Writing

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from May. We asked, “Have you ever felt creatively stifled by responsibilities? Have you ever been amazed by a gem you hewed, just when you assumed you hadn’t created anything original at all? Cara Holman writes: It is conceivable that I would have eventually […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from April. We asked, “What favorite activity has motherhood pushed far into the reaches of your existence? How do you compensate for that absence and longing? If you still make time for hidden pleasures, how do you incorporate them into this reality? Beth Meleski […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from March. We asked, “How did the role of motherhood offer a fertile ground in which you could resolve inner conflicts? How did raising children help you to grow as an adult?” Paula Kiger wrote: Because one of the most vocal members of my […]

In this month’s essay, When Income Envy Comes Home, Valerie Weaver-Zercher writes about the envy and outrage she felt when her author/husband earned an ordinate sum of money for a speaking engagement. Have you ever defined your own writing success in economic terms? Have you ever felt jealous of those who seemed more prolific and […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from January. We asked, “Have you ever felt torn between the demands of work and domesticity and your personal need to create and write? What mountain did you have to climb to pass from a state of domestic certitude to the sometimes frightening, frequently […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from January. We asked, “Have you ever felt torn between the demands of work and domesticity and your personal need to create and write? What mountain did you have to climb to pass from a state of domestic certitude to the sometimes frightening, frequently […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from December. We asked, “Have you ever received a coveted acceptance letter or honor for your writing? What about a painful rejection? How did it impact you and those around you?” Cara Holman wrote: “Two years ago, hopes high, I posted off a query […]

Former LM Degrees of Freedom columnist, Jennifer Eyre White writes about her wishes for her family this holiday season on her blog, Having Three Kids. Read more… For my youngest child, four-year-old Kirby, I hope that Santa somehow manages to bring you what you most want for Christmas, which apparently is a “Bazookelele,” which I […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from October. We asked, “Have you ever re-read books as an adult that had been your own childhood favorites? What was the experience like the second time around compared to the first time? If you also shared the book(s) with children, how did their […]

Profiles Editor, Lisa Sadikman writes about the pleasures of “Going Under” in The Monthly, a regional East Bay, CA magazine. I love going under. Under water. Under warm blankets. Especially under anesthesia. For the hours I am gone, I don’t fret about wrinkles, I don’t worry about how my daughter is doing at school, I […]

Literary Reflections is pleased to announce that, beginning this month, we’ll be selecting one writing prompt response each month to feature as a short on our blog. Check out our section for more information on how to be considered for future Selected Shorts. In February’s prompt, we asked readers to “Write about something from the […]