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The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)

Max Wallis" Daily Aftershock Writing Prompts (The Aftershock Review)

Daily writing prompts from the raw edges of memory, survival, and creative reinvention. Each one designed to crack something open. For poets, memoirists, and anyone writing through the wreckage. aftershockpoetry.substack.com

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Day 70 - The Daily Aftershock - Seventh of the Seventh

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/24

Today we are looking at folklore.Write a poem about the seventh child of a seventh child; a figure steeped in myth and mystery. Play with your lines. Write seven of them.Do they walk through storms unharmed? Do they rise in a shattered towerblock whern others don’t?Do birds fall silent when they speak?What is their inheritance? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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A Scattered Set by Adam Horovitz

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/24

Editorial Note by Max Wallis - exclusive to SubstackWhat do we inherit when a loved one dies? A silver spoon, a catchphrase, a question left unanswered. In A Scattered Set, Adam Horovitz offers a poignant triptych that spans memory, exile, intimacy, and the legacy of kinship, both personal and poetic. Written in memory of his father, the great poet Michael Horovitz, the triptych traces a physical and emotional lineage through a single, recurring object: the spoon.Beginning with Maker’s Mark, we are

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Day 69 - The Daily Aftershock - You Avoid the News...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/23

Today, I invite you to write a villanelle, the poetic form that refuses to forget. With its pattern of repeating lines and tight rhyme, the villanelle lends itself to obsession, grief, survival, and transformation.A villanelle has 19 lines:* 5 tercets (three-line stanzas)* 1 quatrain (four-line stanza)* The first and third lines of the opening stanza return in a strict pattern throughout the poem.* The rhyme scheme follows: ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAAThink of poems like Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gentle

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Day 68 - The Daily Aftershock - Become your bed

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/22

Hello everyone,I’ve got a chesty cough, or potentially a chest infection, and also dealing with the post-event fatigue that comes after I do things publicly these days.Events take such a toll on me. Not just the preparation, bearing my innards on stage, but also the relief when it goes well. But then there’s the travel and the sheer number of people I’m just not used to these days.Today, while I’m resting, I want you to write a poem from that space too.What’s outside your window?What is your body

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Day 67 - The Daily Aftershock - This is not a poem

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/21

There’s a great history of poets writing poems that declare they’re not poems. From Joyce Carol Oates’ THIS IS NOT A POEM published by the New Yorker: in which the poet discoversdelicate white-parched bones of a small creature on a Great Lake shore or the desiccated remains of cruder roadkill beside the rushing highway.To Brian Bilston:Today write a poem that declares itself not a poem but becomes one in the process. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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Day 66 - The Found Poem

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/20

Write a Found Poem using text messages, news headlines, or other words that are there already in real life all around you.Perhaps words in an anatomy textbook… Or a scrambled AI summary of a voicemail.Use the words you see around you as a scaffolding for your own poem. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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Day 65 - The Daily Aftershock - Write about the time...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/19

What got you out of bed in the night to finally care for yourself?I say this with somewhat of a cough and possible chest infection.Sitting in my hotel room in Ludlow,and thinking about how for so long I was bedbound with PTSD and my parents did everything for me.And I'm still not perfectly well, but my point is that food can be such a great metaphor in poetry.You know what?I'm secretly wanting to read for issue two a poem about someone finally making the best dish they've ever made.And I'm going to

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Day 64 - The Daily Aftershock - The Journey

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/18

I’m travelling for our event in Ludlow tomorrow evening. Today I want you to think of a journey. Write it. Push it into fairytale. Where are you going? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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Day 63 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a poem that...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/17

Write a poem where every line transforms from the last, like water becoming steam, like wound becoming scar.Each line must carry over a word, an image, or a breath… but twist it, let it evolve.Let the last word of one line become the first spark of the next, not by repetition, but through transformation.Example:Let flame become hunger / hunger open the chest / chest echo with birdcall...Your turn:Choose your first image. Then follow the metamorphosis… Each turn should feel necessary, intimate, like

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Day 62 - The Daily Aftershock - A Window to Hold It

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/16

Visual poetry uses a shape to speak. Today, that shape is a sash window: Two stacked rectangles. Four lines per pane. A form that holds stillness. A form that holds breath.When trauma makes the body want to jump or freeze, form can sometimes help us stay. Now, for some, the opposite is actually true. They find the freedom of no-form liberating at a time when perhaps freedom is most needed. But I offer this simply as an alternative.Prompt:So - write a visual poem in the shape of a sash window. Use

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Day 61 - The Daily Aftershock - Write a poem with a...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/15

Write a poem that turns in the middle.Line 6 is the hinge. Everything before it leans one way; everything after swings the other.Use repetition, contradiction, or an actual word hinge (e.g. “but,” “still,” “then”).Often we use the end of a line to do this, too. It’s a definite choice. A moment of pause. A moment to catch the reader’s assumptions of what might come next. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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Day 60 - The Daily Aftershock - Write in the Language...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/14

The Language of XWhat if grief had a dialect? Or joy a grammar?Choose an abstract or emotional concept, grief, lust, silence, survival, and imagine it has its own language.Write a poem in the “language of X.” Let syntax, rhythm, and metaphor reflect what that feeling knows. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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Day 59 - The Daily Aftershock - P.S...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/13

Today I want you to write a post-script to another poem of yours, or to a person who you won’t name. What wasn’t said? What was left out of the email? What never made it into the goodbye?Sometimes, survival isn’t a declaration. It’s an afterthought that grows louder with time.Let it be your footnote to the past. Your quiet rebellion. Your breath after the door closed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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Day 58 - The Daily Aftershock - Erase your poems (to...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/12

Today I want you to take a poem you’ve already written, and redact, blackout or erase sections so that you create a new one. Try and create a shadow poem, that shows another meaning that’s still linked to the one before it. If you’re reading this on the website you can read two versions of the same poem below by me. They’re called Different Versions of the Same Thing and were published in the Courtauldian and the Ledbury Poetry Festival anthology many years ago.Thanks for reading (and listening) and

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Day 57 – The Daily Aftershock – Write the last line...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/11

If you could write the final sentence in a book, what would you say? I think we’ve all had this idea floating in our heads… What’s the final sentence that leaves a trace? Build outward from that imagined closure. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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Day 56 – The Daily Aftershock – Translate a flashback...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/10

Use the language of food, preparation, and method to re-enter a pivotal moment. Let metaphor take over. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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Our Mission at The Aftershock Review

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/09

Our Mission at The Aftershock ReviewWhy not publish every poem? Why hold trauma writing to such high standards? Here’s why.The Aftershock Review exists to champion the most urgent, skilful, and courageous writing being made in the wake of trauma, not as therapy, but as literature.We are proud to be funded by Arts Council England, supported by Crowdfunders, private donors, and a growing community of readers. With that backing comes responsibility: to uphold the highest standards of editorial

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Day 55 – The Daily Aftershock – Spell out your name...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/09

Each letter becomes a portal. Use initials, nicknames, chosen names… what does your name remember? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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September 11 by Joseph Fasano

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/08

September 11by Joseph Fasano They woke not knowing.They kissed their children goodbye in the morning dark, left a note under the roses on the table. (I’m sorry. We’ll talk about it later.) Say it: They did not know they would hold hands with strangers and have to choose nothing over fire. They did not know they would have no other winters. Listen. History is human hands, a strand of hair still stuck in someone’s buttons, and absence makes a life undone with hungers: When my friend heard her

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Day 54 – The Daily Aftershock – Begin with the word...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/08

Let resistance and contradiction shape the logic of the piece. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aftershockpoetry.substack.com/subscribe

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