Everyone Gets a Soapbox
ViMs July Prompt
The Bell Tolls for You!
Oyez, oyez, oyez! Hear ye, hear ye!
Undust your bell. Get your cause on. The soapbox is yours.
In honor of International Town Criers Day (second Monday in July), and with a nod to the International Day of Friendship (30th July).
A simple request, if you will.
What truth will you holler from the hilltops? What connection will you celebrate—or denounce?
From poetic proclamations celebrating an unlikely friendship to tales of traitors and betrayal. Personal, political, or fantastical, let it ring loud and clear.
Your cry can be lyrical or furious, heartfelt or hilarious. Heady or toxic: A eulogy to a lost friendship or a love letter to the ones who’ve stood beside you when it mattered most. Or take the soapbox literally. What’s your cause? What hill will you die on? Who will you defend until the bell tolls? Who or what would you drag into the metaphorical town square for public reckoning and retribution?
Your submission can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or anything in between.
Start: July 6, 2025
Deadline: July 31st, 2025
Voting: August 1-5, 2025
Prizes are:
First Place - $5
Second Place - $2
Third Place - $1
** NO AI-GENERATED (written, ok, Vicki...) SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED IN THE VOTING **
Good Luck, and the judges are looking forward to reading your entries.
An example by our lovely Judey!
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Ahhh I'm too late to this party, I think! 🤔
I hope I didn't miss the deadline: https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/the-bell-tolls-for-truth%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Hi there, here is my submission: https://shopping-feedback.today/writers/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off-mrg4z0zvr%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Here's me squeaking in just before the deadline with a last minute entry. https://shopping-feedback.today/humans/god-s-garden%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Ooooooo, I'll have to see if I've got enough vigour to drum something up for this month!! Love this MC and belated congrats on second place on the leaderboard a few weeks ago!!
In between doing pieces for the Summer Writing Series challenges. I spewed this out. Then refined it. I am not sorry. Though it's long. So maybe sorry for that? https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/gospel-according-to-the-anti-sycophant%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
I created an entry. Hopefully, this is what you are looking for. I constantly second-guess myself. https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/camouflage-x32iig0u4y%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
My entry: my life was a soapbox https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/shackled-to-my-anxiety%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
I do like a good soap box speech….I’m thinking already Congratulations on your leaderboard placement
Be.ow is a gory tale of a rookie police officer’s first night on the job and the decomp call he was sent to. It is a harsh tale of the realities of mortality and the horrors that can accompany a badge and a gun. My father was a cop, I am a retired 911 dispatcher, and my second so is a mortuary services driver so it hits home in a ghastly way. Trial by liquification. https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/dead-of-night-h25ls0dho%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E I just wrote this today but a,so entered it into the Leave the Light on Challenge. Enjoy. Try not to puke.
I will never get off this soapbox https://shopping-feedback.today/critique/a-moment-on-my-soapbox-zggpp0p71%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Viva la revolucion....quiet rebellions begin, my entry. https://shopping-feedback.today/theSwamp/an-allergy-to-peace%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Oyez...I love this a lot...a break from the other soapbox of challenges...cussing time. Be back soon, dahling MC
Here is mine https://shopping-feedback.today/theSwamp/think-7f14wi016i%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Thank you for another prompt once again! This is an intriguing one. My mind is empty right now, but I'll do what I can to write an entry, haha 😅 I'll give Judey's a read; it's always great to have an example and inspiration. 💛
This doesn't seem to be my kinda thing but I'm excited to read the entries!
This piece is NOT an entry into the challenge since I am usually one of the judges... and it starts tomorrow. However, I was nudged to write it by this prompt, so sharing here anyways. MoCo, let me know if I should delete it! https://shopping-feedback.today/theSwamp/a-denunciation%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Nice! Sounds like a unique challenge. I missed a few of VIMs challenges. Gonna bookmark this one.
I will look into my paint bucket list of photos from my past and perhaps write about my ugly ex. 😂😂😂
Hmmm does that mean no Ai photos or video editing by Movie Maker Pro editor?
Maybe I can enter an unofficial non-entry entry to this unofficial challenge?
Harken ye for whom the dog doth bark Be ye man, feline, or predatory shark
Sounds like fun.
I'll share it on the July Unofficial story and you will get mine in due course