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

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Set your story in the kitchen of a bustling restaurant.

– 37 stories

Write a story about a magician who never reveals their secrets — until now.

– 28 stories

A journalist has been granted permission to visit the premises of a lab carrying out top-secret work. They could never have anticipated what they’d find…

– 38 stories

Write about a person who constantly has to put on a persona (e.g. at work, in their relationships, etc.) who can finally drop the facade.

– 80 stories

Set your story on a film or TV set, starting with someone calling “Cut!”

– 45 stories

Set your story in an eerie, surreal setting.

– 80 stories

Write about a character in a situation where they have to be brave for someone else’s sake.

– 59 stories

Start your story with a character seeing something terrifying.

– 52 stories

Write a story that contains a flashback of a nightmare.

– 61 stories

Write about someone facing their greatest fear.

– 108 stories

Write about a character who breaks free from a tradition to create a new one.

– 25 stories

Make a character perform a ceremony to set something or someone free.

– 53 stories

Write about a character who develops a special ritual to cope with something.

– 89 stories

Make your protagonist go through a rite of passage.

– 52 stories

Start your story during a full moon night.

– 80 stories

Write a story about someone seeking revenge for a past wrong.

– 71 stories

Write a Western-inspired story in a new genre or setting (e.g. a space western, fantasy western, etc.)

– 77 stories

Write a story about someone undertaking a long, dangerous journey.

– 39 stories

Set your story in a desert town.

– 51 stories

Write a story about a stranger coming to town and shaking up the order of things.

– 55 stories

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