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Writing Prompt for February 2026
For this month’s writing prompt, we challenge you to confront the cold, reconcile with it, open your metaphorical windows and allow the snow drifts to build in your stories. How does the cold sink itself into your bones? How does the ice reflect an interior truth? What feelings does the word “February” evoke in you?
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Writing Prompt for January 2026
With the return of the monthly writing prompt series, we hope to engage readers with topical or craft related thoughts and ideas. Each month one of our editors will share a little of themselves and their writing and invite readers to write with a generative prompt. Thank you for reading and we hope your writing flows and flows.
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NYC Poetry Festival 2025
Come join LIT and The New School July 12th and 13th for the New York Poetry Society’s annual Poetry Festival weekend on Governor’s Island. Stop by The New School table number 5 for some pop up readings, Poetry RX, and mystery fun activities, and check out New School poets reading on a variety of stages on both days.
Schedule of TNS poets and events:
SATURDAY, JULY 12TH
12:30 PM: Poets House
THE BRINKLEY STAGE
Featuring New School poets Kate Millar, María Elisa Schmidt along with Elaine K. -
LIT Magazine at The New York City Poetry Festival
We are overjoyed to join with The New York City Poetry Society this weekend for the 13th annual Poetry Festival on Governors Island!
LIT Magazine will be featured on the Beckett Stage stage starting at 1pm Sunday, July 14th with TNS Writing Program compatriots 12th Street Journal, and The Inquisitive Eater.
We will also have our own table with the vendors for the whole weekend so please come find us to say hi on Saturday and Sunday and pick up some back issues of LIT, and some fun prompts and activities for folks to create and share their own poetry with us.
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LIT 37, Suddenly Summer 2024
Get ready for the green energy. Our Suddenly Summer issue arrives online this Wednesday July 3, 2024. Love LIT? Then join us in person with TNS publication compatriots, 12th Street Journal at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island Sunday July 14th at 1pm at the Beckett Stage. Afterwards, come say hi at the New School Table and pick up some back issues of LIT and 12th Street to read on the ferry, at the beach, or any green grass slice of heaven on earth you happen to find yourself in this summer. We are all about summer.
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LIT Monthly Writing Prompt: June Edition
by Richard Berwind, Managing Editor
Hello to the LIT community!
June is my birth month, so I find it very fitting that this month I am able to share something that inspires me in my writing and hope that it will inspire yours.
Every year, I find myself crying around the time of my birthday. It comes sporadically; a random insertion of grief and pain on days that should otherwise feel renewing. I spend days on end researching, looking up the who, the how, and the why this phenomenon happens, as if understanding its deepest mechanisms will make the sudden onset of grief roll away into the summer haze.
