If you can make it here...
New York wants your soul! Or rather, The New Yorker wants your fiction (and your poetry, and your letters to the editor, and also your...
Landlubber Loves Mermaid
Prompt: Here’s a poem prompt. I’d love to read some of y’all’s art 💋 Write a 5 line poem about a mermaid who is in love with a human....
Emilish Dickinsonesque
Prompt: I never knew Emily Dickinson personally. *** I never knew Emily Dickinson personally. Though Dismay - her Vice - Eternally - Doth...
Good, Better, Best!
One of those will do! Sapiens Plurum collectively and wisely has announced their annual short fiction writing contest “Inventing...
Shift the night.
Night Shift Radio, a modern media company cultivating "original content across a variety of digital mediums," is requesting the pleasure...


Downpour of animals writing prompt...
Have you ever read about -- or experienced -- toads, frogs, fish, birds, bats, locusts, lizards, ants, spiders, or sharks raining from...
How novel!
The Novel Prize "rewards novels which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style."...


The most influential work of fiction ever is cancelled.
Now I'm not ever a fan of cancelling anything, especially works of fiction, but President Empress Gail makes several transformative...
Just a quickie!
Zap your flash (up to 1,500 words) fiction of sci-fi or (not both) fantasy to Lightspeed Magazine by May 1, 2022! Namely, "...science...


Fiction-Writer's Imagination!
The Empress President is back, this time with a short story that would fall under the contemporary fiction genre if it weren't...