PW NEWS
Weekly News and Updates #27
For June 8th-14th 2022
Greetings, me lovelies! Can you believe it is already the middle of June? Time sure has a way of getting away from me when I am having fun! How about with you? By the look of things, we’ve been having a ton of fun here at PW this past week. And guess what? It’s that lovely time again. Time for all of you to belly-up to the bar, grab a drink and a snack, and sit back for some PW News and updates! Let’s get into it, shall we?
THANK YOU!
As always, I like to begin these newsletters with a moment of gratitude. Running PW and being allowed to publish all of your amazing stories is what I am most grateful for in my life these days. Your stories never fail to bring me joy and allow me to live out one of my passions — being an editor and publisher. So I want to thank all of you, our writers, for your work and for choosing PW to publish it in. I also want to extend that gratitude to all of the readers out there who subscribe to PW and read our work.
I want to thank our amazing Editorial and Prompt Staff for your hard work keeping the pub running when I am on breaks. Your continued dedication to PW is immensely appreciated. Thank you all so much! My heart is overflowing with gratitude.
As a reminder, here are your Editors and Prompt Writers:
Owner/Editor-in-Chief — Ravyne Hawke
Editorial Team — Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, Alyse Rowe, Katrina D., Charlie Cole, Rose Malana, & Cendrine Marrouat
Prompt Team — Ravyne Hawke, Christine Graves, Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, Rose Malana
Story Curator — Charlie Cole
Line Editor — Rose Malana (You can find out about Rose’s services here — Hi! I’m Your Line Editor.)
Twitter Consultant and Poetry Form creator extraordinaire — Cendrine Marrouat
CHALLENGES AND COLLABORATIONS
We have a new writing challenge going on this month! Check out the details here:
And PW is collaborating with Cendrine Marrouat’s publication, Auroras & Blossoms, for PoArtMo! Check out the details here:
💜GATHERING SPACE FOR PW WRITERS AND READERS💜
We have a new gathering space for PW writers and readers on Slack. This is an opportunity for you to be able to interact with me, your EIC, as well as some of the others in the Editorial Team. If you would like to join the Slack Workspace, email me with “Slack Workspace” in the subject line. My email address — ravynehawke@gmail.com
FYI
My Work Hours
I will be available to read, edit and publish your work Monday thru Thursday from 12:00 am — 8:00 am US CDT.
💠NOTE: I will not be available on June 19–21st. Charlie Cole and Rose Malana will be acting editors and publishers those three days.
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman is the weekend editor.
💠NOTE: Marcus aka Gregory Maidman will not be available on June 17–19th. I will be the acting editor and publisher on the 17th & 18th.
If you need editing assistance for your work, you can let me know at the email address above (or if you join our Slack Gathering space, you can leave me or Rose a PM there). Rose Malana is our line editor and is willing to help you make your stories as error-free as possible. Check out her invitation to work with you:
The other editors will read, edit and publish your stories during the day as time and their personal schedules allow. None of us are paid editors.
Please give us a 24–72-hour window to get your work published.
💠NOTE: I have made changes to the Submission Guidelines. I have removed the Zero Tolerance policy as I explained here:
PROMPTS
- Here is your MONTHLY THEME FOR JUNE
2. All other prompts can be found under PROMPTILICIOUSNESS
- Weekly prompts and A Word A Day prompts by Christine Graves
- Nature-related prompts by Rose Malana,
- MidWeek Micro Food prompts by Ravyne Hawke
- Sunday Spiritual-themed prompts by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
3. NOTE: For writers of Haiku, Senryu, Tanka and other micropoetry, all of our prompts can be turned into micropoems.
PROMPTLY WRITTEN FEATURES
NOTE: We will no longer be accepting new features here at PW. Because of the uncertainty with publication formatting, we never know when Medium will force us to use their new format. Should this happen, we will lose all of our feature pages. I encourage everyone who already has a feature page to gather your work in Lists and add those lists to the bottom of any stories you submit here at PW. We do have 17 Features on the Homepage if you’d like to have a peek.
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
- Know Thyself, Heal Thyself — 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 & 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴. KTHT offers Weekly prompts and challenges.
- Artique — Share your artistic creations with us and the inspiration behind your work. Artique accepts art, photography, and music creations.
- Sci-Fi Shorts — A flash-fiction publication dedicated to Sci-Fi stories under 1,000 words, so you can read at least one on your potty break.
- The Honest Perspective — Publishing articles on all aspects of daily life that can offer a new perspective born from personal experience and honest reflection. A place to be seen and heard as our true selves and empower & inspire others. THP offers weekly prompts.
- The Brain is a Noodle — A place for all things bite-sized! A collection of poetry and shortform pieces! 🧠🍜 We have daily poetry prompts, weekly shortform prompts and now introducing, monthly essay prompts!
- The Summit — Daily motivation, like a daily shower.
- The Storyteller’s Vault — A Home for Prompts, Poems, Short Stories, and Non-Fiction. Join the 2022 Writing Prompt Journey.
- Flint and Steel — Writing Prompts to Spark Your Creativity.
- ChannSpirations and Coincidences — Inspired to write after reading someone’s promptless post? Witness something that stuck with you and connect it to an idea you had since, or maybe before? You may be the unbeknownst recipient of a channeled inspiration. Agnostics welcome — non-believers are great messengers. What is “ChannSpirations and Coincidences?”
- Are You Out There — Are You Out There publishes more than Life, Poetry, Fiction and Short Stories. We publish writing on Outdoor Travel, Tips, Guides, Journals, Editorial Opinions and more. Not on the front page features area? Older writing gets automatically curated by tag into section archives.
- Lifeline — The place to share any kind of poems from love to life. A place to share all your emotions. Lifeline offers prompts frequently.
- QuickTalk — A tongue-in-cheek, casual playground for @Medium writers to vent, seek advice, collaborate, workshop writing styles, freeform write, and have a laugh or two. Quick Talk offers monthly prompts.
- Gentleness Ambassadors — Many of us, especially Empaths and sensitive souls, have a desire for a gentler world. This space is for you! Share and read stories about noticing and releasing Harshness. Let’s inspire one another on practicing Gentleness. GA offers monthly writing prompts.
- Move Me Poetry — A poetry community like no other. Home to Movers across the world who are dedicated to keeping the love of poetry alive.
- Write Under the Moon — What inspires your words to flow?
- Total Fiction — Total Fiction is an On-Line Publication that publishes Fiction writing. Total Fiction will publish all Genera and all lengths. From Micro Fiction to Book Length. If it is a good Fiction tale, there is a place here for it in Total Fiction. We will accept Sci-Fi to Westerns.
- Navegante — Writing prompts to navigate the depth waters of the inner self. ⚓Biweekly prompts: https://navegante.substack.com/
- Pure Fiction — This publication is a non-judgemental nurturing space for fiction writers of all levels and experience. We welcome writers of non-fiction interested in branching into fiction. We want this to be a safe space for creative growth and expression. Our main editor ( KL Simmons) is happy to help guide those writing fiction for the first time!
If you have a publication or know of a publication that you would like showcased in PW Newsletters, please leave a comment with the publication’s link. Our aim is to give writers of PW other places to submit their work besides PW so that they get as much exposure as possible.
NEW WRITERS
Please help me in welcoming these new writers to PW! Please make them feel welcomed by reading, clapping, and commenting on their stories.
Elisa Bazzi | Willow Dickerson | Rachel Irene Wilke | Tracey Smith | Heather Paz | Jess L |
STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN June 8th-14th
POETRY
FICTION
- Peter Ling — Language 💠 Picnic 💠 Camp 💠 Dragonfly 💠 Motor 💠 Knight 💠 Monetize
- Star Love Grey — Laila’s Dream
- Debra Taitel — All the Feels
- Amanda Gravely — The Chase 💠 The Mouse People
- Rose Malana — One in 15,300
- Joe Merkle — Coconut Copulation
- Tas (they/them) — Modes Of Transportation
- T.K. McDonald — He’s Just My Dad
PERSONAL ESSAYS | CREATIVE NONFICTION | ARTICLES
- Shanice Lawton — My Beta Readers Have My Book
- Willow Lovelight — The Essence of the Dragonfly
- Ellen Baker — The Music That Brings Back Innocent, Carefree Days
- Courtney Capone — The Two Of Us
- Willow Dickerson — Knight, K’night, or K’nigit?
- Star Love Grey — Everything Old Is New Again
- Joe Merkle — Would You Recognize God
- Heather Paz — Finishing Strong
💠NOTE: If you wrote a story using a PW Prompt during the week of June 1st-7th, 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! The best way to ensure I always see your off-PW posts using a PW prompt is to mention me (@ravynehawke)
Note to PW Prompt Writers (Christine Graves, Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, Rose Malana): If anyone used your prompts anywhere besides PW, can you please let me know on Slack. Thank you!
Well, that’s all for this newsletter. Thanks again everyone for contributing to PW during the second week of June. You’ve delighted us with some amazing stories. 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
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