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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.


Feeling on edge? Feeling like maybe the whole thing’s gonna blow? We’re glad we found you.

Because this week’s writing prompt is SELF-DESTRUCT.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write something.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to push yourself into uncomfortable territory.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get a little destructive.

This Week’s Writing Prompt: SELF-DESTRUCT

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 SELF-DESTRUCT. It can be a personal essay, a poem, short story, script, or anything else original and fresh. 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 Friday, May 15th at midnight EDT.

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