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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 May 2021. Let’s author a multi-lingual, multi-voiced, and multi-generational story of our community that will endure.
This week’s prompts are from U-Meleni Mhlaba Adebo, a Dorchester-based poet, storyteller, and performer, as well as a member of Write on the DOT’s advisory board. Prompt 1: Write a poem or about a time when you felt safe, calm. Where is your sanctuary? Is it a person, a place, or a thing? What makesContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 8”
This week’s prompts are from Kurt Klopmeier, an alum of the UMass Boston MFA program in Creative Writing. “And Then the ______Walked Into the Room” Imagine or recall the details of an ordinary day. Put a mythological creature, supernatural being, or famous monster into the mix. Would they be familiar to you like family orContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 7”
This week’s prompt comes from Write on the DOT Program Advisor and Dorchester writer, Aaron Devine. Aaron writes: For the past 6 years, my wife and I have lived on the first floor of a 3 Decker home near the intersection of Dot Ave and Columbia Road. A few years back, I came up withContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 6”
This week features three prompts to jumpstart a short story from Andréa Rivard, a 2nd year fiction writer in the Creative Writing MFA program at Umass Boston. 1. “Our first last kiss was better.” Write a story where this line of dialogue is said by one of the characters. 2. Grab the book closest toContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompts: Week 5”
Coronavirus Map Draw & Write Prompt This week’s prompt was submitted by Lynn Drew, graduate of the UMass Boston MFA Program in Creative Writing, former Coordinator and current Advisory Board member of Write on the DOT. Maps invite us to locate ourselves in relation to whatever they show, to enter the labyrinth that is eachContinue reading “DotWrite21 Prompt: Week 4”
Chaos is the color red. It is the puddle of hot blood you’re pushed into; it’s sticky. You can smell smoke, and when you open your eyes there are flames engulfing your brain. Chaos is the devil your grandmother warned you about. “He’s handsome,” Abuela says. Chaos doesn’t care about what your Abuela says andContinue reading ““Chaos” by Kaitlyn Mendez-Juliao”
