Deadline: March 31, 2025
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The prompt for March 2025 is:
A purgatorio prompt. Write a 10-page maximum scene or an 8-page max monologue of someone who may end up in purgatory, unless... This is the moment when they can choose an action that will either land them in heaven or hell. If they make no choice, they end up in purgatory. Think of the world we’re in now, and the choices we’re facing.
The prompt for March 2025 is:
A purgatorio prompt. Write a 10-page maximum scene or an 8-page max monologue of someone who may end up in purgatory, unless... This is the moment when they can choose an action that will either land them in heaven or hell. If they make no choice, they end up in purgatory. Think of the world we’re in now, and the choices we’re facing.
There will be one winner each month. Scripts will be submitted to the judges anonymously. Winners will receive $100 and a subscription to Bamboo Ridge Press. Woo!
A Note To Our Writers: Starting next month, I’ll be creating prompts based on a book by Timothy Snyder, ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century. It’s a small book, and you can listen to him read it on YouTube, but being familiar with the work may help you create from the prompt. I won’t be doing such prompts every month. Also, I’m not looking for political diatribes, but the human costs of tyranny on us; people living in the coming of or through the onslaught of tyranny. Be open to creating scenes of tragedy, comedy, and/or satire. —Harry Wong III