Here are creative writing prompts for every day of November. These fun, imaginative topics will keep you writing all month long.
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Winners for the 2023 Souls of Darkness 50 Word Halloween Story Contest
All of these stories will be published in our digital print issue. Christa Planko has won a promotional package from our site. We want to say thank you to all the writers who submitted their work. This year had fewer entries, but many were very high quality.
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Continue the Poem
This is our continue the poem page. Just like continue the story, we collectively write a poem together in the comments.
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Each person takes turns writing a haiku that responds to the previous one. The goal is to create a themed chain of haikus.