Accepting Submissions: {Winning} 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.

This week is a special prompt, in partnership with our hilarious friends at National Pasquinade!

On the 2016 campaign trail, one man—a wretched disastrous pigman with bad hair and sycophantic family henchmen—warned us Americans:

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’”

Well, we’re not sick of winning. In fact, as we sit here aghast at the State of the Union—both televised and metaphysical—we’re taking matters into our own hands.

And that’s why this week, our writing prompt is #WINNING.

So, what comes to you when you think of winning? Titles and trophies. Olympics and Olympians. Politics, predators, and prey.

Awards season. Basketball season. Super Bowl season.

DJ Khaled. Al Davis. Charlie Sheen.

So many avenues to take this prompt, and every single one of them is… well, a winner.

So find your direction and send us your #winning submission of 400-700 words. Write us anything that comes to mind when you think of WINNING. 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 Sunday, February 4th at midnight EST.

We can’t wait to hear from you.