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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.


Maybe you’re not the sharpest cookie in the jar. Maybe you mix up your figurative language and can’t keep your ducks like well-oiled machines. Well, then writing this week should be a walk in the cake!

This Week’s Writing Prompt: MIXED METAPHOR

This week, we’re looking for new original pieces, using MIXED METAPHOR 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 MIXED METAPHOR. It can be a personal essay, a poem, short story, script, or anything else original and fresh. 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 Friday July 10th at midnight EDT.

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