PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #11

For Dec 18th — 24th

Ravyne Hawke

Published in

Promptly Written

10 min readDec 26, 2021

Greetings PW Writers and Readers. The pub is open and decorated in holiday cheer! The liquor and beer bar and the coffee and tea bar are both open. The center table is filled with holiday snacks and goodies. Grab yourselves a drink and a snack, and get yourselves settled in.

I want to thank all of you for your contributions, read time, and responses during this third week of December. Remember, clapping and commenting on one another’s work is what makes PW a community. Let’s continue to encourage one another by visiting each others’ stories and supporting one another. I would hate to lose writers because they don’t feel like their work is being appreciated here on PW. Your interactions here continue to make PW a success!

A special thank you to my editors, Alyse Rowe and Katrina D. for their help this past week. I appreciate you both for taking the time to help out!

If you have any issues or questions about anything dealing with Promptly Written, feel free to contact me — Email: ravynehawke@gmail.com

🎆🎇SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT🎆🎇

Promptly Written is taking December 31st-January 1st off.

What will this mean for you as a writer here at PW? Just publishing turn-around time. The prompts will come out as usual. The pub will be open to receive your work. However, there will be a 48–72 hr publication turn-around time. That’s all.

I want to allow everyone who celebrates New Year’s Day to not feel constrained to write during this time and to give my editors and me a much-needed break during the holidays. However, should the desire to write appear, you will still have prompts and be able to submit your work. It will just take longer for your work to be published.

🩸🩸🩸PERSONAL FYI🩸🩸🩸

I have two upcoming doctor appointments — One on December 28th and another on December 30th. Neither should interfere with publishing your work. Your work just may get published at odd hours.

💥💥ANNOUNCEMENTS💥💥

I have revamped the Home Page. Hopefully, it will make it easier for you to find all the stories, prompts, and PW News. If you scroll to the end, you will find Trending Stories and Latest Stories. Otherwise, everything else has its own separate box. Please go and familiarize yourselves with it.
I have also updated the Submissions Page. All of the extras that I usually put into these weekly newsletters can now be found there. Please go and check the page out and leave a comment letting me know that you have read and understood all the guidelines.
If you have not taken the End-of-Year Surveys, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline for taking them is December 28th. This is your chance to express your feelings about Promptly Written, the editorial team, the prompts, and the engagement of writers and readers here at PW. The surveys are anonymous! So feel free to speak your mind!

As part of my End-of-Year Reviews, please check out these three reviews. The first two are poetry. The third is fiction. If you have time, please read, clap and comment on these stories. Thank you!

End Of Year Review #1

How Can This Be?

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End Of Year Review #2

Let’s keep the momentum going!

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End Of Year Review #3

The Fiction Edition

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📣📣📣CALLS TO ACTION📣📣📣

Winston over at Coffee Times has another challenge going on. We have many writers for PW participating. Can you all please go read, clap, and comment on their essays so they can participate in the challenge? The Deadline for writers to qualify is December 31st. Can we get them to 1k claps by then? YES! Thank you!

Win $100 For Making a New Year’s Resolution

Have you ever seen a writing competition that changes your life just by participating?

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Charlie Cole — A Remedy for Resolution

Mayuresh Belsare — Preparing for a transition in 2022

Umme Salma — New Year Resolution 2022: Let the Sunshine Reach You

Christina DeFeo — Resolutions and Affirmations

Suma Narayan — Stay Close :Don’t Go Yet

Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — 12 Days of Christmas Coffee Challenge YEAR 2022 COMING IN TO CHANGE

Sam Finlayson — 2021: The Year I Lost and Found Myself

💥Mayuresh, Umme, & Christina 💥— remember to go back to Coffee Times and register your essays if you haven’t already done so!!!

And if you can find the time, there are 19 other participants that could use some help too. Check out this list

Did you know that PW has SEVEN Features? Well, we do! Check out the Submission Guidelines to find out how you too can have your own featured spot on PW!

Marc Barham continues to delight us with his supernatural horror series The Noise. There are now 23 parts to the story. If you like Vampires, Werewolves, and other supernatural beings, you will love this! Please stop by, read, clap, comment, and support Marc!
NIDAA has begun a series of flash fiction stories based on the theme “The Dots” and each story is unique and fascinating to read. Please stop by, have a read, give a clap and leave Nidaa a supportive comment.
Our very own Fifi Leigh is writing reviews and gifting us with glimpses of her life! You can find all of her articles by clicking this link. Please go have a read, clap, comment, and support her work.
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards has a new featured spot! You can find his poems and essays by clicking this link. Please go have a read, clap, comment, and support his work.
Our lovely jules has a new featured section called Jules Interpretations Of Poetry. Help her explore the ins and outs of poetry by reading, clapping, and commenting on her pieces.
Jackson Barr Stories will be posting Act II of his serial fiction Sleeping Gods here at PW! You can read Act I on his feature page now. Please go have a read, clap, comment, and support his work.
Mireille has begun a feature on recommendations — movies, books & more. You can find her short forms by clicking this link. Please go have a read, clap, comment, and support her work.

🎇🎇🎇OTHER PROMOTIONS🎇🎇🎇

I’ve started a new publication called Not For Bedtime Stories — Serials for Breakfast. Please visit the Submission Guidelines if you are interested in writing a Serial Fiction with an edge.

Suma Narayan has begun her serial All My Sisters

Cara J. Jaye has begun her serial PSPARKLES PSYCHOSIS

I have begun my serial Revenge of the Ravens.

Come check them out and get in on them at the beginning!

💞💞💞HONORABLE MENTIONS💞💞💞

Check out these amazing fiction pieces from T. Mark Mangum

Cheap Tricks

Maoules the Wizard

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Divided Lands

The sword.

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🍁♉️Chacha Jaramillo✏️🇨🇦 has been writing some amazing poetry! Check out these

Gingerbread Man

Hey Gingerbread man

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Snow flakes

A silent call from our planet

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Tears

Awaken by senses

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🟤STAT NEWS FOR DEC 18th — 24th AT PW🟤

227 Total Writers (2 new writers Dec 18th-24th)

61 Stories Published

💥STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN DEC 18th-24th At PW💥

POETRY

Ali — A Joyful Noise
jules — Purple Grass Grows Violet Capes
Joanne Olivieri — Baring Your Soul 💠 I Don’t Need It 💠 Wishing
Kimberly Hampton Nilsson — Conversations with a Fish
Sharing Words — For My Sister
Stephen Chamberlin — Quitter 💠 Adnuntiatio
Rhonda Marrone — Violet is the Color…
Shagufta — The way you treated her
Rane Kelze — The Gift Box 💠 Sleigh Ride
Fifi Leigh — Haiku for 12.20.21
Mihai Brinas — Unknown Stories 💠 A Light in the Night 💠 The Same Thing
Mia Seleccion — Womanhood in Mountains
Neera Handa Dr — Shades of purple
Cendrine Marrouat — Vardhaku: Winter
Suzanne Pisano — Summer Sky
Tas (they/them) — The Heaviest Burden
Sujona Chatterjee — Your Last Call Was Where the Healing Started
AK (Aaska Aejaz) — Goodbye December!
Judey Kalchik — Go, Tell It On The Mountain
Sam Finlayson — Finding the Gift In The Darkness
Nivetha krishnan — Oh, My Beloved Christmas!

FICTION

Neera Handa Dr — First snow fall
C. Chou — An Unusual Skating Trip 💠 Holiday Shopping Goes Awry 💠 A Holiday Blessed by Calla Lilies
Marc Barham — The Emperor of Tears. 💠 The Noise (Part 22) 💠 The Noise (Part 23)
NIDAA — The incomplete love story
Shanice Lawton — Road Love
Amanda Gravely — The Voice at the Rink
Jackson Barr Stories — Welcome to the Sleeping Gods Universe

PERSONAL ESSAYS | CREATIVE NONFICTION | ARTICLES

💥💥STORIES PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE 💥💥

This is a list of stories writers published in other publications using PW Prompts!

NOTE: If you wrote a story using a PW Prompt during the week of Dec 11th — 17th, published it somewhere other than PW and I missed it, please leave a comment with the URL to your story so that I can read it and recognize your contribution in the next newsletter! I don’t always receive all of my notifications.

Thanks again everyone for contributing to PW this past week. Please take the time to read your fellow writers’ work. Claps and Comments are always appreciated. I look forward to more of your stories in the upcoming weeks.

Ravyne Hawke, EIC

PW WRITERS

NEW WRITERS FOR WEEK OF DEC 18th-24th

Shereen Bingham | Rotimi-Ibitoye Faith |

PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #11

For Dec 18th — 24th

🎆🎇SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT🎆🎇

End Of Year Review #1

How Can This Be?

End Of Year Review #2

Let’s keep the momentum going!

End Of Year Review #3

The Fiction Edition

Win $100 For Making a New Year’s Resolution

Have you ever seen a writing competition that changes your life just by participating?

Cheap Tricks

Maoules the Wizard

Divided Lands

The sword.

Gingerbread Man

Hey Gingerbread man

Snow flakes

A silent call from our planet

Tears

Awaken by senses

Written by Ravyne Hawke