Prompt for November 2024

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 21.11.24.

TASK: ‘Witch-hunt’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘Witch-hunt’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 21st November 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 24.11.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Please send your homework to Pat.

June 2024 Task

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 20.06.24.

TASK: ‘Retribution’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘retribution’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 20th June 2024. Use the contact form or email Pat O’Connor directly.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 23.06.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Prompt for May 2024

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 23.05.24.

TASK: ‘Escape’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘escape’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 23rd May 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 26.05.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Members: send all homework to Pat

Joiners: contact us through the Facebook Group

April Writing Prompt

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 25.04.24.

TASK: ‘Ruin’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘ruin’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 25th April 2024.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 28.04.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Contact us via the contact page for submissions.

WELL MET AT MIDNIGHT

The interesting thing about crossroads, well to me anyway, is that they take many forms. The physical, the metaphorical, the emotional. Sometimes you don’t even realise you’re at one until it is too late.

The defining characteristic of all of them though is choice, the temptation to stray from your originally chosen path to explore pastures new.

We found our own personal crossroads in a previously unexplored area of the galaxy called The Midnight Quadrant, no charts to guide us, seeking our fortune. The sensor probes we’d sent out had returned nothing but dust for weeks, and we were just about to leave when the onboard AI threw a visual up on the holographic screen and proudly announced that there was an anomaly worth investigating. His enthusiasm was somewhat wearing and, not for the first time, I wished he’d chosen a female-presenting form and voice. I hated the 1930’s suit, hat, and guitar.

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Prompt for February 2024

Prompt for deadline Thursday midnight, 22.02.24.

TASK: ‘Crossroads’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘crossroads’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 22nd February 2024.

Contact us via the Contact Page if you want to submit a story.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 25.02.24, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

Writing Task for September

music in swansea

HOMEWORK for deadline Thursday midnight, 21.09.23.

TASK: ‘Music’. Write 500 words or fewer about ‘music’. Your story title isn’t included in the 500 words.

Homework to be in by midnight, Thursday 21st September 2023.

Meeting at 1.30pm, Sunday 24.09.23, Discovery Room, 1st floor, Central library. Finish at 3.30pm.

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