Throwback Thursday Week #17

Morning, Prosers,

It's that time of the week again where we recap the goings-on around Prose, or as we have all grown to know it: Throwback Thursday!

It has been a whole week since we launched The Prose Collections and we have had an overwhelmingly positive response from you all! Thank you all so much for your feedback, and your patience while we iron out the kinks.

With any new update, we expect there to be bugs that we have missed; we might be pretty damn awesome, but even we aren't perfect! So, if you find any bugs, or have any questions / feedback, please get in touch.

Last week saw the first Five Friend Friday where Paul shared his piece, "The Black Dog." This week, Karen will be telling us all which piece she chose to share and why. We'd love for you all to get involved; remember, if you don't want your work to be shared, please use the hashtag #noshare.

Given the launch of one of our biggest updates ever, we have seen a massive increase of users joining us. We have had the biggest amount of sign-ups this week since the birth of Prose. We are growing at such an incredible rate that we can hardly contain our excitement; it's such a wonderful thing to watch fellow creatives congregate and get behind our passion and what we want to achieve. We'd like to remind you all about the Introduction Portal, if you're new here, introduce yourselves and if you're a seasoned Proser we know you'll be on hand to make them feel at home.

The Letters From Prison initiative is going absolutely amazingly. Giving the women of HMP Peterborough a voice, is the most rewarding part of our jobs to date. We have had one resident tell us that since she started doing this, her mental health has improved, the health professionals are decreasing their visits with her, she has stopped self-harming, and she has noted a huge increase in her confidence. This is all down to the feedback you guys have given her. We are so touched at the generosity of this community, as are the inmates.

The staff of the prison are beginning to get involved and Monday will see a blog piece written by one of the prison guards; but, while we have your attention, there is one quote we must share with you now, straight from their fingers and something that sums this all up so nicely.

"Sometimes all it takes is for someone to believe in you to make a difference."

Not only do we feel this perfectly sums up how we feel about the Letters from Prison initiative, but how we feel about Prose too. A huge community coming together, relating to one another, encouraging and supporting one another, believing in one another, regardless of what our backgrounds are, our beliefs, our religion and race, our sexuality. 

What truly shines through here is our huge love for words, the power they have to change a life, and the relationships we build herein.

More power to you guys, our absolutely awesome community. Words cannot convey how much each and every one of you mean to us.

Until next time, Prosers.

Prose.