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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 early June of 2021. Let’s author a multi-lingual, multi-voiced, and multi-generational story of our community that will endure.
Our final #DotWrite21 prompt comes from Danny Elfanbaum, alum of the UMass Boston MFA program for Fiction and a former coordinator of Write on the DOT. Danny writes: Pods, Containers, and Boxes There’s that old workshop saying that “a story [or poem] is a container,” and a few of the writers and artists who’ve workedContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 21”
This week’s #DotWrite21 prompt comes from poet Toni Bee who grew up in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner neighborhood on Jones Hill. Toni is currently coordinating this month’s Cambridge Poetry MashUp, a National Poetry Month celebration that will “celebrate the poetic and cultural diversity of poets who live in Cambridge, MA & its neighboring cities.” Write onContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 20”
This week’s prompt is from Tessa Weber who is finishing the UMass Boston MFA program in Creative Writing this year. Tessa writes: One of the toughest things for a writer is never having enough time to settle into those marathon sessions of writing we all wish for. Everyday life doesn’t always adhere to our needs as writers.Continue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 19”
This week’s prompt comes from Logan Buckley, a 1st year writer in the UMass Boston MFA program for Creative Writing. Logan writes: Many are living sheltered lives as a result of quarantining from Covid-19. The more people who get vaccinated, the better chance we all have to return to some semblance of “normal” life. ThisContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 18”
This week’s prompt comes from the Dorchester Poetree: Start in your roots. What holds you– / through seasons and storms? / Then write skyward, / reaching into new space / and language / until you unclasp / something unexpected / and green. As always, Write on the DOT invites anyone who participates in the #DotWrite21Continue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 17”
This week’s prompt is from Shilpi Suneja, alum of the UMass Boston MFA program in Creative Writing for Fiction. Shilpi has titled her prompt: The one you didn’t know you lost Shilpi writes: By the end of May 2020, the US lost 100,000 people to coronavirus. The New York Times visualized this massive loss withContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 16”
