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Gone Fishing: Poetry Prompt and Playlist

By Heather Eure 23 Comments

Gone Fishing

We’ve got a roundup of the [mostly] happy songs in our new Playlist. Catch a listen, put up the “Gone Fishing” sign and cast a line or two of poetry with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Fishing Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Water Poems, writing prompts

Spanish Lace: Playlist & Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 50 Comments

Spanish Lace Poetry Prompt

If you look closely, the intricate pattern of Spanish Lace has a story to tell. We’ve woven together a new playlist of songs—from Spanish lace to lace in general, from the group Paper Lace to some great Spanish love songs. An intoxicating variety of tunes, and a poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Dream Poems, Music, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Spanish Lace, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Doors & Passageways: Playlist & Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 33 Comments

Red Door Poems Red Door Poetry

Listen to our new Doors & Passageways playlist, then write a doors or passageways poem, including a line of the lyrics if you like.

Filed Under: Blog, Doors Poems, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, Train poems, writing prompts

Fiction Jumpstart Workshop Fall 2013

By Anthony Connolly 4 Comments

Dream of writing the breakout novel? You need to start somewhere. Begin today, with our Fiction Workshop taught by bestselling author Anthony Connolly.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Workshops, writer's group resources

Ten Great Writing Playlists & Poetry Prompts

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

top ten poetry playlists

Do you have a favorite playlist you listen to while you write poetry? We’re featuring ten of our favorite themed writing playlists.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry

This Writing Life: Summer is Fiction

By Anthony Connolly 16 Comments

Fiction Beautiful Beach

Summer means fiction. What are you doing with yours?

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life

Fiction Friday (on Wednesday): Star Trek Encounter

By Anonymous 5 Comments

Star Trek Fiction

Writing short fiction is a marvelous playground for the poet to develop the essential ingredients of great poems. Try your hand at our “encounter” prompt today.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, poetry teaching resources, Star Trek Fiction, Student Writing, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Night at the Classroom (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 7 Comments

Making Grendel from paper mâché? Perhaps you’d rather just write a creature poem. Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt from literature’s greatest creatures.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Fiction Jumpstart Workshop 2013

Creative Writing Workshops

Dream of writing the breakout novel? You need to start somewhere. The Fiction Jumpstart workshop will help you: 1. establish a strong writing practice and explore the principles of fiction 2. teach you the power of details 3. help you develop rich characters 4. get you exploring the tricks of plot 5. hone your approach […]

Flash Fiction Friday: Digitalis

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

flash fiction foxglove

Tania Runyan plays in the world of flash fiction with a new piece, exploring the dangers of following one’s imagination.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, writer's group resources

How Do You Take It? (A Coffee Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 21 Comments

coffee poetry prompt

Cream is only good when it’s fronted by Eric Clapton, and the highest form of coffee sacrilege is its dilution with dairy. That’s one man’s opinion. What about you? How you take it? Seth Haines has another poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

January Poetry Prompt: Coffee or Tea? Hallelujah, Rosie Lea!

By Seth Haines 44 Comments

coffee and tea poetry prompt

Welcome to a new year here at Tweetspeak Poetry. With this new year comes a new series of Monday poetry prompts to help you get your week started right! If you’ve been with us for a while, you know the drill–I’ll provide a writing prompt touching on Tweetspeak’s monthly theme, and you’ll compose a poem to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, Music, poetry, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Flash Fiction Friday: Space Mountain

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

fiction space mountain

It’s Flash Fiction Friday! Tania Runyan tells the tale of a young couple, the gift of a gold herringbone bracelet, and a fateful ride on Space Mountain.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction

Flash Fiction Friday: The Music Box

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Tania Runyan’s latest offering for Flash Fiction Friday, in honor of every awkward teenager and music box that did her in.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction

Flash Fiction Friday: The Revival

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

flash fiction marlin

A marlin, a pizza parlor, and a young girl. That’s all Tania Runyan needed for her latest flash fiction piece.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, poetry, Short Story

November Surrealism Poetry Prompt–A Musical Playlist

By Seth Haines 21 Comments

This month’s theme at Tweetspeak is surrealism, and we’re composing poems that play with the theme. Seth Haines has a brand new surrealism-themed musical playlist to help us create some surrealist poetry by playing with juxtapositions and free associations.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry, Surrealism, Themed Writing Projects

Flash Fiction Friday: The Coffee Shop

By Tania Runyan 8 Comments

flash fiction coffee bean

Poet and Every Day Poems editor Tania Runyan continues her Friday forays into the world of flash fiction with this provocative scene from a coffee shop.

Filed Under: Blog, Everyday Tweets, Fiction

October Spirits—Bergström’s Place (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

I am happy for my friend and toast, “here’s to fine people who are bringing in the harvest. Here’s to the good earth. Here’s to Rusty!” We raise our glasses and drink heartily, just the way Rusty would were he among us.

Seth Haines uncorks a new Monday wine and beer poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Fiction Friday: The Bra

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

As I continue my journey through The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, I continue to be amazed by how a simple writing prompt can suddenly open a new world of characters, events and emotions. After just a few minutes of writing, I get to meet people I never knew existed and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Short Story

Reading Generously: ‘Mildred’s Garden’—A Begin Again Story

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

white anemone

Begin Again with a love story—”Mildred’s Garden” by Laura Boggess. Even if you don’t like romance, it’s easy to read this book generously.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Bed & Breakfast, Mildred's Garden, Music, Music Poems, Reading Generously, Refugees

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