by SM CADMAN
“At the last hour of a wine crazy night in my drumbeat heart the love of God awoke.”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
“I am consumed by desire. I intend to do what is right but action gives off smoke like fire. I would be harmless like the monk who will not handle a water gourd,…”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
Can I Involve You? By Finn Janning I took the elevator up to the third floor. Normally, I would have taken the stairs in order to get a bit of exercise. But normal doesn’t exist anymore. Did it ever? I just turned thirty-seven and I am feeling slightly lazy after having written books for the last decade or so. Not that writing books is a cushy job. Quite the contrary. It’s freaking hard work. It’s just that I do it […]
Categories: Art, Photography, & Design, Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Art, artists, Barcelona, Castellano, Castilian, Catalan, children, Danish, Denmark, Finn Janning, Geordanna Cordero-Fields, Life, love, Love and relationships, Markus Spiske, marriage, PhD, Philosophy, short story, Spain, Spanish, Unsplash
by SM CADMAN
“I took the dust of a mahatma’s feet. She revealed what lives beyond any ordinary desire, beyond what can be measured—the counting of sandalwood beads or syllables,…”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
40 Spectacular Holiday Creative Writing Prompts! From Christmas to Hanukkah to Kwanzaa to Islam, including secular prompts too, we’ve got you covered. Write on! ;)
Categories: Creative Writing Prompts, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Christian, Christmas, Creative Writing Prompts, Hanukkah, Holiday, Islam, Jewish, Kwanzaa, Muslim, Secular, Writing Prompts
by SM CADMAN
“She said to me, In the Lord’s eyes men and women are equal. Before dawn rose, I knelt at the sacred fire, prayed and smeared ash in wild stripes across my forehead.”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
“Soon he will tell her that he wants a divorce, tell her that he wants to have kids. Soon he will start a new life. Change. He knows that kids are the solution. They will remember him.”
Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Barcelona, Castellano, Castilian, Catalan, children, Danish, Denmark, Finn Janning, Gaudi, Life, love, Love and relationships, marriage, PhD, PhilD, Philosophy, short story, Spain, Spanish
by SM CADMAN
“Ten thousand travelers make pilgrimage scatter ashes of the dead, float small lights in leaf boats—the arati of a loved one’s passing on, ashes to water and light into light.”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
Set in the summer of 1949, the first woman intern at a southern state hospital faces ethical and professional problems when one of her patients is threatened with lobotomy.
Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Antonio Egas Moniz, author, David Pratt, Fiction, health, History, medicine, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Nobel Prize, psychiatry, psychosurgery, short story, writer
by SM CADMAN
Remember! If you use any of these spooky Halloween writing prompts to write a short story or poem, send us what you write. We’ll publish it on the site before October 31st :)
Categories: Creative Writing Prompts, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Creative Writing, Creative Writing Prompts, Halloween, Writing, Writing Prompt, Writing Prompts
