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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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Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

– 158 stories

Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

– 82 stories

Write about someone fighting to keep their city neighborhood the same.

– 34 stories

Write about someone fighting to change their city neighborhood for the better.

– 44 stories

Start your story with the line, “That’s the thing about this city…”

– 282 stories

Write a story that takes place in the same building but in two very different time periods.

– 154 stories

Set your story in a major city that your character has a love-hate relationship with.

– 150 stories

Start your story with a character struggling to remember the date, because every day is like the last one.

– 175 stories

Write about someone who’s trying to accomplish a task that used to be easy but is now made complicated by a pandemic.

– 80 stories

Set your story in a post-pandemic world, where the effects are still felt even as your character attempts to move on.

– 114 stories

Write about someone who grew up in a bunker, and lockdown life is all they’ve ever known.

– 81 stories

Write a story that spans exactly a year and takes place in a single room.

– 209 stories

Write a fantasy story about water gods or spirits.

– 225 stories

Write about someone who books a bargain vacation, only to be told when they arrive that they need to share a hotel suite with a stranger.

– 148 stories

Write about someone who’s lived on a tropical island their whole life and is leaving it for the very first time.

– 83 stories

Start your story with someone emerging from the sea, and end it with them looking up at the stars.

– 274 stories

Write about someone who goes to extreme lengths to get themselves to a tropical island.

– 91 stories

Write about an android just trying to blend in with their human companions.

– 221 stories

Write a near-future thriller where a piece of everyday technology has turned against your character — and only your character.

– 129 stories

Write a historical fiction story about someone working at a company that helped revolutionize early computers.

– 17 stories

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