Challenge
The woman who may or may not have insulted me. Honorable Mention in The Posthumous Author Challenge.
The thirty-second encounter It's not the first time I’ve grabbed my pen to write about this author. Or the fifth. But it is the first time I’ve actually published a piece.
By Cristal S.3 months ago in Writers
What the Writer Left Behind
The desk, still scarred by the chaos from a category 5 brainstorm, tells us much about the writer. Scrap paper wedged between crinkled pages in journals stacked on top of each other weaves together the family generations of a main character’s love interest. Judging by what the notes are written on, it seemed she worked a handful of jobs with spare slips of paper that she could jot ideas down without attracting attention in her down time. She’d be far from the only writer who inherited the family curse of poverty.
By Elizabeth Kaye Daugherty3 months ago in Writers
From First Meeting to Long-Term Partnership
Every long-term partnership begins somewhere. Often it begins with a first meeting, a short introduction or a conversation that appears ordinary at the time. What happens next determines whether that introduction becomes a meaningful relationship or disappears completely.
By Shane Murphy3 months ago in Writers
The Woman of 1000 Journals. Top Story - July 2026.
Soon into tracking her journals, Ariana was known to make people guess what number journal she was working on. Five years from when she first started, she was on number 67 (so close…). When she first told me, my only response was “prolific.”
By Ariana GonBon3 months ago in Writers
A sidewalk Without Footsteps, a Voice Left Behind: The legacy of Henrik Hageland. Top Story - July 2026.
The author Henrik Hageland is dead. Why on earth should I care? A piece of news as empty as a sucked-out coconut. Hard to crack open, and perhaps a hell of a mess once you succeed?
By Henrik Hageland3 months ago in Writers
Frankly, Dead. Runner-Up in The Posthumous Author Challenge.
A dead writer is a text with no author to defend it. Nicky Frankly should be judged the way she feared being judged: competent until proven creative. That charge was planted by a professor of philosophy during her second (of four) stints in graduate school. "Your writing is good," they said, "but not creative." Every appraisal of her work since has been, whether it knows it or not, a verdict on that sentence. From her early Start Here quarry, where she hewed the unflattering years, to her later Machine Gospel cathedral, where she enshrined the ordinary inside a myth, Nicky dressed her words with rhinestones.
By Nicky Frankly3 months ago in Writers
Baby
Baby, who are you? Are you one that can be small, but easy? Take care baby for we will see how you look in a way soon. You are to go far if you want to go far. Go, baby go! Go far as far as you can go. Baby, you are one that can see, but can you see what you have to see? Baby, you are to be. Find your way to live and you will see what you want to be. Baby, see what you need to see, and you may just get what you want to see. Go, baby go and you may want to see and hear what they have to say to you in your own way. You will need to roll over and sit a bit, but you will be able to look and see and hear what you need to, for you will be a good baby so that we will love you so much and give you a hug an hour to show our love for you. Go, baby go and grow and be who you want to be. Just be you and you will be a go. Now go anywhere!
By Mark Graham3 months ago in Writers
Thought Process. Top Story - July 2026.
Like every challenge that ever pops up, I was immediately intimidated by Paul's 'Explicate my Poem' unofficial challenge. I've been thinking about this one for days. I genuinely hate picking apart other people's work right in front of them. Makes me feel icky. 🥴
By Sara Wilson3 months ago in Writers
