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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 53 – The Daily Aftershock – Write an apology from...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/07

Let the bent spoon, the weather, the camera, the car, or the hospital bed say sorry. What would it mean? 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 52 – The Daily Aftershock – Give your ghosts...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/06

Today write a list poem or prose poem about who or what haunts you. Make them a cast of characters. Where do they live? 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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How Our Love Ends by Joseph Fasano

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/06

A Note from the Editor, Max WallisIn How Our Love Ends, Joseph Fasano brings his characteristically cinematic lyricism to bear on the quiet catastrophe of parting. Here, love’s dissolution is neither rupture nor drama, but a final, tender surrender. A red dress. A blue suit. A single silent touch in the kitchen. Fasano sketches the end of a shared life not through argument or betrayal but through ceremony and near-mythic ache. The poem’s final image, “the deep-grooved gloves of falconers / that have

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Day 51 – The Daily Aftershock – Write the lie that...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/05

Explore the comfort of necessary illusions… something you told yourself to survive, even if it wasn’t true.Read more below: 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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Pride 2025 - Wide Awake by Dale Booton

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/05

This Pride we’re spotlighting some of the queer poets from The Aftershock Review: Issue One. We’re starting with Dale Booton (@dale.booton).Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.“I chew the night’s garnish/squelch questions like lemon around my teeth/until the bitterness seeps into split gums”This is what aftermath looks like when you keep going. When the city frays. When love and pain blur into one another and you’re left awake with the wreckage.“love/pain I have been unable/to tell

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Day 50 - The Daily Aftershock - Write the one rule...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/04

Dear Daily Aftershock readers and podcast listeners, the next week of prompts will be short ones as I deal with other Aftershock work and stuff in my personal life.Today I want you to write a poem based on a rule you broke, and what it gave you.This could be literal, like breaking Lockdown in search of friends or family or company.Or it could be emotional: letting someone new love you, when you thought all was lost.Forget the morality involved in these things and instead find the poem that begs to

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Day 49 - Write a Self Cento

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/03

It’s Dr. Anna Percy here with Day 49 of the Daily Aftershock and a brand new prompt for you.You may have heard of the form cento in poetry. Traditionally, you borrow a line from a different poet for each line. But today, I’d like you to make a self cento, a cento made entirely from your own words.Use your own poetry, notebooks, text messages, Facebook statuses, Instagram captions, even a bit of a shopping list. The more unexpected and creative the source material, the more interesting the

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Day 48 - Ask yourself questions you don't want to answer

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/02

Today consider this poem by Linda Gregg:NEW YORK ADDRESSThe sun had just gone outand I was walking three miles to get home.I wanted to die.I couldn’t think of words and I had no futureand I was coming down hard on everything.My walk was terrible.I didn’t seem to have a heart at alland my whole past seemed filled up.So I started answering all the questionsregardless of consequence:Yes I hate dark. No I love light. Yes I won’t speak.No I will write. Yes I will breed. No I won’t love.Yes I will bless

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Day 47 - Write a psalm to the body

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/06/01

The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today, I want you to write a psalm to your body.Not a perfect body. Not a past body. The body you’re in today.This isn’t about gratitude, unless it is.It doesn’t have to be healing. Or loving. Or soft.It just has to be yours. Write like your body is listening… from the arch of your foot to the molar you cracked last year.Start with a sentence that begins: "O

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Day 46 - Write an ekphrastic poem from a song (Dr...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/31

The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.It’s Dr Anna Percy here with your prompt for Day 46 of the Daily Aftershock. You may have heard of an ekphrastic poem, a poem written in response to a work of art. The most famous example is John Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn. But ekphrasis isn’t limited to visual art, it can respond to any art form. Today, I encourage you to free write to a song. Choose one

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Day 45 - Write from when your personal gravity upturns

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/30

Today I want you to lean into surrealism.Write the moment the laws of your personal gravity shift, even slightly. What tilts? What floats up or out of reach? What pulls you back?Does your kettle float to the ceiling mid-boil?Do memories begin drifting up like balloons you forgot to tie down?Does your body fall sideways through the hallway mirror?Does your name slide off your chest and land with a clink on the tiles? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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Day 44 - Write about the part of your body that...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/29

Write about the part of your body that remembers the most.Is it your shoulders, always bracing? Your stomach, tightening before bad news? Your hands, still remembering someone else’s?Zoom in. Let this body part speak. What textures does it crave or fear? What does it hold, hide, rehearse? How has it changed over time?Don’t describe the body in general. Choose one specific part and stay with it. Let it narrate a memory, even if you don’t fully understand it yet.Your body remembers things your mind

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Day 43 – A Disappeared Object, with Dr Anna Percy

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/28

Daily Aftershock #43 – A Disappeared Objectwith Dr Anna PercyIt’s Dr Anna Percy and I’m here with another prompt.I’d like you to think about an item, a product, or a piece of equipment that you used to use all the time, or that you saw someone else use all the time, but that no longer exists, or you can’t get it where you live.It might be something like what I was thinking about: the brand Spectacular nail polishes I used to have on my shelf as a young girl. They were the first kind of makeup my mum

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Day 42 - Write about an object you can’t throw away.

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/27

Write about an object you can’t throw away. Maybe it’s useless now. Maybe it’s chipped, faded, hidden in a drawer. But it remains. A breadcrumb from a past version of you. A witness.Describe it in full: texture, smell, temperature, where you keep it, what it refuses to let go of. Don’t name the emotion. Let the object carry it.Examples:The cinema ticket folded four times in the back of a notebook.The hospital bracelet tucked behind a mirror.The hoodie you only wear when nobody’s looking.Some things

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Day 41 - Write something so specific it could only be...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/26

The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.That’s one of the quiet, enduring magics of writing. The more precise the detail, the more it hums with life. And the more it hums, the more it echoes.Not: a cup of tea on a grey morning.But: the chipped Manchester United mug your old friend left behind, the one you still use because it fits your hand exactly, and because you haven’t quite brought yourself to

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Day 39 - Make a collage out of phrases you've...

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/24

Thank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.The Aftershock Review is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Today I want you to write a poem that’s made up from fragments of conversations. Use dialogue between voices in the poem. Let their dialogue show not tell. Then end the poem with a twist - let the interior mind of the narrator of the poem reveal something unsaid in the

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Day 38 – Free Association / Freefall

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/23

Thank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.After yesterday’s stillness, today I want you to freewrite.Let language slip the leash. Let the mind spiral or stall or dissolve. Follow the strangeness. Let syntax fracture. Let one word lead to the next like stepping stones you haven’t tested for weight. Let memory interrupt. Let dissociation name itself. What colours show up? What textures? What breaks the pattern?Write fast. Write without looking back.This is

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Day 37 - Stillness

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/22

If you’ve been meaning to order The Aftershock Review, now’s the moment.I’ll be doing one final post run tomorrow, but after that, I won’t be able to ship any for a week. So if you want your copy soon, grab it today:Thank you, always, for the love you’ve shown this magazine. Every order means the world.Today I want to talk about stillness. And actually, today’s writing prompt isn’t really a writing prompt. What I want you to do is go about your day. Go about your day and don’t actively write. But

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Day 36 - Write your lexicon!

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/21

What’s your lexicon? What’s your language? What’s your personal dictionary of survival?We all carry secret vocabularies, words that mean more to us than they do to others. Maybe tide means relapse. Maybe bees means danger. Maybe red jumper means the day someone you loved died.Today’s prompt is to write a personal lexicon poem. You can structure it as a list, a prose block, or a series of definitions. You can write it alphabetically. You can be raw, defiant, strange, surreal, tender, coded. You could

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For Those Who Wake in Fear by Joseph Fasano

The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt) ·

2025/05/21

Editorial Note by Max WallisFor Those Who Wake in Fear doesn’t console, it steadies the reader. This is a poem for anyone who’s made it back from the dark. Joseph Fasano names the unspeakable with a featherlight touch: “You have felt it slip your heart / like a trembling wren.” That image alone could undo you. But the poem doesn’t stop there. It exhales. It reminds us that if we’ve “carried what we had to,” through the madness and silence and rupture, then we are already whole, already singing. This

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