reedsymarketplace
Assemble a team of professionals
reedsystudio
The writing app for authors
reedsylearning
Writing courses, events and memberships
reedsydiscovery
Get your book reviewed
reedsyprompts
Weekly writing prompts and contests
Writing courses, events and conferences
Upcoming events
Writing a Memoir Readers Will Love
May 17, 2026
How to Write a Winning Short Story
May 05, 2026
The Secret to Writing Memorable Characters
May 04, 2026
Romantasy: Breaking into Publishing's Bestselling Genre
April 19, 2026
Learn how to succeed as a writer from the best in the business.
Every writer needs a Studio
Check out our writing app for authors!
Menu
More apps built by Reedsy
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024
Weekly Contest #347
Claire had already done the hardest thing once.After near six years of silence, of being “ghosted,” on a night that felt like this one, she had written Daniel—her former best friend, her first love, the center of confusion that had threaded through thirty years—a letter she never thought she’d have the courage to send. She had set it on her desk, poised over the page, fingers hovering, heart hammering softly in her ears, and then she had let it go. She wrote him a quiet, unadorned truth after decades of almosts and silences. You mattered, sh...
Weekly Contest #311
A Thousand Sundays Claire hadn’t expected the quiet to suit her as well as it did. She’d spent years in the whirlwind of public life: committee hearings, campaign buses, news cycles that never stopped spinning. But here in this Midwestern college town, the silence felt soft instead of sharp. A hum of birdsong on Sunday mornings. The low murmur of NPR in the kitchen. Her own voice, singing alto in the Episcopal church choir, steady and certain. Her house was small. It was an old craftsman cottage with a porch swing, a tangled garden she was ...
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email:
8 likes
