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The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
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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Oct 2, 2022
My Strong Fingers
By Audrey Geliga — My strong fingers have held my children when they needed me the most and in times when I just wanted a hug and to feel
Sep 26, 2022
That is My Name
By Nika Mavrody — To waste a call is to be alone, and there's only one way to say, yes that is my name, and you will not call it forth.
Sep 21, 2022
Group Photo.
By Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi — On days when grief was so hard to scrub off time's face, I crawled into the mug shot where happiness tore the
Sep 17, 2022
Spatterdock
By Sharon O. Blumberg — Enchanted yellow lilies with sun-bright centers attached to long stems rested on the surface of the pond, as if
Sep 14, 2022
LOFT BED
By Noelle Sterne — In the two-room, graduate-school apartment, one-eighth of a brownstone whose only virtue was eleven-foot ceilings, my new
Sep 10, 2022
I do not live in a City
By Dennis Williams — I don’t know traffic jams. Vehicles traverse my streets intermittently, miles apart, never a risk to children playing
Sep 6, 2022
At FORLORN DAYS
By Angela Ezekiel — It was Sunday when the earth swallowed Maggi, our
sweetmeloned woman. Soul, brightest in the glorious morning sun, a
Sep 3, 2022
A Dawn with You
By Shalini Yadav — A striking crack of dawn at the parapet, removing the murk within one more day, neat and beautiful,
brightening further
Aug 30, 2022
PLATTERS OF DECEITS
By Abdulmueed Balogun — My body gets fatigued easily, and even more
my soul. but to whose ears do I narrate my haunting woes? Everyone is
Aug 27, 2022
Most Needed Jewellery
By Sushant Thapa — The day speaks of the delight. Garden of love welcomes another blooming flower. A bee hovers for nectar. That sweetness
Aug 24, 2022
MMIW
By Casey Yasuda — Meet me in November, when everything is red, to the only time when my sisters’ names
aren’t unsaid. MMIW. But only in
Aug 20, 2022
Oh! My Dear Face
By Ananta Kumar Singh — Never be upset. I didn't come to pimples. I didn't come to dimples. Oh! My dear face. Never be upset. I didn't
Aug 16, 2022
“We The People”
By Abigail Flores — Rooted with time, and veins that sway the sky, I pray to go back. But every school makes me
Bleed white. And here, they
Aug 13, 2022
Blurday
By Duane Anderson — Welcome to a special event the birth of the new word of the year. Welcome to Blurday, to a new lifestyle, where one day
Aug 10, 2022
Dandelion
By Lisa Lucca — Despite the small voice inside my head I grew used to hearing since I was an outspoken child, the voice from my family that
Aug 2, 2022
If...
By Tamara MC — If he hadn’t stolen my hard drive and then blackmailed me,
we would still be together. If he hadn’t lied about it,
Jul 30, 2022
AT THE GRAVESIDE (for Sister Lizzy)
By Ojo Olumide Emmanuel — At your graveside, a woman began a song. She is not from your tribe. You died in the land of another tribe.
Jul 27, 2022
Birthday Foodscapes and Me
By Aparajita De — “Begin with the bitter first. Then go to the fritters and the fries. Finally, exit through the rice pudding,”
Jul 24, 2022
The Story I Write
By Chandra Persaud — I am the daughter of women, displaced, raped, chased, shaped by a history that cannot be undone. For history leaves a
Jul 15, 2022
Looks Can Be Deceiving
By Paul Rousseau — He is standing by a rural post mailbox, hair disheveled, beard scruffy, tattered overalls more dirt than cloth. I stop to
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