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- July 11, 2026 A lighthouse keeper's log — the final entry. Write it.
- July 10, 2026 Write for someone who has just been given a second chance they don't know what …
- July 9, 2026 A hike / splicing a rope / picaresque
- July 8, 2026 A letter arrives addressed to someone who no longer lives here.
- July 7, 2026 Write for a runaway on their first night away from home.
- July 6, 2026 An art studio / pressing grapes / wariness
- July 5, 2026 A desert oasis. Write the first person to reach it.
- July 4, 2026 Write the feeling of a name you can no longer remember.
- July 3, 2026 An aqueduct / the warning that arrived too late / clemency
- July 2, 2026 Write for a composer who has written the same piece for thirty years and cannot …
- July 1, 2026 A waiting room with no exit signs. Write what people do with the time.
- June 30, 2026 A ferris wheel / grinding teeth / penitence
- June 29, 2026 A door opens onto the wrong room.
- June 28, 2026 Write for a refugee on their first morning in a new country.
- June 27, 2026 A glade / war narrative / the gift that cannot be refused
- June 26, 2026 Someone returns a borrowed thing years too late.
- June 25, 2026 A gold rush mining camp. Write the person who has stopped looking.
- June 24, 2026 Write for a detective who knows the answer but cannot prove it.
- June 23, 2026 A candle shop / an oar / agitation
- June 22, 2026 A ship in the doldrums — no wind for weeks. Write the mood aboard.
- June 21, 2026 Write about the inheritance of a gesture — something done without knowing where it came …
- June 20, 2026 A quarry / tying a knot / the helper who needs help
- June 19, 2026 A building is empty for the first time in a hundred years.
- June 18, 2026 Write for someone who has just sold the house they were born in.
- June 17, 2026 A publishing house / a rabbit snare / confession
- June 16, 2026 A night market in Southeast Asia. Write the stall at the very end of the …
- June 15, 2026 Write for a monk who has broken his vow of silence.
- June 14, 2026 A granary / a fork in the road / obstinacy
- June 13, 2026 A season ends. Write who notices it first.
- June 12, 2026 A hotel lobby during a blackout. Write whoever is standing at the desk.
- June 11, 2026 An estuary / the ending that felt like a beginning / a clay pipe
- June 10, 2026 Write for someone carrying the last photograph of a person they loved.
- June 9, 2026 The photograph on the mantelpiece has been turned to face the wall.
- June 8, 2026 A tidal pool / stripping bark / lassitude
- June 7, 2026 An abandoned fairground. Write who came back.
- June 6, 2026 Write for a cartographer mapping a place that no longer exists.
- June 5, 2026 Write about returning to a place after twenty years.
- June 4, 2026 A river dam / a net float / the price of the answer
- June 3, 2026 A research station in Antarctica. Write the last week before extraction.
- June 2, 2026 Write for an astronaut on the first morning back on Earth.
- June 1, 2026 A boathouse / winding a clock / compunction
- May 31, 2026 An animal enters a space meant only for people. Write what it sees.
- May 30, 2026 A barbershop in a small town. Write who has just walked in.
- May 29, 2026 A windmill / a bellows / the road that only goes one way
- May 28, 2026 Write for a teacher on the last day before a long retirement.
- May 27, 2026 A clock stops. Write what happens in the silence that follows.
- May 26, 2026 A fjord / laying out a body / fortitude
- May 25, 2026 A subway car between stops when the lights go out. Write the moment.
- May 24, 2026 Write for someone who has been waiting so long they have forgotten what for.
- May 23, 2026 Picking a lock / a piece of chalk / magnanimity
- May 22, 2026 Write about a road that no longer goes where it used to go.
- May 21, 2026 A village that floods every spring. Write the day before the water comes.
- May 20, 2026 Write for a diplomat who said the wrong thing. Write the car ride after.
- May 19, 2026 An ice house / the familiar stranger / a horseshoe
- May 18, 2026 A fire has burned down to coals. Write who is still sitting beside it.
- May 17, 2026 A quarantine station on the last day of isolation. Write who is leaving.
- May 16, 2026 Threading a needle / a gatehouse / patience
- May 15, 2026 Write for a photographer who can no longer look at the photographs.
- May 14, 2026 A mistake is caught just early enough. Write the moment of catching it.
- May 13, 2026 A moor / a scythe / elegy
- May 12, 2026 The last bookshop in a city. Write the morning it opens for the last time.
- May 11, 2026 Something is inherited that no one wanted.
- May 10, 2026 Setting a broken bone / a relay station / the test that was also a …
- May 9, 2026 Write for a soldier writing a letter they don't know how to finish.
- May 8, 2026 A town the highway bypassed. Write what remained.
- May 7, 2026 A glassworks / a sail / protectiveness
- May 6, 2026 Two people say goodbye. One of them knows it is the last time.
- May 5, 2026 Write for a musician performing the same piece for the last time.
- May 4, 2026 A smokehouse / salting fish / the thing that was supposed to be simple
- May 3, 2026 A rooftop in a crowded city at midnight. Write who climbed up to be alone.
- May 2, 2026 A window is left open. Write what comes through it.
- May 1, 2026 Write for a parent watching their child leave for the first time.
- April 30, 2026 A viaduct / the map that leads somewhere else / earnestness
- April 29, 2026 A 24-hour laundromat at 4am. Write who is there and why.
- April 28, 2026 A drawer is opened that hasn't been opened in a long time.
- April 27, 2026 Translating a letter / a ropewalk / chagrin
- April 26, 2026 Write for a pilgrim who has reached the end of the road and feels nothing.
- April 25, 2026 A hospital waiting room at 2am. Write what is not being said.
- April 24, 2026 An apothecary / a clay pipe / western
- April 23, 2026 Something keeps working after the person who built it is gone.
- April 22, 2026 Write for a doctor who has just delivered difficult news. Write the drive home.
- April 21, 2026 A dovecote / the one who stayed behind / forbearance
- April 20, 2026 A crumbling theatre about to be demolished. Write whoever has the key.
- April 19, 2026 Write what a place smells like after everyone has gone.
- April 18, 2026 Charting a coastline / a fishing net / vigilance
- April 17, 2026 Write for a translator who cannot find the word they need.
- April 16, 2026 A radio station broadcasting to no one. Write who is still listening.
- April 15, 2026 An artisan / the debt that outlasted the debtor / a barrel
- April 14, 2026 The repair that keeps something running past the point it should have stopped.
- April 13, 2026 Write for a sailor watching a coastline disappear.
- April 12, 2026 A pawnshop at closing time. Write what is hardest to let go of.
- April 11, 2026 Cutting someone's hair / a heart / stoicism
- April 10, 2026 A child explains something to an adult that the adult has forgotten how to understand.
- April 9, 2026 Write for a lighthouse keeper on the last night of the season.
- April 8, 2026 An observatory / the wound that never quite healed / making a sandwich
- April 7, 2026 A border crossing at 3am. Write whoever has been waiting the longest.
- April 6, 2026 Write about the smell of a rainbow.