We are a biweekly essay group focused on improving our writing and getting more comfortable sharing stories and essays that may veer towards the deeply personal.
Prompt Essay Archive
March 28th, 2016: What we talk about when we talk about millennials by Laurie Penny
March 14th, 2016: Relying on Friends in a World Made for Couples by Briallen Hopper
February 29th, 2016: How I Lost My Appetite for Writing About Fat Politics by Lesley
February 16th, 2016: When Your Friend is On the Stand at the Ghomeshi Trial by Stacey May Fowles
February 1st, 2016: What's Wrong with Me? By Meghan O'Rourke
January 18th, 2016: All the lonely people by Ilia Blinderman
January 4th, 2016: The Inevitable Ugliness of Alcoholism by Katie MacBride
December 14th, 2015: Letter to Self by Juniper Marguerite Lee
November 30th, 2015: Lessons Learned From Writing a Memoir or Two by Michele Weldon
November 16th, 2015: "Are You A Thalidomide Baby?" By Courtney Gilmour
November 2nd, 2015: Things No One Tells You About Cancer by Kate Andries
October 19th, 2015: The Sanitized Stories We Tell by Sarah Bessey
September 28th, 2015: Should I Just Give Up on My Writing? By Heather Havrilesky
September 14th, 2015: The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan
August 31st, 2015: Empathy Won't Save Us In the Fight Against Oppression. Here's Why by Hari Ziyad
August 17th, 2015: Nuclear Family by Meghan Bean Flaherty
August 4th, 2015: The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun
July 20th, 2015: In Praise of Depression by Katherine Sharpe
July 6th, 2015: Women in my family have been shrinking for decades by Lily Myers
June 22nd, 2015: After Water by Susie Cagle
June 8th, 2015: The Reality of Being a Woman in Comedy by Jess Beaulieu
May 25th, 2015: The Hunter and the Swan by Patti-Kay Hamilton
May 11th, 2015: Wallflower, Late Bloomer by Christa Couture
April 27th, 2015: Recalling Painful Lessons in Forgiveness by Margo Steines
April 13th, 2015: Casa Azul Cripple by Emily Rapp
March 30th, 2015: In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman in Any Boys' Club by Molly Lambert
March 16th, 2015: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
March 2nd, 2015: This Old Man by Roger Angel
February 18th, 2015: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
February 2nd, 2015: Friends with Benefits by Kate Axelrod
January 19, 2015: Under the Table by J. E. Buntin
January 5, 2015: Trans, but not like you think by Thomas Page McBee
December 8, 2014: Good People by David Foster Wallace
November 17, 2014: Leaving Early by Holly M. Wendt
November 3, 2014: In Attawapiskat by Louise Bernice Halfe
October 16, 2014: Further Away by Jonathan Franzen
September 29, 2014: Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response. By Roxane Gay
September 15, 2014: What I learnt from Fitbit about the world around me by David Sedaris
September 2, 2014: We Have Known Boys (But None Have Been Bulletproof) by Stacia L. Brown
August 20, 2014: I’m having an abortion this weekend by Jenny Kutner