Call For Submissions — Writing for a Cause
I write for many reasons. I write because I love telling stories; it’s a part of who I am. I write to be heard because it’s important that others read my stories. There have also been times when I’ve written for a specific cause.
Writing my novels brings me the most joy, but writing with a specific goal to educate or bring awareness to a situation has a particular type of fulfillment. When I write for a cause, my goal is to move people to action. I want them to take the next step in their exposure to the cause and hopefully act in a way that is in alignment to their personal values.
There’s never a shortage of negative events happening in the world, but with the passing of the young woman in Iran after being arrested for not properly covering her hair, I thought this would be a good time to talk about writing for a cause.
You can take any approach to this prompt. Talk about a time you’ve written for a cause. You can talk about the significance of writing for a cause and how and why this informs your writing. Maybe writing for a cause is not your thing. You can talk about that, also.
Same rules as always:You can submit to this or ANY of our past writing prompts. Just scroll through our previous newsletters. They’ll be marked “Call for Submissions.”If you’re already a writer for CRY, go ahead and submit.Be as creative as you want in your submissions. As long as you stick to the topic, we’ll consider it.Just because you submit doesn’t mean we’ll post. If you haven’t heard back from us in three days, consider that a pass.[image error]Call For Submissions — Writing for a Cause was originally published in CRY Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
