Kornegay
Susan Bennett
Ideal day: belly laughs at kitchen table with husband and baby, Law & Order, working with college students, bowl of ice cream, crossword.
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Susan Bennett
Zara Macias
Student, artist, activist, and writer.
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Zara Macias
Stephen Czerwinski
Stephen Czerwinski ghostwrites their mother's yearly Christmas letter. They live in Los Angeles where they makes things for the internet.
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Stephen Czerwinski
Karina Piser
Karina is a writer based in Paris, where she reports on religion and identity. She grew up in Berkeley, previously lived in Brooklyn, and enjoys reading and taking long walks.
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Karina Piser
Cassandra Lee Yieng
A lover of stories, Cass pulls them from real-world data by day and from her imagination by night. She writes to inspire, and is an advocate for girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Paper, stationery, information technology, musical instruments and flush toilets keep appearing in her gratitude journal, and public speaking opportunities excite her.
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Cassandra Lee Yieng
Jillian Pierce
Jillian Pierce is NYC-born, NJ-raised, New England-based. Firm believer in karma, carbs, and the beauty of the written word.
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Jillian Pierce
Brian Cook
Brian Cook is an American astrophysicist at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. His focus is on computation-based research problems.
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Brian Cook
Kelsey Muller
Kelsey attended sewing camp as a kid and now is a fish tank aquascaping hobbyist. You could say she’s always been cool.
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Kelsey Muller
J'Exquisite Corpse
J'Exquisite Corpse is a method by which the unlikely duo of Jillian Conochan and John Papageorgiou collaborate across time and distance to build a story brick-by-bizarro-brick.
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J'Exquisite Corpse
Kathryn Falcone
Kathryn is an actor/hair braider/singer/crafter who has no idea how she managed to get a job as a Payroll Specialist at Johns Hopkins. She has a 4 year-old daughter named Sofia with her partner Sean.
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Kathryn Falcone
Matt Nelson
New England Dude/TV DVD Guy Matt Nelson operates mattnelsonreviews.com to support the weird & wonderful of vintage & indie video fare.
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Matt Nelson
LA Lewis
LA Lewis writes things. Usually scary things, sometimes funny things, almost always weird things. His greatest wish is to be a magical skeleton.
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LA Lewis
Becky Bennett
Becky Bennett is always looking for the next binge-worthy show to watch on her 2-hour daily commute. Getting by with a little help from her friends (and family). Keep right on!
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Becky Bennett
Alex & Amanda Bard
Alex and Amanda Bard live in New York with their puggle, Theo. One of them dislikes calamari, and the other hates cherries, blueberries, and the Yankees.
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Alex & Amanda Bard
Rachel Eck
Rachel (Insta: @rachel_e_lettering) is a graphic designer, podcast aficionado, and mom of the fastest little dude in his age bracket. Capable of rapping NY State of Mind in its entirety. Taller than you.
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Rachel Eck
Gabriel Loewenberg
Gabriel Loewenberg is a photographer and occasional writer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Sometimes he takes pictures of weird things, sometimes of cars, sometimes of rockets, and all too often of cats. His work can be seen at SonicGabe.com.
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Gabriel Loewenberg
Stephanie Tate
Stephanie is a Women’s Health nurse whose aspirations include dismantling the patriarchy and medical racism. She loves new friends, new pets, new places, and embracing her chaotic energy.
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Stephanie Tate
Michael Vanderlit
Michael Vanderlit is not Michael Vanderlit's real name, but he's just as funny as the real guy.
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Michael Vanderlit
Daniel Comer
Daniel is from Atlanta and enjoys sports writing, Yelp surfing, and sketch comedy. Sometimes at the same time, but never in the daytime.
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Daniel Comer
Ryan Murphy
Married to his high school sweetheart, expecting father, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, and the guy singing in the grocery store JUST above the acceptable decibel.
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Ryan Murphy
Josephine Bloomquist
Josephine Bloomquist is a third grade student living in Northern Virginia. She loves bows and dancing and hopes one day to become a YouTube sensation.
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Josephine Bloomquist
Madelyn Geyer
Originally hailing from Reading, Pennsylvania, Madelyn Geyer is a theater critic, writer, and lifelong lover of musicals now residing in Austin, Texas.
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Madelyn Geyer
Linda McMullen
Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in over 70 literary magazines.
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Linda McMullen
Joelle Ostrich
Mother and teacher in suburban Pennsylvania. Hoya, INFP, chaotic good, Virgo, skeptic. A member of the 45 percent. Firm believer that the Duplass brothers will save the world.
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Joelle Ostrich
Mr. Joe Walker
The cofounder of THISENT.com, writes act-of-kindness column "Shining Example," and hosts THIS podcast. Famous people call him. Binges on cookies. Sleeps very little.
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Mr. Joe Walker
Abi Hennig
Abi lives in Brighton by the sea. She spends her time teaching, writing mini stories, and losing gracefully at complicated board games. Her words pop up here and there and she will normally go on about it when they do.
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Abi Hennig
Dr. Bunny McFadden
Dr. Bunny McFadden (she/they) is a Chicana mother who tinkers with words for a living.
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Dr. Bunny McFadden
Barbara Taylor
Barbara Taylor is a boarding school/women's college survivor (and, alas, Ph.D. dropout) who disdains Facebook and Twitter. She lives and writes in North Carolina.
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Barbara Taylor
John Taylor
John Taylor works in the Green Industry. One salient question he has remains how an Adirondack chair, a wooden piece of lawn furniture, is that comfortable, and what does it have to do with Upstate New York?
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John Taylor
Chris Nahlik
Chris is a DC based sports fan and human being that never fancied himself as a writer, but goes wherever the world takes him.
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Lisbeth Mizula
I've been a secretary, waitress, actress, cook, counselor, dancer, reporter, stand up comedienne & joke writer, and I’ve sold books, cookies, magazines, diet supplements & fake handbags.
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Robert Kibble
Robert lives west of London with a cornucopia of half-finished writing projects. A few have been published over the years, which he has found very pleasing.
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Gavin Linehan
I put words in order so that you might feel a little better. Embracing the delightful chaos of the absurd, I find beauty in the unconventional and unexpected.
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Gavin Linehan
Carmen Baca
Carmen Baca taught high school and college English for 36 years before retiring in 2014. With a mix of English and regional Spanish dialect, she tells stories rich with traditions, customs, superstitions, folktales, and other facets of the culture.
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Lauren Royer
Lauren Royer is just a small town girl living in a lonely world (otherwise known as Pennsylvania). She is a working mom, a compulsive list-maker, and takes her kitchen dance moves very seriously.
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