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SWS: Instructions for Disappearing Challenge Winners
For Instructions for Disappearing, we asked for poems written like guides to vanishing. Not recipes or roadmaps, but rituals, whispers, and warnings. You gave us disappearances that were bodily and brutal, quiet and dreamlike, haunting and necessary. Some slipped away gently, others tore themselves out line by line.
By Vocal Curation Team5 months ago in Resources
SWS: The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge Winners
For The Summer That Wasn’t, we asked for stories about the seasons that fell apart before they began. About the summers where nothing went right, or worse, nothing ever really started. You delivered elegies and unravelings, ghost stories and quiet griefs. Stories soaked in nostalgia, shaped by absence, and sharpened by the weight of memory.
By Vocal Curation Team5 months ago in Resources
SWS: Things You Can’t Say Out Loud Challenge Winners
Welcome back to the Summer Writing Series, and to a challenge that asked you to cross a line most of us avoid. For Things You Can’t Say Out Loud, we invited you to give voice to the things that usually stay tucked away. The quiet fears, the buried truths, the words that sting a little too much to say aloud. From quiet reckonings and family tensions to grief, shame, and raw defiance, these poems didn’t hold back, and neither did you.
By Vocal Curation Team5 months ago in Resources
SWS: The Second First Time Challenge Winners
Welcome back to the Summer Writing Series, and to our second fiction challenge winners announcement of the season. For The Second First Time, we asked you to write about what it means to return. To revisit a moment, a place, or a feeling, and find that it’s changed. Or maybe it hasn’t, but you have. From second chances to strange reunions to quiet realizations, you delivered stories full of heart, humor, and surprise.
By Vocal Curation Team5 months ago in Resources
SWS: Light Breaks Water Challenge Winners
Welcome back to the Summer Writing Series, and to our first poetry challenge winners announcement of the season. For this challenge, we asked you to write like sunlight touching the surface. To find the stillness before the ripple, the moment where something shifts without warning.
By Vocal Curation Team6 months ago in Resources
I Wrote This Challenge Winners
It takes a different kind of bravery to tell your story out loud. For this challenge, we asked you to write something only you could say, and then actually say it, with your voice, on camera. And you delivered with truth, courage, and unforgettable moments.
By Vocal Curation Team6 months ago in Resources
I Didn’t Say That Out Loud Challenge Winners
You don’t always realize how much you’re holding in until the words start to come out. For this challenge, we asked you to write the things you don’t say out loud, and the response was overwhelming. These poems unearth fears, held-back anger, complicated love, and the kind of honesty that doesn’t always fit into conversation.
By Vocal Curation Team7 months ago in Resources
History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge Winners
This challenge was about reclaiming the erased, the rewritten, and the overlooked. The winning stories dig deep into forgotten histories and bring them to light with urgency and care. From resistance fighters and buried languages to personal reckonings and systemic silence, these writers didn’t just revisit the past, they made it speak.
By Vocal Curation Team7 months ago in Resources
Pride Under Pressure Challenge Winners
Some identities are easy to carry. Others take work. This challenge was about writing into that work. The weight of being seen. The quiet courage it takes to stay visible. Writers shared personal, honest moments of fear, love, exhaustion, and resilience, not trying to explain, just telling the truth.
By Vocal Curation Team7 months ago in Resources
I Resign From… Challenge Winners
Some roles you take on. Others get handed to you. Quietly. Without a conversation. This challenge was about saying you're done. With being the strong one. The fixer. The secret keeper. The one who never says no. We asked you to write a resignation letter to the parts of yourself that no longer serve you.
By Vocal Curation Team7 months ago in Resources
