Our Weekly Creativity prompts challenge you to make a piece of writing (a poem, a journal entry, a story outline, a review) or art, or music, or a spoken word recording, or other piece of creative work. All the prompts we have written are brought together on this page – see below. The first prompt of the month is also a Flash Contest!
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Creativity Prompts
Write a poem that can be read both from top to bottom, and bottom to top ...
Write a story about yourself, or someone you know, as a superhero ...
Make a detailed drawing of a bicycle–from memory ...
Write a poem inspired by a Miró painting. (Hint: it can be as silly as you want it to be, and probably won’t make sense.) ...
Create a piece of flash fiction written from the perspective of the first object you saw when you woke up this morning. Your narrative should be no longer than 250 words. This is the first weekly prompt of September, so it is also the topic for our monthly flash contest: ...
Write a short story about someone discovering aliens ...
Create an abstract drawing or painting inspired by the prompts this week ...
Write about what it would be like to attend your rival school or play on your rival sports team. What would your thoughts be on the school you attend now? How is your view on your current school/sports team altered when looking through the eyes of another? ...
Write a story in a single word ...
Select a sentence from your favorite novel. Tear out a page of your notebook or use an empty whiteboard to break down this sentence and find a deeper meaning, or possibly theorize what the author is trying to tell you (otherwise known as the theme). Then, write a story where ...
