#PWWritingPrompts
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend an anthology of concrete poetry edited by Nancy Perloff and #PWWritingPrompts on limitations, attic finds, and trends in etiquette. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a guide on how to write about grief by Sam Meekings and #PWWritingPrompts on early memories, character names, and frames. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a craft book on writing as a spiritual act by Sue Monk Kidd and #PWWritingPrompts on epic poems, frenetic energy, and rabbit holes. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a diary on the process of translating literature by Daniel Hahn and #PWWritingPrompts on waiting, disturbances, and frenemies. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz and #PWWritingPrompts on making an effort, absurdities, and status. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays and lectures by Flannery O’Connor, and #PWWritingPrompts on poetic fruit, mythos, and unreliable settings. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic anthology of essays on women poets and their influences edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, and #PWWritingPrompts on letdowns, mediums, and sibling rivalries. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays on the rich worlds created by marginalized writers by Patty Krawec, and #PWWritingPrompts on soundscapes, old skills, and embarrassments. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic guide on the writing process and the artist’s identity by Brenda Ueland, and #PWWritingPrompts on sharing the air, shorelines, and imperfect objects. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays on the wonder of science and poetry by Maria Popova, and #PWWritingPrompts on bodega ramps, odd jobs, and artificial lighting. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
September 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a new memoir on the will to write by Miriam Toews, and #PWWritingPrompts on sparrows, descents, and work life. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
August 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays reviewing books by Kevin Power, and #PWWritingPrompts on truths, typos, and body swaps. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
August 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a poetry anthology spanning a century edited by Kevin Young, and #PWWritingPrompts on imagery, aging, and censorship. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
August 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book of essays by Jorge Luis Borges, and #PWWritingPrompts on quiet moments, portraits, and a revisit. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
August 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a craft book on experimentation by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante, and #PWWritingPrompts on gratitude, letters, and lasting impressions. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
July 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic anthology on craft and the writing life edited by Katrina Roberts, and #PWWritingPrompts on getting close to nature, crisis moments, and the elasticity of time. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
July 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book on the writing life by Chuck Palahniuk, and #PWWritingPrompts on visual poetry, plastics, and eternal wishes. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
July 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book on poetic forms by Lucy Alford, and #PWWritingPrompts on summer dualities, materialists, and relationship dynamics. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic book on crafting narrative by Madison Smartt Bell, and #PWWritingPrompts on magic nets, aging, and gains from losses. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
June 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a multicultural creative writing discourse edited by Sherry Quan Lee, and #PWWritingPrompts on opinion polls, double-booking, and generational storytelling. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic encyclopedia on poetry forms by Miller Williams, and #PWWritingPrompts on postcard poems, typos, and rehearsals. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
June 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a classic essay collection on the writing life by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, and #PWWritingPrompts on new perceptions, mending bodies, and colorful tales. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
June 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a reprinted classic on the art of the short story by Frank O’Connor, and #PWWritingPrompts on beginning in the middle, quiet endings, and drama. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
May 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a new anthology of Palestinian poetry edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi, and #PWWritingPrompts on how to live, free will, and lakes. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
May 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays on how life and art inform each other by Richard Russo, and #PWWritingPrompts on dichotomies, struggling artists, and four seasons. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
May 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM