Write About: What's On Your Mind
Workshop Writing Prompts & MUCH MORE
There’s a lot in this post.
First you’ll find the usual weekly writing prompts from last week’s in-person workshop. The workshop brings together people across divides of housing, economic position, beliefs, race, and culture. In those gatherings, beauty unfolds week after week. We write, read aloud, and sit with a fellowship with a mixture of creative revelation, tears, and laughter.
Then a series of updates:
About an upcoming printed magazine from the workshop — and how you can be involved.
The Community Needs Hub showcases different real-person giving opportunities. Update: Qiana’s big need was met with your help!
Then an invitation to speak up in partnership with York County Prayer.
This Week’s Writing Prompts
For each group of writing below, select one prompt and write for 10-15 minutes.
Writing 1
The best kind of laughter is…
Imagine and write about your perfect _______. (Day, meal, conversation, etc.)
What’s on your mind this week?
Writing 2
Write about helping. Either helping others or being helped yourself.
Posting on social media is… (Finish the sentence.)
List five things you own. Write about them. Describe their importance in your life.
Writing 3
Write about “street smarts” versus “book smarts.”
Write about getting out of a bad situation.
What does “holy” mean to you?
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Share your writing:
Post it in the comments, publish it somewhere online (and let us know), or email for publication here.
📕 Workshop Printed Magazine
We are working on a printed anthology magazine of some of our work from the workshop. All current and former workshop writers are invited to submit multiple pieces of writing. (Plus an option for those who have never attended.)
Once printed, copies can be sold by people facing homelessness. They will keep 100% of the sale price.
Learn about the print project, see suggested prompts, donate to the cover the significant printing costs, and see how you can be involved:
❤️ Community Needs
Visit the Community Needs hub, where you can see practical needs and actionable opportunities from people within the Speak Up community who are facing homelessness and hardship.
NEED MET: You helped Qiana with rent and utilities and she avoided eviction!
Update from Qiana:
I want to send a heartfelt thank you to you for your support and willingness to help us! To those that donated to help my son and I from losing our new home.
Thank you so much to Our New Community. God Bless You All!
🔥 York County Prayer: Global Week of Prayer
Launching in six days in Rock Hill, SC, from York County Prayer: a creative public prayer space that will be a place of pilgrimage, encouragement, community, creativity, discipleship in prayer, presence, and discovery. Open to everyone.
And starting in exactly one week, YCP will be anchoring the local expression of the The Global Week of Prayer. This is an international initiative from 24-7 Prayer that brings together tens of thousands of people from over 200 nations, praying in unity for seven straight days.
Those in Rock Hill, Charlotte, and surrounding areas: JOIN!
Learn about the Global Week of Prayer in this area and sign up for a slot to pray in person in the new prayer room in Rock Hill:
⭐️ Support Speak Up
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