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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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Jul 2, 2021
Five Vanilla Cones
By Linda LeMoine — My mind flashes a memory of a mini me. I’m about five years old and we are on our weekly drive to visit cousins. Dressed
Jun 30, 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 26, 2021
The Problem with Chivalry
By Alan Cohen — There are more scars on my heart inflicted by women than there are days in the year. It is better not to love them.
Jun 23, 2021
Embark
By Rose Loving — There was so much nourishment growing in that valley. The wild leeks we ate every day with eggs at dawn. The coltsfoot we
Jun 18, 2021
I Ardently Feel
By Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana — A spiritual thirst, an unending quest lurks in the heart at the forefront. Neither can I resist, nor can I
Jun 15, 2021
Dawns 21 Haiku
By Jake Cosmos Aller — 2021 Dawns. Politics are still uncertain. Thousands still are dying. The madness never ends it seems. Consuming us
Jun 14, 2021
I Am From
By Debra Dolan — I'm from the lonely and misunderstood. From the "I don't believe you" and "I hope you have a daughter just like you" to
Jun 11, 2021
Living the Good Life
By Leah Bleiberg — To this day, I'm not sure what possessed me to answer the dentist the way I did. I think it was the feisty part of me
Jun 9, 2021
Covid in a Bell Jar
By Teresa van Luyk — I met my cottage neighbor, Joe, on the beach a month or so ago, before this latest stay-at-home order, and we caught up
Jun 6, 2021
After the Interview
By John D Robinson — After reading the interview she said to me, "You sound
so bitter, mean about people." "I am," I said.
Jun 4, 2021
My Exhaustion
By Christi Jeane — "Exhaustion is killing my creativity." This thought crept into my head about six weeks ago, and it won’t leave me alone.
Jun 2, 2021
Phantom Writer
By Nicole Menzzasalma — She seems stressed of all things, fragile and shrewd. She says she loves me. She’s the only one that makes me sing.
Jun 1, 2021
Pandemic Protocol
By Nancy Smiler Levinson — One of my reserved books is ready at curbside pickup. I phone for a date. Press one.
Name check. ID card check
May 31, 2021
The Nectar Song
By Yuan Hongri & Translated by Manu Mangattu — A sieve of my soul I weave with lightning of time. And cast it into the interstellar sea of
May 29, 2021
Five Haiku
By Sergio Inestrosa — The cool breeze.
The butterfly flies over the petals. Thrown tree in the middle of the way. Croak of toads. Raindrops
May 28, 2021
How Expressive Writing Is helping Me Feel, Deal and Heal
By Grace Calder — In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, the Harlem State Office Building in New York City is where I found a sense of closure
May 27, 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 25, 2021
Common Sense
By Steve Bailey — As one who has stayed home and ventured out for only food and medical needs for the last year and on those occasions wore
May 24, 2021
Paper Birds
By Theresa Gaynord — What if George Floyd’s memories hadn’t faded? What if kindness shut out the clouds? What if
sunshine fell upon the lid
May 22, 2021
What Does the World Want from Me?
By Nicola Ranson — The emails want answering. The bills want paying. The garden wants watering. The calls want returning. The gifts want
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