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 May, 2023
Weekly Contest #345
Kevin had been late getting out of Toronto and the five hour drive home to Ottawa was just half over and yet already felt ten hours long. He’d been selling steels and alloys for eight years, and that felt long, too. Highway 401 through Ontario is boring, a nearly straight shot for eight hundred kilometers from Michigan to Quebec that passes through almost nothing of interest, bypassing every downtown. There aren’t even any mountains. Not that it mattered to Kevin at this point, as it was one in the morning. The client, a blowhard, had in...
Winner of Weekly Contest #340 🏆
VIDEO: Most Valuable S3E7 “Six Home Runs” air: 6 October 2016 dir. Henry Yang CAROLYN GENNARO: Welcome to “Most Valuable” on Showtime, interviewing the athletes at the heart of the greatest moments in sports. This week, we discuss one of the most remarkable performances in Major League Baseball’s long history of postseason heroics; Ryan Mercier’s unprecedented display of power in the 1994 World Series. We’re here in Ryan’s home in Glendale, California. Ryan, thanks so much for having us. (Ryan Mercier nods at the camera and shifts in his ch...
Weekly Contest #315
Nate’s bag didn’t come out. “Son of a bitch.” The other people on his flight were there, taking bags. He checked one going by and it was his flight number. He walked around, looked carefully, even checked the ones that sort of looked like his in case the little souvenir luggage tag he’s gotten from Hawaii had fallen off. It wasn’t there. He was stuck at O’Hare without his suitcase. “Son of a goddamned bitch.” Eight hours’ travel, counting delays, from Seattle. It was late. It was at best an hour’s drive home. Nate trudged up to the luggage s...
Weekly Contest #308
After I woke up and ate some food and drank some water, I walked into the outside today in the hot light where the birds and the mice are because mommy left the outside door open and so I could go there. Sometimes I ask her to go to the outside but she does not let me, and she gives me cookies. I like cookies but I like the birds more and I want to catch them and eat them. First I sat near the door and looked. I could see a lot of grass and other human things far away. Then I jumped up on some furniture that was outside, near the door, and l...
Weekly Contest #306
Thank you, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Ha ha ha, alright. Thank you. Guys, I’m not the Pope. Thank you. Thank you. My goodness, normally people aren’t that happy to see me walk onstage if I’m not carrying a guitar.Well, who’d have thought I, of all people, would be giving the commencement address at a place like Brown? Or that I’d be given this fancy gown and an honorary doctorate? I’ve no doubt your President, Dr. Holman, approved me as a speaker because I’m famous and not so much for my academic achievements, but, I did do some resear...
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email:
7 likes
