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Best High School Writing Prompts

Join our ongoing contests and win up to $1,500. Flex those creative muscles with these writing prompts.

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This week's contest:
Win $250

Tension, Twists, and Turns with WOW!

144 contest entries /
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Set your story in study hall.

Write a story about a social media rumor.

Write a story about a salutatorian.

It's the summer before college, and your character has one last goodbye to make.

Write a story about someone who thinks their life is a romcom and they’re the protagonist.

– 15 stories

Write a story about someone who overthinks every single thing, blowing the tiniest incidents out of proportion.

– 16 stories

Start your story with a daydream sequence, before snapping back to reality.

– 63 stories

Begin your story with somebody getting (or taking) the blame for something they didn’t do.

– 40 stories

Write a story about coming of age in a big city.

– 14 stories

Start your story with someone sharing a secret that has a big impact on everyone.

– 38 stories

End your story with someone dancing in the rain.

– 55 stories

Write a story where the law plays an important role.

– 24 stories

Write a story that includes the line “I can’t believe we’re arguing over this.”

– 60 stories

Include a character in your story that is often in an apartment building, but doesn’t actually live there.

– 37 stories

Set your story in an unlikely sanctuary.

– 34 stories

Set your story at a global fashion event — or a carnival ball.

– 20 stories

Write a story that centres around an Instagram post.

– 20 stories

Write a story about a conflict that breaks out over something ordinary (like tea, perhaps).

– 26 stories

Write about a character, animal or human, who is reborn as something totally different.

– 42 stories

Write a story where a character runs into someone they’ve seen in their dreams, or enters a building they’ve dreamt about before.

– 229 stories

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