Call for submissions

Let’s celebrate One Liners

and National Poetry Month, too

Did you know that we have done 69 one liner prompts here on Chalkboard? Major props to everyone who has participated in this project!

Today we kick off a month of one liner celebrations here on Chalkboard. Instead of giving you a single prompt for the week of April 4th, we are opening this week up to new pieces that celebrate our past prompts.

All 69 prompts (Word cloud made via https://www.wordclouds.com/)

You may have noticed there are already several submissions on our feature page. These pieces are samples for this project. But they are also a celebration in themselves. Each piece is about one or more of our prompts. Some are one liners made up of past prompts. Some are multi-stanza pieces, where each stanza is about one past prompt. Some are new submissions about a favorite prompt. These pieces were done by Chalkboard’s editors and a special crew I call my Emergency Prompters.

Where do you come in?

Submit your own piece(s) inspired by our one liner community and their works. Pick a word or six from the graphic and get writing. Submissions will be accepted through the end of April. This project will be archived after the first of May.

If you want your pieces published by Chalkboard:

1. Do your best to keep pieces on individual prompts under 30 words.
2. If you are writing about multiple prompts, you may submit multi-stanza pieces. Please keep your stanzas under 30 words each.
3. Link the prompts you use to the original prompt of that title. For example: If you use words, link it to last week’s prompt.
4. Tag your submission(s) with the tag “Celebration Prompt”
5. Make sure your piece has an image attached that is at least 900 pixels on a side.
6. Add attribution for your image
7. Submit your piece(s) for publication here on Chalkboard

Not a writer but want to be? Let us know! Check out our Participate tab.

Don’t want to worry about your word counts? No problem! Submit your pieces elsewhere (or publish them yourself) and then drop a link in a response to this story!

Thank you! All of you!

I want you all to know that I really appreciate everyone’s participation in this project. I love getting the prompts, I love seeing your responses, I love hearing what you think of my responses. The last year and a quarter has been a very strange one for me. This project has given me a touchpoint every week. Wednesdays are special days — because of you.