Your stop for the annual poetry fic challenge!

Everyone should now have their prompt, so go forth and have fun writing in the new year.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. If you decide that the prompt isn't working for you, I'll be happy to give you another one! These are all chosen at random, so I know not every prompt is going to work out the way we hope.

A few reminders before we begin:

Here's a link to the profile for a refresher on the rules.

Sign ups will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. CST on December 31, 2025 (the time in your part of the world), and the prompts will be given on January 1, 2026.

Sign ups are open. Please comment here with your name if you'd like to participate.

Sign Ups are now closed!

As usual, my brain fog and time confusion have worked against me! How is it the middle of October?

First off, I just wanted to give a shout out to hhimring for being the only one to finish a July prompt. Great job!

Secondly, I'm sorry I dropped the ball on the sign up for the coming year.

I'll be announcing the poet for 2026 in a few, so stay tuned!

From Open Letter to the South

Let us become instead you and I
One single hand
That can united rise

From Miss Blues'es Child

If the blues would let me,
Lord knows I would smile.

From Special Bulletin

Peel peel
Peel off
The skin.

From Poem for an Intellectual on the Way Up to Submit to His Lady

Do not call me Dr.
If I get a Ph.D.
Just keep on calling me Sweetie
Cause that is good to me.

From Madrid

Put out the lights and stop the clocks.
Let time stand still.

From Shearing Time

It must be nice to be a sheep
With nothing to do but graze and sleep.

From Yesterday and Today

I miss you so bad—
There ain't no way for me
To get you out of my head.