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Each week, we issue a writing prompt to our own staff, guest contributors, and readers like you. We welcome guest submissions, so if you’re interested in being featured or regularly contributing to the site, email your responses to kelaine.conochan [at] thepromptmag.com.


Hoooooo-weeee! It’s been a year, hasn’t it? From protests to pandemics, from elections to contesting results, from Kobe to RBG. As a creative community, we’ve felt every negative emotion, with a few positive moments mixed in. And sometimes, it was really really hard to find that spark. But we did it. We’re here. It wasn’t easy, and it took a lot of courage, but we made it to the end of 2020.

It’s not that everything will suddenly heal and be better at the stroke of midnight, when 2020 turns to 2021. But it is worth looking back, reflecting on this manmade disaster of a year. What stood out to you?

This Week’s Writing Prompt: 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW

This week, we’re looking for new original pieces, using 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW as our prompt.

If you’ve got an inspired ideas about how to respond to this week’s prompt, send us your submission of 400-700 words. Write us anything that comes to mind when you think of 2020 YEAR IN REVIEW. It can be a personal essay, a poem, short story, script, or anything else original and fresh. Ironic or sincere, real or imagined—just make it worth our while and we’ll publish it, include it in our newsletter, and give you the chance to join the creative, talented staff writers here at The Prompt.

Email your responses to kelaine.conochan@thepromptmag.com by Sunday December 27th at midnight EST.

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