Accepting Submissions: {MOTEL} Writing Prompt

Each week, we issue a writing prompt to our own staff, guest contributors, and readers like you. We welcome guest submissions, so if you’re interested in being featured or regularly contributing to the site, email your responses to kelaine.conochan [at] thepromptmag.com.

You pull off the road and into the parking lot of a motel. On the surface, things seem okay. The marquee highlights air conditioning, premium cable, and even the pool looks clean-ish.

But unless you see Johnny Rose at the front desk there’s still something creepy about this place.

It’s a little dingy. And with the doors facing the parking lot, there’s no telling who might be skulking around the balcony. Boy, is that a great setting for your next writing piece.

This Week’s Writing Prompt: MOTEL

This week, we’re looking for new original pieces, using MOTEL as our prompt.

If you’ve got an inspired ideas about how to respond to this week’s prompt, send us your submission of 400-700 words. Write us anything that comes to mind when you think of MOTEL. It can be a personal essay, a poem, short story, script, or anything else original and fresh. Ironic or sincere, real or imagined—just make it worth our while and we’ll publish it, include it in our newsletter, and give you the chance to join the creative, talented staff writers here at The Prompt.

Email your responses to kelaine.conochan@thepromptmag.com by Sunday July 18th at midnight EST.