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April is National Poetry Writing Month, and it's time for GA's annual celebration of this event - the poetry anthology! This year, the theme was Diversity, and we had several site poets take up the challenge. We truly have some diverse poetry, and I am sure you will enjoy reading these selections as much as I did. Please show our poets your appreciation by leaving a reaction, comment, or review, and stay tuned next week for even more poetry Diversity!

April is National Poetry Writing Month, which is why we feature our annual Poetry Anthology in April. Stay tuned next week for the first batch of poems from site poets. In the meantime, let's explore poetry through prompts! PT Prompt #281: Write a poem celebrating spring. Haiku are, by tradition, about nature, but feel free to explore any form. PT Prompt #282: Write a poem about an inanimate object and bring it to life. Please include the prompt number either in your story/chapter description or title to help readers who would like to search for specific prompts. Also, please remember that stories less than one thousand words must be posted as part of a collection. If you check the subgenre 'prompt' in your story tags, then people/readers can find everything here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/subgenre/prompt/

The poetry anthology will be going live next week, so today I wanted to remind everyone of another upcoming writing event - Comicality's tribute. May 2nd would have been Comicality's 50th birthday, so we are honoring him by featuring a tribute to his memory - Coming of Age. The deadline for submissions is April 25th. Check out the guidelines here: Also coming up this year is the Secret Author contest this summer, the Creature Feature anthology this fall, followed by another Prompt Team event. Stay tuned for more information!

When I first read it, Dr. Alka had me rolling

I'm not sure @Krista would agree

That's how he gets you.

Steve preaching to his sycophants. Don't believe him!!

I have soooo many questions after reading that update I suppose that explains the dynamic between you and @Krista a bit more I don't have spring cleaning planned, but more of a whole-house purge, detoxify, deep cleaning. It's desperately needed as I can't keep up with it myself anymore, so my mom is going to help me. It will be a slow go, but we'll git 'er done eventually. The trees here are budding and the maple sap is running, so yay for maple season! It's too cold for flowers yet, but the spring bulbs are at least sprouting. Like Steve mentioned, only about a week to get in the links for the Poetry Anthology! Let's see what everyone came up with for Diversity 😁

I admit, it took me a while to get this @Parker Owens, this is right up your alley

Steve, NOOOOOOO!!! What did you do to @Slytherin LBO?

Oh we've found him

We are aware that some people found the instructions confusing. We will be clearer in future blogs. You understood the how the exercise was supposed to work just fine. The thing with these types of things, is that they don't always go how you might think they will. The important thing is that the prompt inspires people to write and participate. Navigating the twists and turns is where @Aditus and I come in. Next week, Aditus will be posting the story in it's entirety, with a beginning added by him. So what currently appears in the comments is not the entire story.

As a verb, it also means to move quickly, with small, short steps, usually to escape. When I hear that word, I always picture a crab scuttling away.

Yesterday was the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, even though it feels more like winter here. I'm looking forward to spring flowers and seeing the forsythia bloom, along with some warmer temps. Let's celebrate waking from winter's slumber with some prompts! PT Prompt #279 Describe your favorite spring flower in detail. or Write a haiku about your favorite spring flower. PT Prompt #280 Write from the POV of an animal waking up from hibernating all winter. Please include the prompt number either in your story/chapter description or title to help readers who would like to search for specific prompts. Also, please remember that stories less than one thousand words must be posted as part of a collection. If you check the subgenre 'prompt' in your story tags, then people/readers can find everything here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/subgenre/prompt/

Photographic proof that Steve is a koi murderer 😠 Here he is with Brad as his accomplice. *mike drop*

I'm the one striking a pose at the bottom 😁

We're getting down to the wire for submissions to the annual Poetry Anthology. Submissions are due March 30th, so there is about a week and a half to get your links posted to the thread in the Anthology forum of the Writer's Circle. I'm really looking forward to reading the different interpretations of "Diversity". I thought it would be fun to do another exercise using the Diversity theme. This would be a great jumping off point for poems for the anthology *hint hint* We can create a poem together, and then I'd love to see some unique creations as part of the antho. Let's explore the words behind DEI by creating an acrostic poem together. An acrostic poem spells out a word vertically from the first letters of the sentences it contains. I'll get us started with "Diversity". If there's enough participation, we can then explore "Equity" and "Inclusion". Choose a letter in "diversity" and then post one sentence starting with that letter in the comments. Differences to be celebrated. I V E R S I T Y

@Krista @wildone and I strike a pose! Guess who is who? See what I did there?

Get a room! 🙄

I couldn't have said it better! This is one of the anthology stories that have stuck with me.

Steve is contemplating his life choices.

This is why Steve has been able to get away with so much in his life. People see the cuteness and forget the shenanigans "Wook at dat face... could he really murder an entire pond of koi?" yes, he could.