PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #5

For Nov 1st —7th

Ravyne Hawke

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10 min readNov 8, 2021

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Greetings PW Writers and Readers. The pub is open! Come on in for a drink and snacks. This is a bit of a long newsletter, so get yourselves settled in.

I want to thank all of you for your contributions, read time, and responses. 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. Remember, your interactions here continue to make PW a success!

A big THANK YOU to my Editors, Alyse Rowe and Katrina D. for all your hard work this week.

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

❗❗❗EXCITING NEWS❗❗❗

Did you know that PW has THREE Features? Well, we do! Check out the HOUSEKEEPING section below to find out how you can get a Featured spot on PW.

Marc Barham continues to delight us with his paranormal horror series The Noise. You can catch up on all parts of it by following this link to the first part of the series. Each part is linked at the bottom of the page so you can move freely from one section to the next. Please stop by and support Marc!
We are also featuring the November Gratitude Journals. If you’d like to be a part of this feature, just journal about what you are grateful for during the month of November, and be sure to note somewhere in your essay or poem that this is part of the Grateful Heart prompt or Gratitude Journal. Please use the #essay or #poem tags for your piece. You can find all of the gratitude journals on the PW publication page after the Fiction section.
Our very own Fifi Leigh is writing reviews! She has been reviewing a channeler’s Youtube channel and just dropped a review for a ballet. You can find her reviews after the Personal Essays section on the PW publication page. Please go and support her work.

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 and I have begun my serial Revenge of the Ravens. Come check them out and get in on them at the beginning!

⚫⚫A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING⚫⚫

Unfortunately, I will need to repeat this so long as we have new-to-Medium writers joining us here at Promptly Written, which I do encourage, by the way! For those who’ve been writers for a while and have published in other publications before, you may skip this part.

New-To-Medium and PW Writers

You must adhere to Medium’s Terms of Service and Medium Rules. Read them. Memorize them. Do not violate them.
I’ve put up a better explanation on how to submit stories to a publication. You can view it here — Submitting Drafts and Citing Images
Please review the articles at Medium Help for the following:

4. Please polish your stories. Check for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Make sure your images are cited. Make sure you are using the appropriate tags :

#poetry for poetry
#fiction for fiction
#articles for articles and opinions/rants
#essay for personal essays, shortform, or creative non-fiction

5. To All Bi/Multilingual Writers — Yes you can write in your native language if you also translate it into English within the same story.

6. Please only submit DRAFTS to PW. Do not publish on your page and then submit to PW. Submit to PW and I will publish the piece on my end. I’ve let this slide until now but moving forward, I will only publish your work if it is in DRAFT form.

7. How can you get a Featured section on PW? It’s quite simple. If you have a fiction series, fiction based on a single theme, poetry series, poetry based on a single theme, write reviews or articles on a single theme, you too can get a featured section on PW. Just email me with your idea and we will set you up with your own section. My email address is at the top of this newsletter.

🟤🟤STAT NEWS FOR NOV 1st-7th AT PW🟤🟤

16 new writers (164 total writers)

105 stories published

🟣🟣PUB NEWS🟣🟣

You can find all of the current prompts under PROMPTILICIOUSNESS. Feel free to browse the prompts past and present. You do not have to just use a prompt from the current day. Browse them all and find the ones that interest you.

When tagging your stories, please do NOT use the #PWprompt tag. That is for me to use for the daily, weekly, and monthly prompts. You may use #prompt or #writingprompts

If you are publishing your piece anywhere besides PW, please remember to tag me (@ + Ravyne Hawke) in the BODY of your story so I can find your work. Do not tag me under the tag section for a publication. I will likely NOT find you that way.

If you are writing from one of the prompts, please leave a link to the prompt in the BODY of your story. Preferably at the end. Check out other writers’ formatting if you aren’t sure.

💥STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN NOV1st-7th At PW💥

POETRY

Hope For Everything by Hamsalekha
Hope, A Vulture by srstowers
Are You My Hope? by Shagufta
Through Hope Comes Life by Teresa Grabs
Before And After by Joe Merkle
A Petty Poem by Casey Lawrence
Hope by Kira Dawn
Growing Hope by Tas (they/them)
My Beloved by Ravyne Hawke
Hope! The Only Reason To Live by Ghina Zaidi
Outside Of Time, We Exist by srstowers
Judgements Made by Kira Dawn
The Vultures Have Gathered by David Acaster
We are Vast in Heart-Centered Canvas of Life by Joseph Lieungh
Puddles by Krystal Mossbarger
Life’s Dance by jules
Life’s Journey by Sujona Chatterjee
Life’s Little Mysteries by srstowers
Life’s Lessons (a poem) by Casey Lawrence
Life’s Purpose by Teresa Grabs
Life’s Photo by Adriana Vazquez
My Life Is Not Dark by Shagufta
Life’s Sweetness by KiKi Walter
Thanksgiving by Sharing Words
November New Moon by Fifi Leigh
The Desert by Suma Narayan
Hope by Barbara Mac
Burning The Ladder by Casey Lawrence
My Oasis by Krystal Mossbarger
Too Blind To See by Joe Merkle
Bygones by Cassandra Armstrong
The Unwise Man Desires by Teresa Grabs
Life’s My Stage by Fifi Leigh
An Ode To Your Husband by KiKi Walter
Life Sentence by Krystal Mossbarger
The Malignant Tree by Neera Handa Dr
All That Glitters by L Burton
A Contented Life by David Acaster
Day Late by Kira Dawn
Grateful Heart by Sharing Words
Finding Neverland by Giulietta Passarelli

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 Nov 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! I don’t always receive all of my notifications.

Thanks again everyone for contributing to PW this past week. I look forward to more of your stories in the upcoming weeks.

Ravyne Hawke, Editor

PW WRITERS

NEW WRITERS FOR WEEK OF NOV 1st-7th

PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #5

For Nov 1st —7th

Written by Ravyne Hawke