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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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Mirrors
By Pooja Sinha — When I look in the mirror, I see that young girl, acting in her favorite green dress in a theater production in School. She
Nov 7, 2021
Come with me
By Raluca Buttner — Come step out onto the clouds with me. Why be so afraid to leave the world behind, with its roofs and screened windows?
Sep 27, 2021
I Don't Have To Be Amanda Gorman
By Noelle Sterne — A series of (female) nemeses, killer weeds, plagues from college on, each marking my insecurity, guilt, deficiency,
Jul 14, 2021
My White Privilege
By Robert Knox — My white privilege gets me around town, protects me in my careless teens. Imprinted clearly in the photo on my driver’s
Jun 30, 2021
White Flowers
By Leonore Wilson — In the foothills of May, these wild ones, long lost lovers, racemes of floral buds, water-tight, grass like and a few
May 28, 2021
Color Blind!
By Jyoti Nair — Especially on Holi, make me color-blind. Liberate me from color-cacophony and clangor. They have been bludgeoning my
May 1, 2021
Movie Screen
By Sarah Bellum Mental — The kids ask me why is it, we always die first in the movies? I get to stay until the end
of the movie. The end
Feb 25, 2021
The Bridge
By Maria Adeola Sheey-Adekale — You probably think that ‘white privilege’ doesn’t belong to me. How could it when my skin is brown? But I
Jan 10, 2021
The Best Tool in my Recovery from COVID-19: Privilege
By Heidi Schauster — I’m a previously robustly healthy 48-year-old, and at Day 52 of COVID-19, I am still recovering from a virus that has
Nov 18, 2020
Solidarity
By Corey Bush — My white privilege is the heritage of Irish immigrants and Anglo colonizers. It is the very land upon which I walk.
Sep 10, 2020
Walking Our Way
By Teresa McLamb Blackmon — She slipped in the door and did her job quietly. If she felt she didn’t belong there, she was wrong.
Aug 29, 2020
Our Words Matter
By Jennifer A. Minotti, Editor-in-Chief — Please do not get caught up in the rhetoric or media sensationalism that continues to divide us.
Aug 26, 2020
Deep South
Theresa C. Gaynord — In our world of foldout maps,
we spread out our gypsy fingers letting them roam free all over the globe.
Jul 31, 2020
Refuge of My Skin
By Kate LaDew — She has seen me, through and through, another woman living barely 12 feet from her,
Jul 29, 2020
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