Your October winner & a sneak peak of what’s ahead — Hi there, Stella here. Just a quick note with some Writing Challenge updates… October winner Many thanks to Terijo of Intimately Intricate for running October’s Writing Challenge, Thunder. You can find all the published entries over at Intimately Intricate under the tag “Thunder Prompt”. …

Your October Writing Challenge is here! — This month, we’re passing the challenge baton over to Intimately Intricate, a Medium publication that “speaks to the demands of that intricate dance called life”. We love this simple but complex premise. …

Your September Writing Challenge is here! — Feeling funny? Quick-witted? Likely to describe yourself as having “a good sense of humor”? Maybe you want to work on honing your comedy skills? Well, this Writing Challenge is for you! We’re excited to announce that for our September Writing Challenge, we’re featuring Slackjaw, Medium’s most-followed humor site, which just…

Four years ago, I sent “The First and Possibly Last Letter” and then some time later I sent another letter just to remind you that I was still alive but not really navigating singledom anymore. Well, readers, the time has come to close up shop officially. “Officially” because as you…

Your August Writing Challenge Prompt — Note: This post contains affiliate links to products from one or more of our sponsors. The Writing Cooperative may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. We’re breaking some rules over here (just a few). It all started last month, when we did away with the July…

July’s Writing Challenge News — Last month, we turned over The Writing Challenge to our friends at The Bigger Picture. They asked to see your stories about the most memorable piece of mail you ever received. …

Join Us For June’s Writing Challenge with The Bigger Picture! — In college, our mailboxes were located in the basement level of the dining hall, which was a couple buildings over from our dorm. My dorm mates and I would occasionally stop to check our mail on our walk back from dinner to see if we’d been sent anything interesting. Sometimes…

Addiction is a constant fear your loved one might die — “How are you handling it? Do you think about it a lot?” “I wouldn’t say a lot, no. I guess I try not to think about it. It’s more like…like this constant thought lingering in the back of my mind. …

Writing Challenge News for the Month of May — If you’ve not yet heard, the May Writing Challenge is up and running over at The Chalkboard. This month’s challenge really exemplifies the whole idea of collaboration: you’ll have to create a magnet poem. What is a magnet poem? Magnet poetry is a type of found poetry where you take phrases from existing poems, cut…