Standing Water: Wordsnstuff Writing Challenge [in collaboration with RUNT magazine]
Welcome to RUNT Magazine. We are an indie print publication celebrating visual art, literature, and the distinctions that make us human. Our aim as a magazine is to cultivate a vibrant community that promotes exploration and creativity instead of stifling it.
Weâve put together these prompts to hopefully inspire you to submit to our upcoming issue with the theme of STANDING WATER [click link for more info!]. If you feel inclined to express yourself in a different media, we accept all forms of writing (fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, etc.), photography, art, or anything that moves you! There is no submission fee and we encourage you to submit as much as you like.
The deadline is December 31st, 2024 and we canât wait to see what you come up with! Submit for free here!
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Write from the perspective of a favored toy of your childhood.
If future you met present you, what would you talk about? What would you think of each other?
Your hometown has mysteriously disappeared. As you stand looking where it once stood, what memories come to mind?
Youâre aging (spoiler alert). Write dual perspectives about one character who embraces that fact and one that rejects it.
You wake up in your childhood bedroom, magically a child yourself. You get to experience a Christmas as a kid again. Describe what youâve missed about this as an adult, even down to the smells.
Itâs been MANY years since youâve stopped aging. Youâve watched friends and family pass on, never letting yourself fall in love or get attached. You spot someone that you remember from your childhood, also unchanged. Who is it? Do you say anything to them?
Youâve just discovered you were switched at birth. What do you imagine the life you couldâve had was like?
Tell a true story about your childhood. The first one that comes to mind. Maybe even the one you donât think is even worth writing about at all.
Youâve spent decades running from the small town that labeled you a weird kid, but when you find an old yearbook and see your old self staring back at you, you realize youâve made a nightmare of the only person who understands you. Make amends with the younger version of yourself, you were just a child.
Every morning, you sit at the same desk, doing the same work, feeling your potential slowly wither away, but you convince yourself itâs fine. What would happen if you stopped telling yourself that this is all there is?
Write the day in the life of an inanimate object that feels it is not being used to its full potential.
Write your first break up from the other personâs perspective.
Your spouse is a writer and has been incredibly secretive about their current book. Itâs been published and as theyâve finally allowed you to read it, youâre slowly realizing this all sounds far too familiar.
You awake with your eyes closed, but you donât remember falling asleep. âIt wasnât your fault,â you hear a voice say. What do you see when you open your eyes?
A once famous person reflects on their career as they slowly being to feel they are being forgotten by the public.
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