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Results of the First Dreamers Flash Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. In a flash story, it’s important to make every word count…

Cottage in the woods

Results of the 2019 Dreamers Writing Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home. In the United States, Dreamers is a term …

To be in the Summer **CONTEST WINNER**

シェイクスピア閉じて夏を志す | I closed poems of Shakespeare | And I made up my mind | To be in the summer

Therapeutic Writing Prompts

Therapeutic Writing Prompts

– Healing Writing Prompts –
 Healing Writing

A collection of therapeutic writing prompts from well-respected therapeutic writers and healers. These creative writing prompts, pulled from our favourite therapeutic writing books and articles, focus on both healing writing and on writing creatively. Feeling sad and interested in sad writing prompts? Looking to express your emotions? Then this is the right list for you. Read More »Therapeutic Writing Prompts

Writing Prompt

Writing Prompt #1

Dreamers Creative Writing Prompts: Writing Prompt #1

Here is a writing prompt, a set of seven questions that I was given at the start of my Writing the Self class Read More »Writing Prompt #1

Challenge yourself! Here are five literary magazines in Canada that accept flash fiction. Two of them run annual flash fiction/postcard story contests!

What is Flash Fiction?

What is Flash Fiction? Plus, 6 Places to Submit Flash Fiction! What is Flash Fiction? Flash fiction is defined as very short fiction, usually less than 1000 words. In some cases, less than 500, 300 or even 100 words.  Sometimes people call it “short short story” or “micro-fiction.” Other names include postcard story, fast fiction, or minute fiction. I once… Read More »What is Flash Fiction?