Mariah
“The human heart is a dark forest.” — Tobias Wolff
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“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
—Tennessee Williams
Moving on. Poetry.
Ended July 22, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
Shadows
“The memory of you emerges from the night around me.” — Pablo Neruda
Ended July 14, 2025 • 10 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
“Either it works out, or it turns into poetry.” — unknown
Poetry
Ended June 30, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
$1.00
Your mind as a house
Give us a tour. Poetry or prose.
Ended June 13, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by Mariah
Pretty Crazy
Drabble (exactly 100 words)
Ended May 24, 2025 • 8 Entries • Created by Mariah in Flash Fiction
"I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don't say."
- Virginia Woolf
Say the thing(s) no one wants to. Any form.
Ended April 21, 2025 • 12 Entries • Created by Mariah
$3.00
One man’s trash?
Using the contents of your email's junk folder, write a something that makes me laugh :) The most stylistic treasure wins.
$3.00
Double Tanka Poetry Challenge
Using 10 lines and a syllable count of: 57577 & 57577, tell a story. Most creative/descriptive wins.
Ended March 31, 2025 • 13 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
$5.00
the souvenir
Short story (500 words or less). $5 for winner, $3 for runner-up, and $2 for honorable mention.
$5.00
“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” — Gustav Mahler
Poetry or prose
Ended March 20, 2025 • 11 Entries • Created by Mariah
$3.00
Fever Dream
Take it anywhere you like, just make it exactly 200 words (a double drabble).
Ended March 10, 2025 • 8 Entries • Created by Mariah in Flash Fiction
$5.00
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
—Virginia Woolf
Create a poem out of whatever scraps you find lying around (your brain or otherwise).
Ended February 27, 2025 • 13 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
$3.00
“Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other.” —Thucydides
Write a double drabble (exactly 200 words) about an uncomfortable but necessary alliance. $5 for the winner, $3 for runners-up, and $2 for honorable mentions :)
Ended January 31, 2025 • 7 Entries • Created by Mariah in Flash Fiction
$5.00
"And so it seems I must always write you letters that I can
never send." - Sylvia Plath
Write a letter you have no intention of sending. It can be serious, funny, scathing, revealing, etc., just make it honest.
Ended January 21, 2025 • 15 Entries • Created by Mariah
$5.00
"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream." - Euripides
Poetry
Ended January 8, 2025 • 13 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
$2.00
"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream." - Euripides
Poetry
Ended January 8, 2025 • 3 Entries • Created by Mariah in Poetry & Free Verse
$2.00