Last-Chance Writing Prompt #1

This is it! The last writing prompt you’re getting before the contest ends! Use it or lose it, writers! Enjoy! Summer’s drawing to a close,…

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Last-Chance Writing Prompt #2

On this day in history, George Harrison was found guilty of plagiarizing “My Sweet Lord.” Pablo Picasso is widely credited with having said, “good artists…

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Last-Chance Writing Prompt #3

On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart completed her transcontinental flight. While Mrs. Earheart accomplished a great deal in her life, her unsolved disappearance has…

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Last-Chance Writing Prompt #4

Our brains are hardwired to remember melodies, which is why you couldn’t shake “Shake It Off” last fall while forgetting to pay all of your…

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Last-Chance Writing Prompt #5

On this day in 1884, the first photograph of a tornado was made in South Dakota. PROMPT: Consider how technology–whether existing or being drafted in…

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Only Seven Days Left to Enter!

There is only one week left to submit to the 2015 NANO Prize. You have been preparing for this your entire life, and we know you’re…

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When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds

When Mystical Creatures Attack! Kathleen Founds University of Iowa Press, 2014 206 pages ISBN 978-1609382834, $12.97 In this genre-blending novel-in-stories, Kathleen Founds experiments with different…

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State of Flash for our Queer Issue

We’re looking to continue our State of Flash series with short essays talking about flash fiction in and out of the classroom, and do so…

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Lost Luster

Your mom asks you to latch eye and hook around her neck. A string of little white moons rests against her breasts. Luna. Eclipse. Breathe—“you…

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PROMPT #70

Three years ago this week, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars. Curiosity’s goals included investigating Martian geology and searching for forms of…

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