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London Writers' Salon, Lindsey Trout Hughes, Mason Currey, Hanna Thomas Uose, Matt TrinettiA global writing contest and magazine from the team behind London Writers’ Salon. New contests each month, new prompts each Sunday. Subscribe to write with us!
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📝 Weekly Prompt: Verb-Driven Metaphors
A new writing prompt inviting you to use metaphors to bring a scene to life.
Use this prompt as an entry point into our May contest theme: Verb Your Enthusiasm.
📝 Weekly Prompt: Verbing: Make a Noun a Verb
A new writing prompt inviting you to turn a noun into a not-noun.
Use this prompt as an entry point into our May contest theme: Verb Your Enthusiasm.
📝 Weekly Prompt: Replace The Expected Verb
A new prompt exploring unexpected word choice. Plus! Live writing session with guest judge Sarah L. Kaufman this week.
Use this prompt as an entry point into our May contest theme: Verb Your Enthusiasm.
⏳May 2026 Contest: Verb Your Enthusiasm
Submissions are open for our May contest. Plus! What's ahead this month at LWS.
This month’s contest and companion prompts are inspired by and in conversation with Verb Your Enthusiasm by Sarah L. Kaufman, published in the UK by Particular...
[Fiction] Hold Still
Hold Still
By Amanda Fales
In another life, her mother drives to her family home in the fall of 1982. She is twenty-three. She packs one suitcase while her husband is at work. She does not yet know that Sarah is possible.
Sarah i...
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The writing community you've been looking for. Born in London, gathering globally. We host monthly contests, weekly prompts, daily Writers' Hour writing sessions – plus interviews, workshops, and a place to connect with creative friends.
Writer & editor of creative nonfiction. Founding co-editor of Writers’ Hour Magazine & Head of Writer Experience at London Writers’ Salon. Currently writing about the intersection of mysticism and creativity.
Writing about how writers and artists work, in three books and a twice-monthly newsletter. MAKING ART AND MAKING A LIVING is out now!
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