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Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday, May 20th at 5PM (live Zoom) This month's prompt: What I Hunger For... Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing. ZOOM LINK
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Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday April 15th at 5PM (live Zoom) This month's prompt: Based on “Two Septembers” by Gordon Grice, create a dichotomy of two moments, thoughts, objects, relationships, memories, people, pets, emotions, beliefs, encounters with wildlife, nature, societal rules, familial or societal expectations, unexpected kindness or rudeness, anything! Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing. ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday March 18th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: The Golden Shovel (Created by Terrance Hayes in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks - read about it here) How to write a Golden Shovel: Take a line from a poem or a piece of writing that is meaningful to you, and use each consecutive word of the line as the last word of each line or sentence you write. For example: "Love is a battlefield" becomes I go out looking for a fight, or for love, it's all the same to me, as life is but one atom glomming to another, or falling a- way, each dawn a new dance on the battlefield Doesn't have to be a poem! Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday February 18th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: "Write what cannot be written." For example: ~An index for a biography of a person that was never born ~Exhibit labels for a series of paintings that have not been painted ~A critical review of an album that hasn't been recorded ~A glossary for a textbook in a yet undiscovered field of study ~An instruction manual for a device that hasn't been invented Or come up with your own (you're creative!). Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday January 21st at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: "Something used for a purpose for which it wasn't intended" Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday December 17th at 5PM (live Zoom) Community Writing from the Comfort of Your Home! This month's prompts (pick one or combine): "The Week Before the Night Before Christmas" Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday November 19th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompts (pick one or combine): "Sex Ed" or Create something for the Writing by Writers Short Short Writing Contest Win FREE tuition to your choice of one of our two generative workshops. "Get The Lead Out" is an online workshop with faculty Pam Houston, Chip Livingston & Sequoia Nagamatsu, and the "Boulder Workshop" is an in-person workshop with faculty Kaveh Akbar, Pam Houston, and Ramona Ausubel in Colorado. RULES: Your piece can be fiction, non fiction, memoir or poetry but it must contain a food known for its consumption during a particular holiday, the name of a deciduous tree, a lyric from a 70's song, the name of a breed of horse, a geologic event and the name of a constellation. WORD LIMIT: 250 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 1, 2022 https://wxw.submittable.com/submit/241567/short-short-writing-contest-2023 Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.SALON ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday October 15th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompts (pick one or combine): 1. Write about your earliest superstition. 2. What is the longest time you ever waited for someone or something? 3. Unwanted information comes to you through a surprising channel. 4. A grown-up who does not play well with others. Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday September 17th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: A vanilla bean in a jar of sugar, an old boot, an old guitar that no longer plays, earbuds found in a rental car, a woven Kleenex box, a framed picture of my granddaughter and me at the tower of London, a cat asleep on the desk Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday August 20th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: "Growth is not inevitable" Use the prompt or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing. ZOOM LINK |
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