Write about change. The fear, the drama, the mystery. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.

Nietzsche is brought back to life in 2021, and turned loose on society for a week. Eager to get back to his rest, he has to first teach a class of philosophy, and hand out one assignment. Write about his observations, his class, and his assignment: And your first four lines of the body of your assignment. 100-ENTRANT MINIMUM, 200-ENTRANT MAXIMUM. 500-WORD ENTRY MINIMUM. YOU MUST BE A PROSE GOLD SUBSCRIBER TO QUALIFY. SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://beta.theprose.com/p/gold

Longest alliteration wins.

You and your friend find yourselves in Ciudad Hidalgo, the southernmost town in Mexico. You have to get back to Los Angeles without any money, or a car of your own. Your backpacks have food, coffee, and whiskey for five days. Your eyewear is a live feed to the reality show paying you $100k each upon your arrival in Los Angeles. You can tell no one about what you’re doing, and you have to travel up the center of the country, where you then travel the border from Manuel Benavides to Tijuana. Write about the danger, hunger, heat, and beauty, whether you pull it off or not. Make it long. $150 purse to the most riveting and shared post. YOU MUST BE A PROSE GOLD SUBSCRIBER (https://theprose.com/p/gold) TO QUALIFY. 20-entrant minimum, 25-entrant maximum.

Write a story about cancel culture and over-sensitivity destroying high art. $111 purse to the most riveting and shared post. YOU MUST BE A PROSE GOLD SUBSCRIBER (https://theprose.com/p/gold) TO QUALIFY. 15-entrant minimum, 55-entrant maximum.

Your quarantine Valentine's Day fantasy.

Write a story about going back in time and killing an infamous serial killer before committing their first murder. Make it dialogue-heavy. $64 purse to the most riveting and shared post. YOU MUST BE A PROSE GOLD SUBSCRIBER (https://theprose.com/p/gold) TO QUALIFY. 10-entrant minimum, 64-entrant maximum.

Write a poem about America.

The last one was meant for our senior partners who are writing a film. It was buffered in the wrong queue. Apologies. In lieu of this, write a story about having to retract a post you made on social media while altered, be it whiskey or a sleeping aid. The whole world has seen it, and is shocked and appalled by it, and you don't even remember posting it. 500-word + 100-entry minimums. $100 purse to the most riveting entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners and spotlighted.

Write about your most joyful memory.

Write drunk, edit sober.

Write a short story about an estranged, conniving elf who conspires against Santa.

You're dead. Trapped as a ghost in your own house, watching your widowed spouse mourn your death. Someone begins to comfort your spouse and you watch the two begin developing intimate feelings for one another. Your death was ruled a freak accident, but in reality you were murdered. Solve your murder and help your spouse realize their new lover is the person who killed you. 300-word minimum.

You're DJT and just ate magic mushrooms for the first time. Write about the next 12 hours.

Dimensions have crossed, and you wake up with the ghost of Stalin sitting calmly on the edge of your bed, nearly transparent. Unafraid, you sit up and have a conversation with him. Write the scene and dialogue. Anything goes. 500-word + 150-entry minimums. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners and spotlighted.

Adapt a Brothers Grimm story for life in the ghetto. The harsher the consequences, the better. 400-word minimum.

You're playing cards with your favorite Dostoevsky character when they catch you cheating.

Write about sex. Don't be shy.

That time you were abducted.