NPR’s Books We Love Creativity Prompt Challenge on Brave & Reckless

Every December, I take a deep dive into National Public Radio’s Books We Love list. Books are endlessly fascinating to me and NPR’s recommendations guide my holiday shopping as well as my To Be Read/ Listened To list for the upcoming year.  I am starting off 2024 with 40 creativity prompts drawn from the books NPR’s staff loved in 2023. …

Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s 5th Anniversary Creativity Prompt Challenge

In November of 2018, Kindra M. Austin and I took a leap of faith and launched Indie Blu(e) Publishing with the publication of our first anthology, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art. We Will Not Be Silenced would not have been possible without the …

Now Available from Indie Blu(e) Publishing: Darker Objects by Christine E. Ray and Friends

Darker Objects would not be possible without the involvement of Go Dog Go Cafe baristas Michael Erickson, Devereaux Frazier, Stephen Fuller, and Megha Sood. “In this ambitious multi-genre, multi-vocal project, Christine E. Ray and Friends weave together poems, essays and visual artwork that speak of grief, rage, memories, hauntings and dreamscapes. These works, as both …

Join the fun & creativity: Darker Objects Prompt Challenge

In honor of the publication of my third collection of poetry and prose, Darker Objects, I am hosting a Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge. It would be an honor and a pleasure to post your prompt responses on Brave & Reckless. I welcome poetry, prose, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, and high-res art. Options for participation Choose …

Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge

In honor of the upcoming publication of her third collection of poetry and prose, Darker Objects, Christine E. Ray is hosting a Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge for the month of October. Your prompt responses will be published on her blog, Brave & Reckless. She welcomes submissions of original poetry, prose, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, and high-res …

Promote Yourself Monday: March 27, 2023

All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!)

Promote Yourself Monday: March 20, 2023

All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!)

Promote Yourself Monday: March 13, 2023

All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!)

Promote Yourself Monday: March 6, 2023

All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!)

Promote Yourself Monday: February 27, 2023

All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!)