New Community Writes Prompt: Gratitude
What are you thankful for? Write about it! From now through December, Community Writes, an online publication of the Hoffman Center for the Arts, is accepting contributions on the topic
Falcon Cove–Georgianna Marie
Memoir: We had planned to go to Europe that summer. Then a pandemic happened. Unable to fly overseas, my husband and I strategized: How would we escape the stifling Arizona
The Stranger–Georgianna Marie
Essay: One summer vacation, a stranger appeared at my family’s front door. It was 1960, the year before I was born, so I wasn’t there to see the puzzled look
Recipe for Camping–Karen LaGrave Small
Recipe for Camping: Fiction Have fun camping! Living off grid, no cell service, no heat, no fluffy bed, no teddybear. What to take? Not much. Leave your house. Bring your
Call for Poetry Submissions: Seasons in the Garden
Attention all you Poet-Gardeners or Gardener-Poets! Submit your work on the theme of “Seasons in the Garden” for display in the Wonder Garden’s all-weather, all-seasons poetry post. We seek poems
Dream Vacation–Stevie Stephens Burden
Prose Poem: Tourists, jammed into their cars, RVs and our streets, wander, looking for the perfect experiences to capture the construction of unforgettable moments. Spending hard earned time and money
The Nutty Vacation–Ellis Conklin
Fiction: On the night before we set off for the Russian River, my sister had a nervous breakdown. She was young then, a thin, nice-looking girl of seventeen, and had
Community Writes Prompt-Vacation
Who doesn’t have a story about vacation? The best of em… the worst of em… the exhilaration… the mishaps. Tell us your tale. Or conjure one up. From now through
Poetry Walk Fundraiser News
THANK YOU COMMUNITY! WE DID IT. Your response to our appeal has been amazing and exciting. Thank you! As of August 14, $83,622 in pledges and donations have been received.
New Prompts for Community Writes
We’re relishing the extra hours of daylight. The tulips and daffodils are in bloom. Everywhere, it seems, there is an abundance of green. So, let’s write about this season of