Happy New Year! We hope yours is off to a great start so far, but if not, the Chinese New Year is still ahead, and perhaps that one will bring you more luck. Or at least more books!
We’re still working on this year’s schedule, but it will include a few new books coming out, and some fun things to go along with those releases. We’re also going to be developing discussion questions for many of the books we already have out, for those who might wish to use one of our books for a club or other group-reading experience. Look for the first of those to be coming with the first monthly newsletter on January 31st (you are a subscriber, right?).
As for our prompts, we’ll be posting monthly prompts (instead of weekly) starting today, and writers are encouraged to submit works inspired by our prompts for publication. Stories and poems for each month should be submitted by the last day of that month to brazensnake@brazensnakebooks.com. The following month, one poem and one story from the previous month will be chosen for publication here on the blog, and also in our monthly newsletter. Authors will receive a flat fee of $10 per poem or story we choose to publish. Items submitted must be original, unpublished works, however we only ask for non-exclusive rights to post the work here on our blog for one year, and in one monthly newsletter.
Stories are limited to 1000 words, and poems are limited to 500 words.
So without further ado, here are this month’s prompts. Happy writing!
Prose Prompt: At the end of a certain rainbow, there is a door, and beside it a black pot full of gold keys. The person guarding it is most definitely not a leprechaun…or is he/she?
Poetry Prompt: In like a lion, out like a lamb? In like a lamb, out like a lion? Write a poem about a lion, a lamb, and a magical kind of breeze.