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Read our latest issue of Scrap Paper: A Creative Writing Newsletter to learn about the upcoming UM-Flint Poetry Award and read the first place piece of our Love Stinks Writing Contest. We hope you enjoy!
Your ego loves
my insecurities.
My insecurity
craves your attention.
Lover of nature,
soft beam of moonlight
turned to lightning…
My adoration is like hot trash
The gunk you find in your kitchen grease trap
Mine affection is milk, forgotten in the sun
Sourdough starter way overdone
Interested in upcoming creative writing activities? Read our latest issue of Scrap Paper to learn all about them!
In this issue of Scrap Paper: A Creative Writing Newsletter, we are focusing on submission opportunities and tips. This includes our Spooktacular Writing Contest results, the upcoming Hopwood Writing Contests, and an interview with a PentaCat Press publisher! Also featured is the first place piece from our Spooktacular Writing Contest. We hope you enjoy! Scrap Paper
Your love, a sweet veneer, concealed poison’s blade,
An insidious elixir, familiar yet ominous shade,
A weapon cloaked as affection, it did cascade,
Turning my world into a sinister masquerade.
When my future father-in-law asked how much I loved his daughter, I said more than the world, and he half-smiled. He told me to remember that when I saw “him” at the reception tomorrow. I was cut off before I could ask. He will wear a black suit, as if for a funeral.
At the foot of the bed
There hangs a mirror
The space on the wall that yet
was clear:
Read our October issue of Scrap Paper to learn about upcoming submission deadlines as well as November activities like National Novel Writing Month and a virtual open mic. If you’re undecided on whether to enter Ann Arbor’s Hopwood Writing Contests, see our interview with Jina Bhagat, a 2023 Hopwood Award winner. We talked with her