Let’s All Go On A Summer Holiday
Lit Up Updates and our Summer Holiday Prompt
Lovely Lit Up Community,
It makes me extremely happy and grateful to see how many of you are interested in publishing with us, and to hear all these heart-warming words you email me regarding this Land of Little Tales. I know that you don’t hear from me often these days, and if it wasn’t for Peculiar Julia and Dermott Hayes Lit Up wouldn’t be running at all, but I would like to thank you for sticking with us, and for your continuous trust and support.
Life has indeed gotten the best of me, and I am fully aware that I’ve already attempted and failed to get back as active on Medium as I used to be, however, I am giving it another try, and I am also taking this chance to express in advance my most sincere gratitude to all of you who will support me and this effort.
Without further ado, Dermott Hayes, our prompt editor, has come up with another of his splendid ideas. So how about a new prompt?
Oh welcome dear summer,
with your rush of green and
splendid colour,
were it not for winter
I would sit with you forever
Summer Poem, Ronan Gallagher
Everyone has a summer memory of lazy days of sunshine and flowers, ice cream cones with chocolate melting faster than we can brain freeze, the alluring charred waft of barbecue, golden beaches, stretched in the distance, the promise of wild abandon meeting someone new.
Dig deep and trawl your memories for those periwinkles of your past.
Let’s all go on a Summer Holiday Prompt, tell us your story as flash fiction (less than 1,000 words) or poetry.
Prompt details:
Submissions open: Today
Submissions close: July 17th, 2022
What to submit:
Flash Fiction: Up to 1000 words
Poetry: No form restriction.
Please subtitle your draft: ‘Lit Up Summer Holiday Prompt’ so we can find your submissions in the queue.
If you’re not a Lit Up writer yet, please submit your tales here:
Form
We can’t wait to read your little tales!
P.S. Please note that Lit Up publishes prompt entries every Wednesday (and Thursday when there are no Tales in Parts in line for publication) so make sure you submit in a timely manner as indicated in each prompt announcement. Of course, our editing process will follow our submission guidelines as usual.
And with this opportunity, I would also like to thank all our writers who submitted their precious little tales for our last prompt, and our magnificent readers who supported them.
In case you missed them, here is the full list of entries which you can also access through our ‘Prompts’ tab.
The Prompt:
DiAmaya Dawn — Lit Up: Spring Prompt 2022
Our lovely entries:
Dale E. Lehman — Welcome To Reality
Dermott Hayes — Reality
Toni Crowe — The Visit
Iva Hotko — Life Is …
V. Plut — Walk of Life
Pamela Edwards — Forget Reality. I Live in an Enchanted Garden.
Camilla Meshiea — None of It Is Imagined
Elle Fredine — Reality’s Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Georgiana Petec — We’re Strawberry Flowers
Iva Hotko — Reaction To An Action
Amy L. Bernstein — Her Lot
Iva Hotko — Life And Time — The Lost Reality Of Stars
Marcos Wagner — Love’s Spooky, Entangled Reality
Kristy McGilvray — What Reality?
Manisha Sahoo — She Could
Gitanjali Murari — REALITEA
Marcos Wagner — The Devil on the Avenue, at High Speed
And before we say “au revoir”, I just want to ask you if you’re enjoying these prompts, if you have any suggestions for us (anything you’d like to see on Lit Up), and if you have anything else you wanted to tell us :) I’d be happy to read your comments…even if you just want to say hi, it will still give us an idea about our community’s status and how active we still are. At the end of the day, we might work hard for this publication, but without you, there wouldn’t be any point to it…would there? 😉
That’s all for today
Until next time, don’t forget to love, live, and create.
Love,
DiAmaya Dawn
