Welcome to The Write Spot - an online writing community offering inspiration and writing prompts to spark your writing. Click on Writers Forum for writing workshop dates (Zoom and in-person workshops), Jumpstart for writing workshops, Newsletter for writing news, and Blog for writing prompts and places to submit your writing.
Writing with Marlene is a little bit of sanctuary. —Angie
Are you a published author, new to writing, or unsure if you are a writer at all?
The Write Spot books spark creativity with prompts to enhance writing, resource information about self-care when writing about difficult subjects, and more. And they are entertaining, too!
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Free Zoom event: A place to learn and chat about writing. Details on the Writers Forum page.
Great group of people, great readings, great discussions. — Patricia
On the Zoom platform. Contact Marlene for information about Jumpstart Writing Workshops.
I enjoyed everything: the prompts, the atmosphere and the variety of writing. — Sherry
Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page. Waste Not By Desiree Cooper “Time stretching languid in the humid afternoon tastes like caramel cake. It smells like pine needles in the rain.” —excerpted from “Waste Not,” by Desiree Cooper, River Teeth, Beautiful Things, September 29, 2025 Desiree Cooper is the author of the award-winning collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Best Small Fictions 2018, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and Best African American Fiction 2010. Her essay, “We Have Lost Too Many Wigs,” was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2019. “Using truth and wit, Desiree Cooper was the perfect conduit for university presses to have larger conversations about diversity and representation through books starting with their covers. Cooper, an electric speaker, is a master at navigating the tricky waters of difficult conversations by never excluding failures, but instead owning and…
