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This month on Engage, we’ve asked our writers to consider the dawn of a new lunar cycle.
The Lunar New Year is well on its way, so in the spirit of the zeitgeist, earlier this month we asked our authors to join a new and enticing challenge to celebrate the year of the dragon.
Engage is now under the Alchemy Publications umbrella and we’ve planned a series of writing challenges focusing on Heritage Months.
This month, our sister publication, Rock n'Heavy, has asked writers to revisit the music of resistance during Black History Month.
For March, we’ve planned to honor Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.
So if you enjoy our prompts, you can start drafting your stories under these topics, as we will be delighted to publish them.
Meanwhile, there’s still time for you to join our ongoing challenge on Engage:
Engage Your Creative Spark in the Year of the Dragon
Join us in our new writing challenge celebrating the Lunar New Year
Community Corner
Engage is a community-centric publication. That’s why our niche is You! We want to be a haven for writers and their engaging personal stories.
With that in mind, we aim to amplify your voice by cross-pollinating your stories.
To boost your creative spark and help get you inspired, here are some enticing challenge stories shared by our authors:
Where You Direct Your Attention This Year is Where You Live Your Life
What does that have to do with the Year of the Dragon?
By Runa Heilung 🌻
Finding Light in Darkness
A friendship story across cultures
By Tabitha Warren
A special salute
Today in our “community corner,” I also want to take a vow to the astounding work our editors do every single day to make your stories shine.
There’s no better way to show your appreciation than by offering them the gift of your precious time and reading their stories:
Drawing Readers to Your Stories Like Moths to a Flame
Engage’s mission statement 2.0
By DJ apex
How to Be a “Real Writer” In 2024 by Springing These Traps
Some may surprise you
By Henry India Holden💖
A Retrospective on Self-Care in Action
Becoming self-aware takes practice
By Margie Pearl
More from the community
Even at Nice Hotels…Stuff Happens
Finding humour in life on the road
By Andre Begin
Appreciate Every Sunrise
Life’s too short to be miserable
By David J. Elrod
What’s Wrong With Using AI To Write?
Just ask my grandpa!
By Leonard Tillerman
Vinyl Records Are Making a Comeback
I always felt they would
By Michael Rhodes
Closing notes
I want to wrap this up with a couple of reminders for our authors, regarding the importance of adding alt-text to your images, among other details like crediting and linking to sources.
Please take time to make your stories more visually enticing and accessible to readers.
If you want to know more about how to nail your featured image on Engage, I recommend reading this story.
It’s also important to tag your stories with relevant topics. Before sending your story to us, take a moment to explore the platform’s topics page.
Choose your first topic carefully, as this one will be shown under the story title on any of the platform’s feeds.
To improve searchability and traceability, we also ask you to add “Engage” as one of the five topics.
That’s all for now, but if you have any questions, drop us a query below and we’ll get back to you.
Thank you for reading and writing!
