This month you may have noticed some fliers on your English teacher’s door. These fliers are all about “Writetober,” a month-long event challenging students and teachers to write.
Writetober is being hosted by district Options instructional assistant Emilee Brink this year. The event is an Instagram-based writing challenge that provides a different one-word prompt every day for the entirety of October. What you write is up to you! It can be a poem, a short story or even a song.
“I’m a graduate student and an English major, and I love reading and writing, but I feel that I focus so much on my academic life that my personal joy of writing gets forgotten,” Brink said, adding that she participates in Writetober every year herself, but that this is the first time she is bringing it to the school. “I think student writing gets missed and overlooked, so this is another way students can share what they love to do.”
Student submissions may be featured in the yearbook this year. If your writing makes it into the yearbook, you could share it anonymously or receive recognition for it. It is entirely your choice! Some of the submissions may even be featured on the Falcon News website as well.
To participate in Writetober and share some of your submissions, email Brink at ebrink@fernridge.k12.or.us. You can also share your work through Instagram by tagging it with “#writetoberehs21.”
Here are the writing prompts for Writetober:
- Shield
- Arrival
- Mindless
- Ring
- Close
- Disguise
- Falling
- Loss
- Coddle
- Wounded
- Alone
- Daylight
- Shatter
- Caught
- Freeze
- Overgrown
- Reunited
- Sacrifice
- Wandering
- Scorched
- Enchanted
- Hunter
- Fear
- Tread
- Moonlight
- Frail
- Bait
- Wild
- Trapped
- Soft
- All Hallows’ Eve
