WOTA – Page 10 – Writers on the Avenue

August challenge & Wandering Words update

Lots of great things happening for Writers on the Avenue this month! First, you can see the cast of our poem selected in the Muscatine County Arts Council Wandering Words contest over at the City of Muscatine blog. The poem will be stamped into new cement around town as sidewalk squares are laid or repaired. What a great way for Muscatine to show that it is a good home for the literary arts.

Join us for our next monthly meeting on Tuesday, August 9, from 6 – 8 p.m. in the Student Center lounge on the Muscatine Community College campus. Bring a couple pages of a work to share, or cook up a poem, story, essay, or song using our word challenge. The words we generated at the last meeting are:

Equipment
Birth
Plug
Landscape
Reminiscing
Frantic
Bubbles
Wonderment
Etch
Musician

Have fun, and we can’t wait to see what you come up with!

July Word Challenge

At our June meeting, we brainstormed this list of words for next month’s word challenge:

Fireworks
Useful
Pudding
Tatter
Help
Fact
Jazz
Barn
Magnificence
Rumbled

Intertwine these into a song, poem, essay, story, or mixed media work of your choice, and bring copies to our next meeting on Tuesday, June 12, from 6 – 8 in the Student Center at Muscatine Community College. Come back to this page to hear what people have done with previous prompts!

Prompts

For our May word play, we generated a list of nouns and a list of verbs. Your challenge is to pick one noun and one verb and build a story, essay, poem, or song around them.

Nouns

mountainside, sombrero, rain, pocketbook, speaker, violin, driver, frost

Verbs

elude, charge, linger, meet, start, change, taste

Bring your work to the next meeting. We look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!