DotWrite21

Write on the DOT invites our community to use creative writing as a tool for recording, translating, and surviving these extraordinary times.

Write with us as we share weekly prompts and inspiration. Submit your work to publish on our blog or share your own prompts at dotreadingseries@gmail.com and we may feature them here or on our social media.

Together, we will write through and emerge at the publication of our 6th book of local writing in May 2021. Let’s author a multi-lingual, multi-voiced, and multi-generational story of our community that will endure.

DotWrite21

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 15

This week’s prompt comes from Cherish Collins, a 1st year writer in the UMass Boston MFA program. Cherish writes: Writing uses the five senses to describe scenes, actions, etc. So much information can be relayed to a reader based on what a character sees, touches, tastes, hears, or smells. But could you still achieve theContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 15”

by dotreadingseries February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 14

This week’s prompt comes from Bina Ruchi Perino, a Dorchester resident and MFA candidate at Emerson College. Bina writes: Valentine’s Day was on Sunday, and we typically understand this holiday as a celebration of romantic love and affection. But affection isn’t just exclusive to romance. In this time, it can also be important to rememberContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 14”

by dotreadingseries February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 13

This week’s prompt comes from Bart Thompson, founder/producer of the Dorchester-based live storytelling series Now Listen Here who lives in Fields Corner. Bart writes: Now Listen Here is a Dorchester-based live storytelling series, created to provide a place to gather and share true stories about our own personal experiences. Everybody has a story to share, what’sContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 13”

by dotreadingseries February 11, 2021February 6, 2021

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 12

This week’s prompt comes from Crystal Koe, alum of the UMass Boston MFA program in Creative Writing for Poetry. Crystal writes: Having lost count of the number of times I’ve spiraled into anxiety recently, here’s a prompt that combines a therapy grounding technique with exploring the senses. 1) Wherever you are, write down FIVEContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 12”

by dotreadingseries February 4, 2021

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 11

This week’s prompt comes from Kirk Carapezza, an area dad who lives in Dorchester and writes higher education stories for GBH and NPR. Kirk writes: During the pandemic, I’ve been taking a picture a day of the sun rising over Savin Hill and Dorchester Bay. Here’s the prompt: Take a picture of the sun risingContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 11”

by dotreadingseries January 28, 2021January 26, 2021

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 10

This week’s prompt comes from Anna Ross, Dorchester poet and Advisory Board volunteer with Write on the DOT. Anna writes: Choose a line from either a favorite song or a hated earworm and turn it into a Golden Shovel poem (each word of your chosen line is the final word in each successive line ofContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 10”

by dotreadingseries December 17, 2020

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DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 15

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DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 11

DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 10

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